When a car with 30hp clashes with one with 150, who do you guess is gonna win? I know hitpoints aren't everything, but I fear the nano hasn't got much of a chance there:-) One critical hit would be enough to kill it.
Which email client are you using at the moment? I've heard good things about chattermail, but it doesn't seem to play nice with my server. I currently use snappermail, which I really like. The downside is that it doesn't support imap idle and background downloading, which chattermail does.
I'm wondering if there are other good suggestions.
You mean the puretracks that has this in their help page:
All legal (i.e. the artist gets paid) music downloads are copy protected (Digitally Rights Managed ("DRM")). File licenses are required to recover your files should your hard drive crash. Therefore, it is important to back them up. In the Windows Media Player 9 go to Tools > Manage Licenses and back them up to a CD. which you can find at http://us.puretracks.com/content/viewer_page.aspx? cid=Help_Main_v2
You might want to try something like EVE online (http://www.eve-online.com/) might be something for you then. You gain skills by learning them, and learning continues whether you're playing or not. The amount of cash you earn in game depends on how much you play though...
There may be other games out there with such a skill training system, but I don't know of any (feel free to point them out).
If I'm not mistaken, it is literally worded as follows: You may not use the software installed on the licensed device within a virtual (or otherwise emulated) hardware system.
Which IMHO means that you're not allowed to also run the same license both on a physical PC (thus making it the licensed device) and on a virtual machine. You would be free however to buy a license specifically for running it on a virtual machine...
Don't forget that conventional rockets, also have to lift their fuel. This means that the total mass that has to be lifted is many times more than the userful payload. With a rail gun, the only losses you have are due to the inefficiency during the creation and transport of electricity, and the friction of the projectile in the barrel and with the air.
Well, while the Wii certainly doesn't look like system providing next-gen graphics, I guess the article makes an interesting point though... with development costs of modern games going through the roof, it might make perfect sense to design a simple system (from a hardware perspective) like their new console.
Also, does next-gen necessarily have to mean next-gen graphics? Or does good-enough-graphics with a fresh look on gameplay suffice?
I like the DRM on eMusic better: there is none. So far I've mostly succeeded in staying away from DRM infected music (having never bought it, but I have/had a few files I got for free), and I hope to keep it that way.
so, then what's gonna stop me from setting up a scam like this one (fake bank), cashing in, transferring the money to a few characters and deleting my character? No player will ever find out who my other character was...
Simplest way not to get scammed: - check commas and periods in market - check contents of escrow deals thoroughly - don't give money to people/corporations you don't completely trust
I'm wondering who all these EVE people on slashdot are... if you like, PM me ingame, my char is Itshaik Nantsjaryi (no, you don't have to be able to pronounce it)
All the discussion about gun control aside - in Belgium you're allowed to have certain kinds of firearms under specific conditions - there seems to be a strong link between the amount of guns per capita and the amount of accidents and crimes where firearms come into play. Without making the assumtion that any of us is wrong, I'm glad to live in a country with few firearms and a lower violent crime rate.
Keeping a gun for defense may also seem a bit silly if you know that in world war 1 or 2 (not certain), only 2 percent of trained soldiers shot at the enemies with the intent to hit them. Sane persons just don't seem to have what it takes to kill fellow human beings. The more modern armies are using special trainings to help soldiers overcome that, making more effective killing machines of them. What this proves is that, basically, you have a 2% chance of effectively firing at a criminal who threatens you unless you are an ex military. The criminal on the other hand - seeing you with a firearm - may not hesitate to put some lead in you (although a lot of them don't have what it takes either, but I think that chance is a bit lower since he may already have had some 'practice' on other victims), because he sees you as a threat... net result: one wounded/dead person, and most of the time it's not the aggressor. So much for the added safety of firearms.
Considering the ID cards... Everybody in Belgium is required to carry an ID card on them at all times. Almost everybody complies with that without complaining. It's a convenient way to prove who you are when needed. We need an ID card to open a bank account and for some transactions, we need to show it to the police if they ask us to do so. Still it isn't seen as a threat because the police rarely asked it (Only happened to me twice when I was stopped for alcohol checks, but in those cases most of you would also have had to show their drivers license). Now, there's some added information... Our ID cards are - mostly - electronic. They are simple chip cards with a pin code, which is needed to unlock some more specific information. Without the pin code it just shows a picture, name and address information, birthdate and SSN. Note that knowing a SSN isn't any problem over here, because you can't do anything with just that. This allows us to access the information that the government keeps on us, and check the logs of who accessed which information. All you need to do is put your card in the cardreader, surf to the government website, enter your PIN, and you're authenticated. It also allows us to request some documents, sign documents electronically, sign e-mails,... The card isn't often used for signing yet, but I'm certain that will happen more and more in the future, since your electronic signature (when done with your eID) carries the same weight as a signature on a sheet of paper.
The ID cards don't contain any information on your religion, or information which the government didn't already have. What keeps the government from just keeping a database with all the data you don't want them to have, and using that as they see fit? And ID card is just something you can use to prove your identity, when you need or want to do it. It also makes it a bit harder for others to impersonate you, and apply for a credit card in your name, since that requires your ID card if I'm not mistaken.
Apparently, there are some problems with certain servers (malformed XML), and there's no support for chat rooms yet. This is not really google's fault if that's true, since it's the other server that are sending out the malformed XML, and google seems to use strict checking...
I guess the lacking features will be added later, but it would have been nice to have that already.
Right... The system will notice that multiple copies of said license plate are around, immediately warning the police of the existence and locations of 'compromised' license plates. They'll be hunted down and apprehended very easily.
They would have a better chance using a legitimate license plate, or rather, stealing one from a car in a long term parking, because it would take some time for these license plates to get noticed. This would most likely not happen before they could do whatever they are up to.
I guess I've been out of the industry so long that I foget that Windows admins take hourly or daily crashes for granted.
Sorry, but the companies where that happens should really hire competent people instead of letting the secretary manage their IT infratructure. We use winxp, but crashes are extremely rare (say... 1 per year or so). Severely restricting users' privileges to mess with the system helps a lot of course...
If you use decent hardware, and install the OS + software correctly, windows XP can be rock stable too, just like linux (although the latter one tends to be a bit more forgiving in certain circumstances).
(OK, now mod me down with this if you're a linux zealot)
At least they don't have too many of their space crews going KABOOM on takeoff or landing;-) When I would have to choose between takeoff/landing in an american or in a russian vehicle, I'd gladly trade some of the comfort for a better chance of returning in one piece.
Gotta love their safety record when it comes to manned space travel...
Just like you I vote my conscience, and my conscience says that homosexuality is a sin
Well let's see... if you really want to be so short-sighted, here are some more things for you to preach:
1. 'You shall have no other gods before Me.' Let's just start discriminating people with different beliefs, or force them to become christians, pretending to have the one and only divine answer.
2. '...Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above...' Isn't Jesus supposed to be at his Father's side in heaven? Then why do we see statues and crosses all over the place in every church? Isn't that a conflict with the 2nd commandment?
3. 'You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain.' I guess most of us can adhere to that one
4. 'Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.' You see quite a lot of christians, a lot of those who are so much against those 'sinful gays', who don't seem to mind this one.
5. 'Honor your father and your mother.' Seems easy enough, but still I see a lot of elderly people who are being put into homes, and neglected by their nice, church-going children.
6. 'You shall not murder.' no comment on this one...
7. 'You shall not commit adultery.' I still haven't seen any mention of gay people until now, but quite a lot of people cheat on their partners, while still claiming to be christians.
8. 'You shall not steal.' obvious enough...
9. 'You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.' It would be a very nice world if there would never be a false accusation, but hey, it's not like that's a reality
10. 'You shall not covet your neighbour's house; you shall not covet your neighbour's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbour's.' In this one, a male/female servant is even put on the same level as his wife, when it comes to how bad it is...
As far as I remember these 10 commandmends are very important in christianity, and yet people don't make too much fuss about most of them. Homosexuality on the other hand, scares them, and therefor they hate it so much.
I rather let everybody make their own decisions. If someone discovers (or decides, for those of you who don't believe they just ARE gay) that they are gay, they won't start harrassing straight men/women, but instead find other people in the same situation, so you can stop being afraid, and remove the plate from the back of your pants:-)
My wife and I know a gay man, but why would I feel uncomfortable shaking his hand or talking to him? He's a nice person... I guess they aren't more likely to try and seduce you, than that you are likely to try and seduce a lesbian... Hmm, maybe this comparison isn't that great;-)
try a player that supports ogg vorbis instead of the MS Media Player that only supports MP3 because that makes people not look at non-MS software for that purpose while MS is in the meanwhile introducing and pushing their own format (WMA).
Winamp plays ogg vorbis files just fine for quite some time...
Sure... that way you're certain that big companies can impossibly screw you over (i.e. being a small developer), because when they threathen with a lawsuit, you can say: "go on, sue me... when I lose (even though I have a 99,9% chance of winning) I can easily pay the legal bills.
Or the other way around... Some big company (let's call them MicroSoft for the folks around here) does something wrong (not terribly wrong, but in the gray area of legality). If you sue them, you've got a fairly big chance of losing, especially since they have the cash to keep the trial going as far as the law allows or until they win. So, what do you do... you don't sue, and by doing so, the big money company's practices become accepted, because noone dares to sue...
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Well, of course...
:-)
When a car with 30hp clashes with one with 150, who do you guess is gonna win?
I know hitpoints aren't everything, but I fear the nano hasn't got much of a chance there
One critical hit would be enough to kill it.
Which email client are you using at the moment?
I've heard good things about chattermail, but it doesn't seem to play nice with my server.
I currently use snappermail, which I really like. The downside is that it doesn't support imap idle and background downloading, which chattermail does.
I'm wondering if there are other good suggestions.
If the only reason you ever got a woman (or man, if that's your thing) to do that is your car, then I pity you :-)
Oh, you're telling me you didn't know about that webcam in your bathroom?
Oops!
You might want to try something like EVE online (http://www.eve-online.com/) might be something for you then. You gain skills by learning them, and learning continues whether you're playing or not. The amount of cash you earn in game depends on how much you play though...
There may be other games out there with such a skill training system, but I don't know of any (feel free to point them out).
If I'm not mistaken, it is literally worded as follows:
You may not use the software installed on the licensed device within a virtual (or otherwise emulated) hardware system.
Which IMHO means that you're not allowed to also run the same license both on a physical PC (thus making it the licensed device) and on a virtual machine. You would be free however to buy a license specifically for running it on a virtual machine...
Don't forget that conventional rockets, also have to lift their fuel. This means that the total mass that has to be lifted is many times more than the userful payload. With a rail gun, the only losses you have are due to the inefficiency during the creation and transport of electricity, and the friction of the projectile in the barrel and with the air.
I guess that depends on where you put your iPhone before calling yourself :-)
You've obviously never seen a scared turtle...
Well, while the Wii certainly doesn't look like system providing next-gen graphics, I guess the article makes an interesting point though... with development costs of modern games going through the roof, it might make perfect sense to design a simple system (from a hardware perspective) like their new console.
Also, does next-gen necessarily have to mean next-gen graphics? Or does good-enough-graphics with a fresh look on gameplay suffice?
I like the DRM on eMusic better: there is none.
So far I've mostly succeeded in staying away from DRM infected music (having never bought it, but I have/had a few files I got for free), and I hope to keep it that way.
so, then what's gonna stop me from setting up a scam like this one (fake bank), cashing in, transferring the money to a few characters and deleting my character? No player will ever find out who my other character was...
Simplest way not to get scammed:
- check commas and periods in market
- check contents of escrow deals thoroughly
- don't give money to people/corporations you don't completely trust
I'm wondering who all these EVE people on slashdot are... if you like, PM me ingame, my char is Itshaik Nantsjaryi (no, you don't have to be able to pronounce it)
All the discussion about gun control aside - in Belgium you're allowed to have certain kinds of firearms under specific conditions - there seems to be a strong link between the amount of guns per capita and the amount of accidents and crimes where firearms come into play. Without making the assumtion that any of us is wrong, I'm glad to live in a country with few firearms and a lower violent crime rate.
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Keeping a gun for defense may also seem a bit silly if you know that in world war 1 or 2 (not certain), only 2 percent of trained soldiers shot at the enemies with the intent to hit them. Sane persons just don't seem to have what it takes to kill fellow human beings. The more modern armies are using special trainings to help soldiers overcome that, making more effective killing machines of them.
What this proves is that, basically, you have a 2% chance of effectively firing at a criminal who threatens you unless you are an ex military. The criminal on the other hand - seeing you with a firearm - may not hesitate to put some lead in you (although a lot of them don't have what it takes either, but I think that chance is a bit lower since he may already have had some 'practice' on other victims), because he sees you as a threat... net result: one wounded/dead person, and most of the time it's not the aggressor.
So much for the added safety of firearms.
Considering the ID cards... Everybody in Belgium is required to carry an ID card on them at all times. Almost everybody complies with that without complaining. It's a convenient way to prove who you are when needed. We need an ID card to open a bank account and for some transactions, we need to show it to the police if they ask us to do so. Still it isn't seen as a threat because the police rarely asked it (Only happened to me twice when I was stopped for alcohol checks, but in those cases most of you would also have had to show their drivers license).
Now, there's some added information... Our ID cards are - mostly - electronic. They are simple chip cards with a pin code, which is needed to unlock some more specific information. Without the pin code it just shows a picture, name and address information, birthdate and SSN. Note that knowing a SSN isn't any problem over here, because you can't do anything with just that.
This allows us to access the information that the government keeps on us, and check the logs of who accessed which information. All you need to do is put your card in the cardreader, surf to the government website, enter your PIN, and you're authenticated. It also allows us to request some documents, sign documents electronically, sign e-mails,
The card isn't often used for signing yet, but I'm certain that will happen more and more in the future, since your electronic signature (when done with your eID) carries the same weight as a signature on a sheet of paper.
The ID cards don't contain any information on your religion, or information which the government didn't already have. What keeps the government from just keeping a database with all the data you don't want them to have, and using that as they see fit? And ID card is just something you can use to prove your identity, when you need or want to do it. It also makes it a bit harder for others to impersonate you, and apply for a credit card in your name, since that requires your ID card if I'm not mistaken.
Just my 0.04 (it's a bit too much for only 0.02)
Damn they're fast today :-)
I didn't expect them to solve this issue so soon.
Apparently, there are some problems with certain servers (malformed XML), and there's no support for chat rooms yet. This is not really google's fault if that's true, since it's the other server that are sending out the malformed XML, and google seems to use strict checking...
I guess the lacking features will be added later, but it would have been nice to have that already.
Right... The system will notice that multiple copies of said license plate are around, immediately warning the police of the existence and locations of 'compromised' license plates. They'll be hunted down and apprehended very easily.
They would have a better chance using a legitimate license plate, or rather, stealing one from a car in a long term parking, because it would take some time for these license plates to get noticed. This would most likely not happen before they could do whatever they are up to.
I guess I've been out of the industry so long that I foget that Windows admins take hourly or daily crashes for granted.
Sorry, but the companies where that happens should really hire competent people instead of letting the secretary manage their IT infratructure. We use winxp, but crashes are extremely rare (say... 1 per year or so). Severely restricting users' privileges to mess with the system helps a lot of course...
If you use decent hardware, and install the OS + software correctly, windows XP can be rock stable too, just like linux (although the latter one tends to be a bit more forgiving in certain circumstances).
(OK, now mod me down with this if you're a linux zealot)
This has to be one of the funniest post I've seen to date...
:-)
An nyud mirror of a mirrordot image of a page posted on slashdot
At least they don't have too many of their space crews going KABOOM on takeoff or landing ;-)
When I would have to choose between takeoff/landing in an american or in a russian vehicle, I'd gladly trade some of the comfort for a better chance of returning in one piece.
Gotta love their safety record when it comes to manned space travel...
Just like you I vote my conscience, and my conscience says that homosexuality is a sin
:-)
;-)
Well let's see... if you really want to be so short-sighted, here are some more things for you to preach:
1. 'You shall have no other gods before Me.'
Let's just start discriminating people with different beliefs, or force them to become christians, pretending to have the one and only divine answer.
2. '...Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above...'
Isn't Jesus supposed to be at his Father's side in heaven? Then why do we see statues and crosses all over the place in every church? Isn't that a conflict with the 2nd commandment?
3. 'You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain.'
I guess most of us can adhere to that one
4. 'Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.'
You see quite a lot of christians, a lot of those who are so much against those 'sinful gays', who don't seem to mind this one.
5. 'Honor your father and your mother.'
Seems easy enough, but still I see a lot of elderly people who are being put into homes, and neglected by their nice, church-going children.
6. 'You shall not murder.'
no comment on this one...
7. 'You shall not commit adultery.'
I still haven't seen any mention of gay people until now, but quite a lot of people cheat on their partners, while still claiming to be christians.
8. 'You shall not steal.'
obvious enough...
9. 'You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.'
It would be a very nice world if there would never be a false accusation, but hey, it's not like that's a reality
10. 'You shall not covet your neighbour's house; you shall not covet your neighbour's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbour's.'
In this one, a male/female servant is even put on the same level as his wife, when it comes to how bad it is...
As far as I remember these 10 commandmends are very important in christianity, and yet people don't make too much fuss about most of them. Homosexuality on the other hand, scares them, and therefor they hate it so much.
I rather let everybody make their own decisions. If someone discovers (or decides, for those of you who don't believe they just ARE gay) that they are gay, they won't start harrassing straight men/women, but instead find other people in the same situation, so you can stop being afraid, and remove the plate from the back of your pants
My wife and I know a gay man, but why would I feel uncomfortable shaking his hand or talking to him? He's a nice person...
I guess they aren't more likely to try and seduce you, than that you are likely to try and seduce a lesbian...
Hmm, maybe this comparison isn't that great
try a player that supports ogg vorbis instead of the MS Media Player that only supports MP3 because that makes people not look at non-MS software for that purpose while MS is in the meanwhile introducing and pushing their own format (WMA).
Winamp plays ogg vorbis files just fine for quite some time...
All you need to make it fair is "loser pays"
Sure... that way you're certain that big companies can impossibly screw you over (i.e. being a small developer), because when they threathen with a lawsuit, you can say: "go on, sue me... when I lose (even though I have a 99,9% chance of winning) I can easily pay the legal bills.
Or the other way around... Some big company (let's call them MicroSoft for the folks around here) does something wrong (not terribly wrong, but in the gray area of legality). If you sue them, you've got a fairly big chance of losing, especially since they have the cash to keep the trial going as far as the law allows or until they win. So, what do you do... you don't sue, and by doing so, the big money company's practices become accepted, because noone dares to sue...
... any radiation produced by the thing inside the conductive shield will get out just fine.
I wish you a lot of fun with your microwave...
about $ 250 for the 20GB model, and add $ 50 per 20GB up to a maximum of 80GB, with otherwise identical features...
Very nice price tag for this kind of functionality!