Certain fears are good. Fear of heights has saved thousands (maybe millions?) of hominids in the past million years or so from falling to their deaths.
However, my mom's fear about being around balloons because of their ability to spontaneously pop and startle her isn't such a good fear. Neither is my inability to talk to girls in a bar. And while fear of heights in general might be good, some people's fear about flying in a plane might not be so good.
The point is... if this one compound blocks all fear, that would be a bad thing. Fear is the evolutionary mechanism of saving people from dying.
Who sends out resumes in an editable file type like DOC? Anyone who sends me a resume in anything other than PDF is immediately knocked down a couple points (and is immediately knocked out completely if I can't open it).
This might be too obvious and I might get modded to hell...
Regarding the issue of games being either too hard or too easy... How about a selector screen at the beginning of the game where you pick Easy/Medium/Hard? I was playing Halo 2 the other day, I suck and played and had a good challenge at Easy, my friend was playing at the hardest level ("Legendary") and had an equally challenging time. Bam, two different skill levels appeased by the same game.
Is this a bad solution? Sounds like a good one to me.
I don't care if my download speed is 50mbps as long as my upload speed is still below 3mbps (currently its 768kbps).
I log into a VPN every day and upload a few dozen 10-megapixel 16-bit CMYK TIFFs, averaging around 80MB each. It takes about 15-20 minutes each. Thats close to 8 hours a day saturating my upstream connection.
If they would just give me 5mbps upload, it would take only 2-3 minutes each, or a little over an hour.
Think there's a possibility my new MacBook will be able to gain these features with a software/firmware update? This doesn't seem like a hardware limitation to me, especially since it can already detect multiple touches for scrolling.
Your body currently has a bunch of cancerous cells here and there throughout. But you'll probably live a long, healthy life, and never be diagnosed with cancer. Why? Because apoptosis (among other cell processes) helps kill the cells that are off-track and FUBARed.
This technique better be applied very specifically to cells and not "generally" to a mass of tissue, otherwise you'll be making the equivalent of a petri dish (read: idealized growing environment) for cancer.
Syncing with google calendar is the most profound new feature to me. Having a calendar stored on one computer is no good to someone who moves between several computers. This is the same reason I use IMAP email, store my sent emails on the IMAP server so I can read even them from whereever I am, and why I DONT use gmail: because it doesnt support IMAP.
Off topic: anyone hear any rumors about gmail supporting IMAP?
It's not the RFID tags the senator is going after... its employers being able to fire anyone who doesn't want a CHIP EMBEDDED IN THEIR SKIN by the company they work for. I think RFID technology is great, and I completely support this bill.
This is another case of an industry group going crazy to protect what they perceive to be their interests, when in fact its no challenge to the technology at all, its a challenge to having an employer being able to modify your body.
So the USA is a large country in almost every way you can measure it. Lots of land, lots of people, etc
So I have an honest question for those of you that live in geographically-smaller countries: "Do all regions of your country generally have the same values?"
In the United States, we have this interesting area known as the "South." While most of the Northeast, Mid-West, and Coastal Western States are left-leaning, the South (and the south-west and non-coastal west) has a right-leaning attitude. And lots of people live in these states. And I'm not trying to make a political statement here, but generally speaking, the south has lower salaries, a lower-skilled and less-educated populace, more children per household, more religious tendancies, and a host of other features you could probably guess.
Pretty much, its because of the SOUTH that the current administration was re-elected. Oh, that and the democratic ticket in the last election, John Kerry, wasn't exactly the most likable guy you've ever met.
So thats why we have Bush. Now, impeachment is a huge deal and probably not gonna happen. However, save impeachment, we HAVE DEMANDED A CHANGE IN GOVERNMENT. The last American elections in November, the Democrats won both chambers in Congress. So we've done pretty much everything we can do in the last 2 years besides impeaching the president and nuking the South.
Also, I need to specify total ink limits, and the amount of Grey Component Replacement, or the exact mix of inks the software uses to come up with "black".
Go into Photoshop > Edit > Color Settings > CMYK > Custom CMYK and play around to see what GIMP (even with the CMYK patch) is missing.
I hope they're planning on running their own fiber optic line across the Atlantic, or shipping a lot of hard drives, cause thats too much data to pass over the public internet.
FYI 15 petabytes per year = 120 petabits per year = 120,000,000 gigabits per year
120,000,000 gigabits per year / ~30,000,000 seconds per year = 4gbps of continuous transmission. They could run a fiber across the Atlantic that could handle 4gbps.
This is why journalists do a thing called fact checking. You need multiple sources, or at least a source more convincing than a random @apple.com address, before you go to print with something like this. If Engaget was a legitimate news source, they would get hit HARD for this. But they aren't legitimate, so nobody really holds them in less esteem after this. Apple still has the right to legal action, however.
You can support copyright and NOT support ABUSE of copyright. Its the ABUSE of copyright that pisses people off.
As a professional photographer, if I take a good photograph, I don't want someone putting my picture up on their website and saying someone else took the photo. This is NOT me abusing my copyright.
If, however, a newspaper ran my photo on the front page, but I refused to allow anyone to cut out the photo and hang it on their refrigerator, and went from house to house inspecting refrigerators... THAT would be abusing my copyright. Sound vaguely similar to the MAFIAAs?
I hope you see the difference. Copyright is actually a good thing when not abused.
but my grandma is unable to debug the TCP/IP stack in Windows Vista. She relies on other people to provide her decent networking protocols so she can play online bingo with my great aunts.
But see, here's the thing:
You can set up a web server on whatever port you want, and be clever and get it to work. However you're still (I think) in violation of your customer agreement with Comcast, because they don't want you to have a web server, any HTTP/HTTPS access, on ANY PORT period. So you might get around their port 80 block, but if they were to find you out, they could still do anything from sending you a friendly notice to stop, to shut down your service.
I hope they don't plan on this server having a web-based interface to the outside world, because right now many ISPs (including mine, Comcast) forbid people from running web servers, and most actually block access to port 80 on their customer's lines.
I'm hoping that will change, I hope I can use my internet line for whatever (legal) stuff I want in the future...
I also hope my upload speed becomes as fast as my download speed, instead of the current 768kbps compared to 6.6mbps, but thats another story...
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photographing a book takes less time than reading one.
Certain fears are good. Fear of heights has saved thousands (maybe millions?) of hominids in the past million years or so from falling to their deaths. However, my mom's fear about being around balloons because of their ability to spontaneously pop and startle her isn't such a good fear. Neither is my inability to talk to girls in a bar. And while fear of heights in general might be good, some people's fear about flying in a plane might not be so good. The point is... if this one compound blocks all fear, that would be a bad thing. Fear is the evolutionary mechanism of saving people from dying.
Who sends out resumes in an editable file type like DOC? Anyone who sends me a resume in anything other than PDF is immediately knocked down a couple points (and is immediately knocked out completely if I can't open it).
This might be too obvious and I might get modded to hell...
Regarding the issue of games being either too hard or too easy... How about a selector screen at the beginning of the game where you pick Easy/Medium/Hard? I was playing Halo 2 the other day, I suck and played and had a good challenge at Easy, my friend was playing at the hardest level ("Legendary") and had an equally challenging time. Bam, two different skill levels appeased by the same game.
Is this a bad solution? Sounds like a good one to me.
I don't care if my download speed is 50mbps as long as my upload speed is still below 3mbps (currently its 768kbps).
I log into a VPN every day and upload a few dozen 10-megapixel 16-bit CMYK TIFFs, averaging around 80MB each. It takes about 15-20 minutes each. Thats close to 8 hours a day saturating my upstream connection.
If they would just give me 5mbps upload, it would take only 2-3 minutes each, or a little over an hour.
Could someone who has a legal background comment on whether this is entrapment or not?
Think there's a possibility my new MacBook will be able to gain these features with a software/firmware update? This doesn't seem like a hardware limitation to me, especially since it can already detect multiple touches for scrolling.
Your body currently has a bunch of cancerous cells here and there throughout. But you'll probably live a long, healthy life, and never be diagnosed with cancer. Why? Because apoptosis (among other cell processes) helps kill the cells that are off-track and FUBARed.
This technique better be applied very specifically to cells and not "generally" to a mass of tissue, otherwise you'll be making the equivalent of a petri dish (read: idealized growing environment) for cancer.
Oh right, and I also dont use gmail because I cant stand web-based email.
Syncing with google calendar is the most profound new feature to me. Having a calendar stored on one computer is no good to someone who moves between several computers. This is the same reason I use IMAP email, store my sent emails on the IMAP server so I can read even them from whereever I am, and why I DONT use gmail: because it doesnt support IMAP.
Off topic: anyone hear any rumors about gmail supporting IMAP?
It's not the RFID tags the senator is going after... its employers being able to fire anyone who doesn't want a CHIP EMBEDDED IN THEIR SKIN by the company they work for. I think RFID technology is great, and I completely support this bill.
This is another case of an industry group going crazy to protect what they perceive to be their interests, when in fact its no challenge to the technology at all, its a challenge to having an employer being able to modify your body.
So the USA is a large country in almost every way you can measure it. Lots of land, lots of people, etc
So I have an honest question for those of you that live in geographically-smaller countries: "Do all regions of your country generally have the same values?"
In the United States, we have this interesting area known as the "South." While most of the Northeast, Mid-West, and Coastal Western States are left-leaning, the South (and the south-west and non-coastal west) has a right-leaning attitude. And lots of people live in these states. And I'm not trying to make a political statement here, but generally speaking, the south has lower salaries, a lower-skilled and less-educated populace, more children per household, more religious tendancies, and a host of other features you could probably guess.
Pretty much, its because of the SOUTH that the current administration was re-elected. Oh, that and the democratic ticket in the last election, John Kerry, wasn't exactly the most likable guy you've ever met.
So thats why we have Bush. Now, impeachment is a huge deal and probably not gonna happen. However, save impeachment, we HAVE DEMANDED A CHANGE IN GOVERNMENT. The last American elections in November, the Democrats won both chambers in Congress. So we've done pretty much everything we can do in the last 2 years besides impeaching the president and nuking the South.
Everything the parent says is correct.
Also, I need to specify total ink limits, and the amount of Grey Component Replacement, or the exact mix of inks the software uses to come up with "black".
Go into Photoshop > Edit > Color Settings > CMYK > Custom CMYK and play around to see what GIMP (even with the CMYK patch) is missing.
I hope they're planning on running their own fiber optic line across the Atlantic, or shipping a lot of hard drives, cause thats too much data to pass over the public internet.
FYI 15 petabytes per year = 120 petabits per year = 120,000,000 gigabits per year
120,000,000 gigabits per year / ~30,000,000 seconds per year = 4gbps of continuous transmission. They could run a fiber across the Atlantic that could handle 4gbps.
This is why journalists do a thing called fact checking. You need multiple sources, or at least a source more convincing than a random @apple.com address, before you go to print with something like this. If Engaget was a legitimate news source, they would get hit HARD for this. But they aren't legitimate, so nobody really holds them in less esteem after this. Apple still has the right to legal action, however.
You can support copyright and NOT support ABUSE of copyright. Its the ABUSE of copyright that pisses people off.
As a professional photographer, if I take a good photograph, I don't want someone putting my picture up on their website and saying someone else took the photo. This is NOT me abusing my copyright.
If, however, a newspaper ran my photo on the front page, but I refused to allow anyone to cut out the photo and hang it on their refrigerator, and went from house to house inspecting refrigerators... THAT would be abusing my copyright. Sound vaguely similar to the MAFIAAs?
I hope you see the difference. Copyright is actually a good thing when not abused.
but my grandma is unable to debug the TCP/IP stack in Windows Vista. She relies on other people to provide her decent networking protocols so she can play online bingo with my great aunts.
But see, here's the thing: You can set up a web server on whatever port you want, and be clever and get it to work. However you're still (I think) in violation of your customer agreement with Comcast, because they don't want you to have a web server, any HTTP/HTTPS access, on ANY PORT period. So you might get around their port 80 block, but if they were to find you out, they could still do anything from sending you a friendly notice to stop, to shut down your service.
I hope they don't plan on this server having a web-based interface to the outside world, because right now many ISPs (including mine, Comcast) forbid people from running web servers, and most actually block access to port 80 on their customer's lines.
I'm hoping that will change, I hope I can use my internet line for whatever (legal) stuff I want in the future...
I also hope my upload speed becomes as fast as my download speed, instead of the current 768kbps compared to 6.6mbps, but thats another story...
Microsoft is NOT offering $50B and probably never will. The $50B figure is the Wall Street Journal's estimate on how much Yahoo is worth.
There's a difference between FAULT PROTECTION and BACKUP.
If you don't know the difference, I suggest you learn.
Sitting on your bum with only a RAID-1 protecting your data is only smart if you hate the company you work for and want to stick it to 'em.
Did he ACTUALLY say he hopes his 85 yearold uncle owns a Zune instead of an iPod...
Riiight... thats just the thing to say to get 15-30 year olds - their REAL market - to buy a Zune.
As a matriculated student in MIT's class of 2008... I'd have to mostly agree.
from The Tech, the student newspaper: http://www-tech.mit.edu/V127/N21/jones.html
"I'm tired of Hollywood pretty-boys like you and Jack Valenti thinking you can have any woman you want." -Homer Simpson, speaking to Mel Gibson