Huh, I've heard some things about SSDs but I don't remember hearing any mentions that they're supposed to save more power. The only advantage I thought was size (and shape, you could make an SSD a 12"x1"x.25" or 3"x3"x3", but a circle will always get more space inside a square) and no moving parts so shock wouldn't be as dangerous.
It's switching billions of little semiconductors, it's going to take power to do that. There's sure to be less inductive reactance than two motors and a head that goes ZAP ZAP ZAP, but not (a whole lot) less power.
I've always plugged my ICQ UIN into Pidgin and stuff for a long time, I guess it's one of those numbers I'll forget no more than my SSN or phone number. The only problem is, I don't have anyone on my ICQ list! I'm just an IM server whore and every time something comes out I'm suddenly compelled to make an account on it.
*shrugs* If ICQ doesn't want me to use their networks with the software I want, then I guess I just won't. I'm not going to pout, I'm not going to tell them anything, in fact... I don't think I'm even going to care. They're a pain in the ass anyways, every time I log into Pidgin or Adium or something somewhere else I got disconnected from my login at home.
I oddly feel like I just wasted my time, the time I was already doing nothing with, by typing this post.
If you imprison parents, who's going to watch their kids?
Parents have the right to raise their children any way they want, and stepping back outside of the imagination of morals, it's the point of the more darwinian aspect of intelligent life to leave it to parents to make the decisions they want.
If their children then 'succeed at life', then they're influence may have helped. If their children 'fail at life', then that's just nature taking it's course.
We can't have winners without losers, and worse, we can hardly predict who will be what.
How can one person judge another to do what's right when no one's judged them but themselves?
I know Apple's upgrades are a little pricey compared to their competition and I don't really know if they use better hardware, but I do have a Pismo Powerbook from 2000 that still works like brand new and it has the original lithium-ion battery in it that can still give me almost 2 hours of power when in the power save mode in Tiger.
It got dropped pretty hard once a couple years ago and it didn't phase it, but it was in a leather bag at the time.
I've been using the TypeMatrix EZ-2030(Dvorak) for a few years now. It's not impossible to switch back to staggered (and usually qwerty) keyboards, but there's some things I'm just so used to that I miss pretty quickly.
The two big ones is the enter key and backspace in the center and the caps lock WAY THE HELL OUT OF THE WAY. On the laptop I'm using I actually removed the caps lock and threw it away. I never use it. Ever. It's a big, dumb, mean, stupid key and it does not belong next to the A key.
What's also nice about it over other keyboards is it's tiny and doesn't have all the extra plastic surrounding it. It doesn't always bother me but sometimes it just really helps to have the extra space around the keyboard.
What it does sacrifice, though, is the dedicated numeric keypad. I never use that but then I don't use numbers much.
It's also on the expensive side at about 100 dollars, but they've replaced it free for me twice (first some keys stopped working and the second time my cat knocked something heavy on it).
OH! The absolutely most useful feature on it for me, but probably not much anyone else here, is it can convert qwerty to Dvorak through the hardware so when I take it to school with me I don't have to install the keymaps every time I log into the computer.
Well, what about the people with no eyeballs? OR HANDS?! OR FACES!? OR EVEN DNA?! You think criminals are dangerous, it's the criminal zombies you have to be really afraid of! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
I would buy him the rare opportunity to treat me to dinner. I'm freaking hungry. It's not like I could ever get him anything he couldn't or hasn't got for himself.
If people were in better health, if their bodies needed less to go on because they were getting just what they needed and not the other crap, then those finite resources could go a little further.
Most people only have about 20 years, between ~20 years old and ~40 years old, where they're at their best to really go out and do their part for society. Growing up there's not a whole lot a person can do and age takes it's toll as early as 25 for some people.
If people had more time to do the best with themselves, we could have more people working on getting those resources and improving on them.
I have a feeling people will fight a lot harder for the fountain of youth than good teeth and healthy meals. If they don't have the ambition, then they don't really need it.
Cars don't heal... constantly... without stopping... regenerating tissue without a moment to think.
That car will get old and rusty if you leave it sit, but if you overhaul the entirety every year and replace every part that goes bad or unreliable as soon as it does then that car will last you until you crash it or forget about it. I guess that's grandfather's axe, but then so is the human body except for brain cells.
I don't see how extending human life would work to devalue it. I don't play a violin for every person that dies in far off countries but I do feel personally hurt when people are dying for no good reason.
Stupidity will of course rise with the population increase, and that's the real killer, of both other stupid people and the innocent sensible people watching where they're going.
If we could increase the health of everyone, we could help maintain resources and shelter and everything for everyone.
I've been back and forth across the US quite a bit and I've been to a few other countries, there's a lot of empty space between here and there and the only overpopulation I've seen are in the big cities that people incessantly cling to or migrate to for reasons beyond my understanding, probably because I was raised in a big city and hated it.
The dirty truth of it is that overall, humans are in comparatively poor health to what they could be if everyone ate right and had the best health care available and actually made use of it.
When was the last time you washed your hands? When was the last time you washed your hands even though they didn't look like they had anything on them? When was the last time you washed your keyboard?
Death is not necessary, it's just a cliche everyone falls for eventually.
'living forever' really seems like it should be possible. Our bodies have a process, and that process can get altered by diseases and malnourishment and improving how we keep clean and what we eat has given us much more time to live.
Why should aging be any different? Nobody really dies of 'natural causes', it's always something specific that breaks homeostasis in the end (sometimes starting from the beginning), natural causes is another name for 'there's no worth in investigating exactly why this person died because they're too damned old, but it's probably heart failure, even though that's a symptom of a mode of death'.
Our bodies aren't designed on a basis of 'right' and 'wrong', it's designed on what worked best to getting the next generation across. Unfortunately, renewing certain kinds of cell tissue was never vital to that goal.
We already know electronics and stuff are prone to getting old and eventually failing themselves, but there's no reason to use our artifice as an analogy, we have yet to create something that is constantly replacing itself on the cellular level, essentially becoming a whole new thing over and over.
I hope this research makes some serious progress, even if it will be only our descendants that enjoy the results.
I was actually in the belief that torrents were really gobbling up the internet, or at least taking up a gigantic portion of it. It was kind of a blind assumption because of how many simultaneous connections it has and it seems like just all the TCP switching would be hard on the routers.
I suppose if they're coming out with hardware that can sniff EVERY SINGLE PACKET that goes through them now then anything else ought to be able to handle the less intrusive stuff. If it can't, then ISP's seriously need to get their priorities in order.
Oh, no, I do write companies and tell them all the time exactly what I do and my reason for it. Sierra replied to me with a boilerplate linking to steampowered.com after I told them how I felt about the SecuROM in Homeworld 2.
Don't ask me how I took my readings, if you don't know you don't need to do the dangerous and downright stupid thing I did to measure. Get a Kill-a-watt.
My computer (measuring off the whole strip, so it includes the speakers and stuff) doing nothing usually draws 1.9 amperes (120/60), when I play Mass Effect, it goes up to about 2.2 amperes.
My laptop (old Compaq 2596us) takes about.6 amperes regardless of what it's doing.
I suddenly realize how much I can save myself using my laptop instead of my desktop for all the things I do in the day I don't need the power hungry, acrylic monolith.
Now I just need to find something better to do with myself when I'm bored.
Oh, you're right, I actually looked up what impeachment meant. I thought it was getting kicked out of the office, shows how typical of an American I am.
He might be psychotic. He heard that Al Quida's (not even trying to spell it today) base of operation was in Iraq and he saw a lot of people were really happy about going to war with Iraq.
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Huh, I've heard some things about SSDs but I don't remember hearing any mentions that they're supposed to save more power. The only advantage I thought was size (and shape, you could make an SSD a 12"x1"x.25" or 3"x3"x3", but a circle will always get more space inside a square) and no moving parts so shock wouldn't be as dangerous.
It's switching billions of little semiconductors, it's going to take power to do that. There's sure to be less inductive reactance than two motors and a head that goes ZAP ZAP ZAP, but not (a whole lot) less power.
I've always plugged my ICQ UIN into Pidgin and stuff for a long time, I guess it's one of those numbers I'll forget no more than my SSN or phone number. The only problem is, I don't have anyone on my ICQ list! I'm just an IM server whore and every time something comes out I'm suddenly compelled to make an account on it.
*shrugs* If ICQ doesn't want me to use their networks with the software I want, then I guess I just won't. I'm not going to pout, I'm not going to tell them anything, in fact... I don't think I'm even going to care. They're a pain in the ass anyways, every time I log into Pidgin or Adium or something somewhere else I got disconnected from my login at home.
I oddly feel like I just wasted my time, the time I was already doing nothing with, by typing this post.
If you imprison parents, who's going to watch their kids?
Parents have the right to raise their children any way they want, and stepping back outside of the imagination of morals, it's the point of the more darwinian aspect of intelligent life to leave it to parents to make the decisions they want.
If their children then 'succeed at life', then they're influence may have helped. If their children 'fail at life', then that's just nature taking it's course.
We can't have winners without losers, and worse, we can hardly predict who will be what.
How can one person judge another to do what's right when no one's judged them but themselves?
I know Apple's upgrades are a little pricey compared to their competition and I don't really know if they use better hardware, but I do have a Pismo Powerbook from 2000 that still works like brand new and it has the original lithium-ion battery in it that can still give me almost 2 hours of power when in the power save mode in Tiger.
It got dropped pretty hard once a couple years ago and it didn't phase it, but it was in a leather bag at the time.
I've been using the TypeMatrix EZ-2030(Dvorak) for a few years now. It's not impossible to switch back to staggered (and usually qwerty) keyboards, but there's some things I'm just so used to that I miss pretty quickly.
The two big ones is the enter key and backspace in the center and the caps lock WAY THE HELL OUT OF THE WAY. On the laptop I'm using I actually removed the caps lock and threw it away. I never use it. Ever. It's a big, dumb, mean, stupid key and it does not belong next to the A key.
What's also nice about it over other keyboards is it's tiny and doesn't have all the extra plastic surrounding it. It doesn't always bother me but sometimes it just really helps to have the extra space around the keyboard.
What it does sacrifice, though, is the dedicated numeric keypad. I never use that but then I don't use numbers much.
It's also on the expensive side at about 100 dollars, but they've replaced it free for me twice (first some keys stopped working and the second time my cat knocked something heavy on it).
OH! The absolutely most useful feature on it for me, but probably not much anyone else here, is it can convert qwerty to Dvorak through the hardware so when I take it to school with me I don't have to install the keymaps every time I log into the computer.
Check it out, typematrix.com
Well, what about the people with no eyeballs? OR HANDS?! OR FACES!? OR EVEN DNA?! You think criminals are dangerous, it's the criminal zombies you have to be really afraid of! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
I would buy him the rare opportunity to treat me to dinner. I'm freaking hungry. It's not like I could ever get him anything he couldn't or hasn't got for himself.
Nonsense, the longer we live the more time we'll have to gain experience and each find out what life really is. Maybe.
There's nothing ridiculous about trying to fight off the same thing we fight our whole lives.
I like the way you talk.
If people were in better health, if their bodies needed less to go on because they were getting just what they needed and not the other crap, then those finite resources could go a little further.
Most people only have about 20 years, between ~20 years old and ~40 years old, where they're at their best to really go out and do their part for society. Growing up there's not a whole lot a person can do and age takes it's toll as early as 25 for some people.
If people had more time to do the best with themselves, we could have more people working on getting those resources and improving on them.
I'm getting tired, I hope I'm making sense.
I have a feeling people will fight a lot harder for the fountain of youth than good teeth and healthy meals. If they don't have the ambition, then they don't really need it.
Cars don't heal... constantly... without stopping... regenerating tissue without a moment to think.
That car will get old and rusty if you leave it sit, but if you overhaul the entirety every year and replace every part that goes bad or unreliable as soon as it does then that car will last you until you crash it or forget about it. I guess that's grandfather's axe, but then so is the human body except for brain cells.
If people weren't in such a rush to burn up their youth they might take life a little more seriously.
Yes. I'd sure as Hell rather die in a plane crash at a healthy young age of 500 than die of old age of 80.
I don't see how extending human life would work to devalue it. I don't play a violin for every person that dies in far off countries but I do feel personally hurt when people are dying for no good reason.
Stupidity will of course rise with the population increase, and that's the real killer, of both other stupid people and the innocent sensible people watching where they're going.
If we could increase the health of everyone, we could help maintain resources and shelter and everything for everyone.
I've been back and forth across the US quite a bit and I've been to a few other countries, there's a lot of empty space between here and there and the only overpopulation I've seen are in the big cities that people incessantly cling to or migrate to for reasons beyond my understanding, probably because I was raised in a big city and hated it.
The dirty truth of it is that overall, humans are in comparatively poor health to what they could be if everyone ate right and had the best health care available and actually made use of it.
When was the last time you washed your hands? When was the last time you washed your hands even though they didn't look like they had anything on them? When was the last time you washed your keyboard?
Death is not necessary, it's just a cliche everyone falls for eventually.
'living forever' really seems like it should be possible. Our bodies have a process, and that process can get altered by diseases and malnourishment and improving how we keep clean and what we eat has given us much more time to live.
Why should aging be any different? Nobody really dies of 'natural causes', it's always something specific that breaks homeostasis in the end (sometimes starting from the beginning), natural causes is another name for 'there's no worth in investigating exactly why this person died because they're too damned old, but it's probably heart failure, even though that's a symptom of a mode of death'.
Our bodies aren't designed on a basis of 'right' and 'wrong', it's designed on what worked best to getting the next generation across. Unfortunately, renewing certain kinds of cell tissue was never vital to that goal.
We already know electronics and stuff are prone to getting old and eventually failing themselves, but there's no reason to use our artifice as an analogy, we have yet to create something that is constantly replacing itself on the cellular level, essentially becoming a whole new thing over and over.
I hope this research makes some serious progress, even if it will be only our descendants that enjoy the results.
I was actually in the belief that torrents were really gobbling up the internet, or at least taking up a gigantic portion of it. It was kind of a blind assumption because of how many simultaneous connections it has and it seems like just all the TCP switching would be hard on the routers.
I suppose if they're coming out with hardware that can sniff EVERY SINGLE PACKET that goes through them now then anything else ought to be able to handle the less intrusive stuff. If it can't, then ISP's seriously need to get their priorities in order.
It's not about practicality or relevance, it's about Sun setting an example and living up to saying what it would do.
Oh, no, I do write companies and tell them all the time exactly what I do and my reason for it. Sierra replied to me with a boilerplate linking to steampowered.com after I told them how I felt about the SecuROM in Homeworld 2.
Don't ask me how I took my readings, if you don't know you don't need to do the dangerous and downright stupid thing I did to measure. Get a Kill-a-watt.
My computer (measuring off the whole strip, so it includes the speakers and stuff) doing nothing usually draws 1.9 amperes (120/60), when I play Mass Effect, it goes up to about 2.2 amperes.
My laptop (old Compaq 2596us) takes about .6 amperes regardless of what it's doing.
I suddenly realize how much I can save myself using my laptop instead of my desktop for all the things I do in the day I don't need the power hungry, acrylic monolith.
Now I just need to find something better to do with myself when I'm bored.
Oh, you're right, I actually looked up what impeachment meant. I thought it was getting kicked out of the office, shows how typical of an American I am.
He might be psychotic. He heard that Al Quida's (not even trying to spell it today) base of operation was in Iraq and he saw a lot of people were really happy about going to war with Iraq.
After all, didn't a lot of people vote for Bush because they wanted a president who says what he means and means what he says?
First or second term? Oh, wait, you must mean the first, he lost the second vote.He didn't get impeached, he was found guilty of perjury and then acquitted and continued his presidency.