I encounter people who drive below the speed limit in the fast lane on an almost daily basis, and I certainly encounter Grandma and Grandpa doing 10 below on a two-lane road with no ability to pass them daily. At the very least, these activities cause congestion (especially on the two-lane highway I drive on) and frustration. Frustrated drivers aren't the safest to be around. Don't assume people are good drivers, perfectly emotionally stable, not prone to road rage, etc. Get over. I do it, and have never had an at-fault accident, ticket, or anything else. Why would I want to enrage my fellow drivers for no reason?
Not being a hardware geek, this is what I heard: Is it possible to recalibrate the phased tetryon emitters to modulate the warp field and provide infinite information?
On a moreassemble note, I would argue no, because of the limited amount of matter / energy in the universe, let alone any limits of the material.
That is monetary deflation relative to other currencies; that is, each unit of money (e.g. bitcoin) has become more valuable, and prices correspondingly drop (price deflation). Inflation is the opposite: prices rise, currency becomes worth less per unit.
Monetary and price inflation / deflation are often related, but not always. For example, computer processors have had prices fall due to technology, not because the dollar is worth more. Conversely, a civil war in, say, Saudi Arabia would make oil prices (and many others) rise.
Both monetary inflation and deflation can have positive and negative effects depending on the individual. With deflation, money becomes more valuable over time, so savers accumulate money simply by holding it. No risky investment needed. Debtors, on the other hand, see their debts grow over time. There is a push for less spending and more saving as it makes more sense in this environment. Consumers may hoard cash.
Inflation on the other hand means money loses value over time. Debtors see their debts lessened over time, while savers must invest to break even over the long run. In this environment, there is more spending and less hoarding. More risky investments are needed to make the same real (adjusted for inflation) return.
This ignores interest rates and the like, fractional reserve banking, etc. because I don't think I have a solid grasp of economics beyond this much (assuming I made no mistakes, here's to hoping)
Hey now! Wait just one minute! We reptilians strongly deny any involvement, and are disgusted with this slandering of our good name. We suggest trying the World Zionist-Nazi International Alien Conspiracy (WZNIAC).
Can you imagine? Your ISP decides to give you a new prefix and you'd have to program it into your switches so they can talk to the right lightbulbs again.
Wouldn't they automatically be updated when your ISP gives you your new prefix? I thought that was the beauty of IPv6 autoconfig. Myhome router certainly can do this when it gets a new prefix; I'd imagine enterprise level gear would be capable of the same.
Sure you can assign more IPv6 addresses to ensure that your home server is always FC00::100, but having to know all the IP addresses of each machine when diagnosing things just gets to be a pain.
You could use mDNS to alleviate that pain. Set up the host name, and that's all you have to remember.
Monash University Shooting. There are places on this planet that are heavily armed and have low crime, and heavily armed and high crime. Australia is more heavily armed than Pakistan, for instance, but I know where I'd feel safer. Iraq and Finland have very close gun ownership rates.
I know, right? We should become indiscriminate mass murderers in order to combat mass murderers. I'm sure the combined response of the world wouldn't put a damper on our genocide in order to defeat one band of people who killed less Americans than cars do in this country. It would certainly not raise tensions in Islamic countries, who would never think that indiscriminate slaughter of their co-religionists is a cause worth fighting against. They don't have a history of flocking to defend a country they think is being taken over by a group they think is out to destroy their religion.
Pyramid schemes are helping citizens now? Social Security is dependent on there being more current "investors" to pay off the previous ones. The previous investors are now comparatively more numerous and demanding more payments (thanks to medical technology increasing life spans). Better would be simply taking the SS tax money and putting it in a vault somewhere, accessible upon retirement and paid on a fixed schedule.
Cell phones are safety devices; you can call for help if, say, someone shoots up your school, or you sibling goes missing, or your child goes missing, or endless other permutations. It also saves resources; because I could text my brother, I could find out he's got a meeting at school for a couple hours he forgot to tell me about and not call on a manhunt because the incompetent school staff can't find him.
As for plugging in, my former high school used mobile computer labs to save on costs; now they didn't need as many computer labs (which were reserved mainly for tech classes). With a wires only policy, the setup and teardown time for 30+ laptops would be higher (wasting class time), the equipment cost would be higher (2 switches or so vs 1-2 wireless APs), and the benefits nonexistent. I bet the Fire Marshall would love the rats nest of wires created every time they use a mobile lab.
They also have a monopoly on letter mail (save for super urgent mail), to the point that it's a crime for anyone else to use the mailbox IIRC. That's why you see newspapers put up those stupid boxes right next to yours.
Private companies, concerned with profits, cannot guarantee that rural residents will receive mail with the same prices and service as people in the heart of downtown. The USPS can.
This is exactly the problem with the USPS. To deliver to my house takes a heck of a lot less effort than to that guy living in the middle of nowhere above the Arctic circle. Why subsidize the rural population? What is it about living from civilization is so great and important that we must pay for it? This isn't 1800, the requirement for vast segments of our population to work the land for food is gone.
So was the Mac before 2006. Windows NT was once ported to PowerPC. So is there a substantial difference between PowerPC and x86, other than compatibility with non-free Windows applications? Otherwise, the Xbox 360 is a 3-core Power Mac with a Radeon X1900.
Then the Wii is a single core Power Mac with an ATi card and an ARM-based security chip. The PS3 would also be a Power Mac (IIRC Cell contains a Power core). Windows now runs on ARM. Is an ARM-based phone a PC because of that?
The 360 is not a PC, it's running Power chips The original Xbox was x86, but this one is not. If it is a PC, so is the Wii (which also has a Power chip).
Bin Laden wasn't evilest guy alive; I'd say maybe Kim Jong Il holds that position. There're plenty of dictators with more blood on their hands than bin Laden. Bin Laden might not even break the top 10 in terms of death toll.
Habeus corpus, for one. Yes, it's still there, but now you've been accused of terrorism or any violation with national security implications. There's the whole unreasonable searches thing (the drug war has assisted in it's demise). Free speech is now more limited (see free speech zones). Eminent domain is now a tool for business, not just to make roads and the like.
Indeed. My current income from WP7 isn't spectacular, and quite frankly I feel that investing the same amount of time on Android would have been more fruitful. I have a game I'm coming out with for WP7 and XBLIG, and if the game doesn't reach a certain target, I may not renew the license. After this game and a project I'm working on for a company (the real reason I paid the $99), I'm shifting everything to Android and probably iOS (once I get new hardware).
What I did was I bought a used device off of eBay for development with WP7. The previous owner left all of her text messages and emails on the device, and she kept writing about how she hated the phone so much. Needless to say, it didn't cost very much. You can test everything without a phone plan (minus any transfer speeds over edge or 3G). I suspect the same is the case for an iPhone (though I own one already) and Android (haven't done any work there).
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I encounter people who drive below the speed limit in the fast lane on an almost daily basis, and I certainly encounter Grandma and Grandpa doing 10 below on a two-lane road with no ability to pass them daily. At the very least, these activities cause congestion (especially on the two-lane highway I drive on) and frustration. Frustrated drivers aren't the safest to be around. Don't assume people are good drivers, perfectly emotionally stable, not prone to road rage, etc. Get over. I do it, and have never had an at-fault accident, ticket, or anything else. Why would I want to enrage my fellow drivers for no reason?
Not being a hardware geek, this is what I heard: Is it possible to recalibrate the phased tetryon emitters to modulate the warp field and provide infinite information?
On a moreassemble note, I would argue no, because of the limited amount of matter / energy in the universe, let alone any limits of the material.
I'm 5'7" and haven't had a problem with the seats being too small in any airline I've flown in, American or Japanese.
Colbert, like many of our weird English spellings, is French.
That is monetary deflation relative to other currencies; that is, each unit of money (e.g. bitcoin) has become more valuable, and prices correspondingly drop (price deflation). Inflation is the opposite: prices rise, currency becomes worth less per unit.
Monetary and price inflation / deflation are often related, but not always. For example, computer processors have had prices fall due to technology, not because the dollar is worth more. Conversely, a civil war in, say, Saudi Arabia would make oil prices (and many others) rise.
Both monetary inflation and deflation can have positive and negative effects depending on the individual. With deflation, money becomes more valuable over time, so savers accumulate money simply by holding it. No risky investment needed. Debtors, on the other hand, see their debts grow over time. There is a push for less spending and more saving as it makes more sense in this environment. Consumers may hoard cash.
Inflation on the other hand means money loses value over time. Debtors see their debts lessened over time, while savers must invest to break even over the long run. In this environment, there is more spending and less hoarding. More risky investments are needed to make the same real (adjusted for inflation) return.
This ignores interest rates and the like, fractional reserve banking, etc. because I don't think I have a solid grasp of economics beyond this much (assuming I made no mistakes, here's to hoping)
Hey now! Wait just one minute! We reptilians strongly deny any involvement, and are disgusted with this slandering of our good name. We suggest trying the World Zionist-Nazi International Alien Conspiracy (WZNIAC).
Can you imagine? Your ISP decides to give you a new prefix and you'd have to program it into your switches so they can talk to the right lightbulbs again.
Wouldn't they automatically be updated when your ISP gives you your new prefix? I thought that was the beauty of IPv6 autoconfig. Myhome router certainly can do this when it gets a new prefix; I'd imagine enterprise level gear would be capable of the same.
Sure you can assign more IPv6 addresses to ensure that your home server is always FC00::100, but having to know all the IP addresses of each machine when diagnosing things just gets to be a pain.
You could use mDNS to alleviate that pain. Set up the host name, and that's all you have to remember.
Monash University Shooting. There are places on this planet that are heavily armed and have low crime, and heavily armed and high crime. Australia is more heavily armed than Pakistan, for instance, but I know where I'd feel safer. Iraq and Finland have very close gun ownership rates.
I know, right? We should become indiscriminate mass murderers in order to combat mass murderers. I'm sure the combined response of the world wouldn't put a damper on our genocide in order to defeat one band of people who killed less Americans than cars do in this country. It would certainly not raise tensions in Islamic countries, who would never think that indiscriminate slaughter of their co-religionists is a cause worth fighting against. They don't have a history of flocking to defend a country they think is being taken over by a group they think is out to destroy their religion.
Pyramid schemes are helping citizens now? Social Security is dependent on there being more current "investors" to pay off the previous ones. The previous investors are now comparatively more numerous and demanding more payments (thanks to medical technology increasing life spans). Better would be simply taking the SS tax money and putting it in a vault somewhere, accessible upon retirement and paid on a fixed schedule.
Cell phones are safety devices; you can call for help if, say, someone shoots up your school, or you sibling goes missing, or your child goes missing, or endless other permutations. It also saves resources; because I could text my brother, I could find out he's got a meeting at school for a couple hours he forgot to tell me about and not call on a manhunt because the incompetent school staff can't find him.
As for plugging in, my former high school used mobile computer labs to save on costs; now they didn't need as many computer labs (which were reserved mainly for tech classes). With a wires only policy, the setup and teardown time for 30+ laptops would be higher (wasting class time), the equipment cost would be higher (2 switches or so vs 1-2 wireless APs), and the benefits nonexistent. I bet the Fire Marshall would love the rats nest of wires created every time they use a mobile lab.
Did anyone else hear that "whoosh" sound?
Alright boys, we just found ourselves a bot. And you thought you passed the Turing test?
I thought GigE could do 100m or so over Cat 5e cables, just like 10/100 Ethernet. Am I mistaken?
They also have a monopoly on letter mail (save for super urgent mail), to the point that it's a crime for anyone else to use the mailbox IIRC. That's why you see newspapers put up those stupid boxes right next to yours.
Private companies, concerned with profits, cannot guarantee that rural residents will receive mail with the same prices and service as people in the heart of downtown. The USPS can.
This is exactly the problem with the USPS. To deliver to my house takes a heck of a lot less effort than to that guy living in the middle of nowhere above the Arctic circle. Why subsidize the rural population? What is it about living from civilization is so great and important that we must pay for it? This isn't 1800, the requirement for vast segments of our population to work the land for food is gone.
But we still live there out of habit. I mean, who else is gonna fix us hot pockets than good old Mom?
So was the Mac before 2006. Windows NT was once ported to PowerPC. So is there a substantial difference between PowerPC and x86, other than compatibility with non-free Windows applications? Otherwise, the Xbox 360 is a 3-core Power Mac with a Radeon X1900.
Then the Wii is a single core Power Mac with an ATi card and an ARM-based security chip. The PS3 would also be a Power Mac (IIRC Cell contains a Power core). Windows now runs on ARM. Is an ARM-based phone a PC because of that?
The 360 is not a PC, it's running Power chips The original Xbox was x86, but this one is not. If it is a PC, so is the Wii (which also has a Power chip).
Bin Laden wasn't evilest guy alive; I'd say maybe Kim Jong Il holds that position. There're plenty of dictators with more blood on their hands than bin Laden. Bin Laden might not even break the top 10 in terms of death toll.
Habeus corpus, for one. Yes, it's still there, but now you've been accused of terrorism or any violation with national security implications. There's the whole unreasonable searches thing (the drug war has assisted in it's demise). Free speech is now more limited (see free speech zones). Eminent domain is now a tool for business, not just to make roads and the like.
The intense government lobbying for tougher copyright laws is not new, just the specific revelations ("We'll even write your laws for you!")
Indeed. My current income from WP7 isn't spectacular, and quite frankly I feel that investing the same amount of time on Android would have been more fruitful. I have a game I'm coming out with for WP7 and XBLIG, and if the game doesn't reach a certain target, I may not renew the license. After this game and a project I'm working on for a company (the real reason I paid the $99), I'm shifting everything to Android and probably iOS (once I get new hardware).
What I did was I bought a used device off of eBay for development with WP7. The previous owner left all of her text messages and emails on the device, and she kept writing about how she hated the phone so much. Needless to say, it didn't cost very much. You can test everything without a phone plan (minus any transfer speeds over edge or 3G). I suspect the same is the case for an iPhone (though I own one already) and Android (haven't done any work there).
If you're broke, it is.