So who do I believe, if this article is hosted at a uidaho site? Surely if it is not a state, then there can be no state university? Oh jeez i feel a headache coming...
That hardware sales any more are either near 0 margin, or loss leaders. Especially in the case of playstations/xboxes. Its one thing to not get to sell games to customers, but when sony/ms essentially PAYS you to take a console that you will buy no games for, it stings pretty bad.
sure its good for the hardware, but the company making it won't feel the same way.
Objects traveling in low Earth orbit--even those as small as marble or grains of sand--are traveling at a speed equivalent to a 1-ton safe being dropped from a five-story building.
I think when a 1-ton safe is dropped from a 5 story building, it's not the speed that you worry about. It would only get to about 70mph anyway. What's the force equivalent of space debris in trucks-hitting-walls?
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They need better item tracking through means that can't easily be forged. Such as, embedded serial numbers of various types or simply more competent employees to work the returns counter.
How often do you check it? Can you say for certain that you have metered its availability nearly enough to make a conclusion like that? Saying "it's there whenever *i* needed it" doesn't count.
'Bad things' happen all the time in places we'd least expect, and it's unfortunate. But CP (a place near and dear to me) has a history of building the biggest, scariest, safest coasters on the planet. Sure, there is still a probability that things will completely fail and the ride will explode and kill everyone on board. There's also a chance a meteor will hit lake Erie and a tsunami will wash away the CP peninsula. Which are you worried about?
Define 'fail'. The software is not perfect, the ride still occasionally fails to reach optimal velocity and the riders are shot to the top only to ride backwards down the ascent hill, a rather harrowing experience for riders and obervers who are not aware that its a perfectly normal mode of operation. More importantly, it spends a lot of the time completely disabled, hurting the parks reputation and incidentally costing them lots of money.
The acceleration and braking systems all contain many mechanical fail-safes, the sort that do NOT fail EVER, thanks to superb engineering. Its the same old story, hardware runs forever, if they could only get the dang software right.
By World War II, in the United States, computing power was measured not in megahertz or teraflops, but in kilogirls.
For what it's worth, I still measure a computer's ability in 'kilogirls' but its not necessarily related to the processor power...
Don't forget thats $9 times 3, for each of the trilogy, for those sorry souls satisfied with only seeing each movie once in the theater. At $27 a person, that could feed a lot of hungry people.
Since they are not considered a common carrier, are they going to be held responsible for the content, including copyright issues, indecency issues, etc? This could have some interesting ramifications like forcing them to prove beyond doubt that a customer was responsible for content, instead of being able to finger-point as soon as the RIAA/MPAA come knocking.
But sadly this isnt that revolutionary, nor is it very 'green'. It takes a cold source of water to work, and if you have none in your area (tap water wont cut it unless you happen to get fed from a pipe running through a glacier) you have to get cold media from your local refridgerator/freezer. Why not instead rig a direct cycle through your cooling appliance of choice to offer a small, localized cooling effect? It also wouldn't waste water. Just remember, don't try to cool the room with the freezer in it.
A good key logger will monitor anything coming and going from the clipboard. If you want to be paranoid, dont trust info on a machine you cant verify, assume whatever you do is going to end up on a billboard.
How do you know its specifically a search engine? To quote the esteemed Lt. Jim Dangle: "Google? This is the Sheriff's department, we don't use f***g Google!"
That's not how geeks reproduce at all. A child is no more likely to take on traits just because his parents have them, he will take on traits according to HOW he is raised. How do you think the current culture evolved? By assimilation! (btw, resistance is indeed futile)
irony meter broken
There's always the option for an automated response from the recipient, followed by an opportunity to send a audio message that will be queued for later use.
A Motherboard can not have two AGP Slots, unless it had a horribly modified bridging set. Reason? AGP is an accelerated graphics *port* not a *bus* altho in fairness PCI-E is port based, but it was designed from the ground up to have multi-device capability whereas AGP was designed to be a SINGLE video adapter interface to the system.
...anonymous cowards are notoriously inaccurate, a motorcycle speedometer is actually more likely to be precise than a car speedometer, considering there is less gearing involved in the bike's drivetrain.
Think if there was a distributed tool where people could submit sites and have a ton of clients spew bad data. it would take a good bit of oversight to make sure this power was only used for good, but it stands a great chance at putting a hurt on spammers/scammers. brilliant!
The best brain excercise that comes naturally to me is harassing other commenters on slashdot. The trick is to spend enough time thinking it out so that it's not construed as a troll (at first glance anyway). This is great fun and it keeps you learning new things. Win/win!
7. Do crossword puzzles or something that engages your brain most every day. You meet a lot of cute girls that way...
Maybe someone should explain... the crossword puzzle is the black and white grid thingy with short bits next to it like 'do as this in rome'. This is NOT, I repeat NOT to be confused with the 'cute girls' section, which usually involves a toll call...
You did legally obtain the licenses for XP, Office, and VS didn't you? Not that i disagree, I use the MS suite because it 'just works' but the trade off is that it costs a fair amount, probably more than the hardware it runs on.
I would consider myself a 'fan' of anything that can do the particular job the best. For a home desktop I don't have to think about, you bet I'm a fan of Windows.
That's preposterous. The only thing you could usefully do is try to skim money off each card one at a time, in an inconspicuous way. Its not hard to trace credit card activity though, and you will get caught before long.
Think about it... the ability to wire in a sarcasm trigger to our brains, letting people truly indicate the grade of smartassedness they intended their communique to have. This is a GREAT discovery.
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So who do I believe, if this article is hosted at a uidaho site? Surely if it is not a state, then there can be no state university? Oh jeez i feel a headache coming...
That hardware sales any more are either near 0 margin, or loss leaders. Especially in the case of playstations/xboxes. Its one thing to not get to sell games to customers, but when sony/ms essentially PAYS you to take a console that you will buy no games for, it stings pretty bad.
sure its good for the hardware, but the company making it won't feel the same way.
Objects traveling in low Earth orbit--even those as small as marble or grains of sand--are traveling at a speed equivalent to a 1-ton safe being dropped from a five-story building. I think when a 1-ton safe is dropped from a 5 story building, it's not the speed that you worry about. It would only get to about 70mph anyway. What's the force equivalent of space debris in trucks-hitting-walls?
They need better item tracking through means that can't easily be forged. Such as, embedded serial numbers of various types or simply more competent employees to work the returns counter.
And since noone else mentioned it, the PS2 also has dolby digital output *without the need for a stupid expensive adapter*. nyah.
How often do you check it? Can you say for certain that you have metered its availability nearly enough to make a conclusion like that? Saying "it's there whenever *i* needed it" doesn't count.
'Bad things' happen all the time in places we'd least expect, and it's unfortunate. But CP (a place near and dear to me) has a history of building the biggest, scariest, safest coasters on the planet. Sure, there is still a probability that things will completely fail and the ride will explode and kill everyone on board. There's also a chance a meteor will hit lake Erie and a tsunami will wash away the CP peninsula. Which are you worried about?
Define 'fail'. The software is not perfect, the ride still occasionally fails to reach optimal velocity and the riders are shot to the top only to ride backwards down the ascent hill, a rather harrowing experience for riders and obervers who are not aware that its a perfectly normal mode of operation. More importantly, it spends a lot of the time completely disabled, hurting the parks reputation and incidentally costing them lots of money.
The acceleration and braking systems all contain many mechanical fail-safes, the sort that do NOT fail EVER, thanks to superb engineering. Its the same old story, hardware runs forever, if they could only get the dang software right.
By World War II, in the United States, computing power was measured not in megahertz or teraflops, but in kilogirls.
For what it's worth, I still measure a computer's ability in 'kilogirls' but its not necessarily related to the processor power...
Don't forget thats $9 times 3, for each of the trilogy, for those sorry souls satisfied with only seeing each movie once in the theater. At $27 a person, that could feed a lot of hungry people.
Since they are not considered a common carrier, are they going to be held responsible for the content, including copyright issues, indecency issues, etc? This could have some interesting ramifications like forcing them to prove beyond doubt that a customer was responsible for content, instead of being able to finger-point as soon as the RIAA/MPAA come knocking.
But sadly this isnt that revolutionary, nor is it very 'green'. It takes a cold source of water to work, and if you have none in your area (tap water wont cut it unless you happen to get fed from a pipe running through a glacier) you have to get cold media from your local refridgerator/freezer. Why not instead rig a direct cycle through your cooling appliance of choice to offer a small, localized cooling effect? It also wouldn't waste water. Just remember, don't try to cool the room with the freezer in it.
A good key logger will monitor anything coming and going from the clipboard. If you want to be paranoid, dont trust info on a machine you cant verify, assume whatever you do is going to end up on a billboard.
How do you know its specifically a search engine? To quote the esteemed Lt. Jim Dangle: "Google? This is the Sheriff's department, we don't use f***g Google!"
That's not how geeks reproduce at all. A child is no more likely to take on traits just because his parents have them, he will take on traits according to HOW he is raised. How do you think the current culture evolved? By assimilation! (btw, resistance is indeed futile) irony meter broken
There's always the option for an automated response from the recipient, followed by an opportunity to send a audio message that will be queued for later use.
A Motherboard can not have two AGP Slots, unless it had a horribly modified bridging set. Reason? AGP is an accelerated graphics *port* not a *bus* altho in fairness PCI-E is port based, but it was designed from the ground up to have multi-device capability whereas AGP was designed to be a SINGLE video adapter interface to the system.
...anonymous cowards are notoriously inaccurate, a motorcycle speedometer is actually more likely to be precise than a car speedometer, considering there is less gearing involved in the bike's drivetrain.
slashdot effect? once a site hits +5 spam, start the denial of service.
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Think if there was a distributed tool where people could submit sites and have a ton of clients spew bad data. it would take a good bit of oversight to make sure this power was only used for good, but it stands a great chance at putting a hurt on spammers/scammers. brilliant!
The best brain excercise that comes naturally to me is harassing other commenters on slashdot. The trick is to spend enough time thinking it out so that it's not construed as a troll (at first glance anyway). This is great fun and it keeps you learning new things. Win/win!
7. Do crossword puzzles or something that engages your brain most every day. You meet a lot of cute girls that way ...
Maybe someone should explain... the crossword puzzle is the black and white grid thingy with short bits next to it like 'do as this in rome'. This is NOT, I repeat NOT to be confused with the 'cute girls' section, which usually involves a toll call...
You did legally obtain the licenses for XP, Office, and VS didn't you? Not that i disagree, I use the MS suite because it 'just works' but the trade off is that it costs a fair amount, probably more than the hardware it runs on. I would consider myself a 'fan' of anything that can do the particular job the best. For a home desktop I don't have to think about, you bet I'm a fan of Windows.
That's preposterous. The only thing you could usefully do is try to skim money off each card one at a time, in an inconspicuous way. Its not hard to trace credit card activity though, and you will get caught before long.
Think about it... the ability to wire in a sarcasm trigger to our brains, letting people truly indicate the grade of smartassedness they intended their communique to have. This is a GREAT discovery.