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And cripple any vehicle with electronic ignition which would be all the ones newer than about 30 years old. More diesel vehicles would survive, but newer ones use electronic fuel injection. I suppose this wouldn't do much in Cuba where they keep rebuilding 50's American cars because of the trade embargo.
First person shooters that don't force you to use a gamepad. Hardcore flight sims and racing sims like Jane's F-15, Grand Prix Legends, and GP4. Consoles are catching up with online multiplayer gaming, but PCs have a big lead there.
That's true. The cost of phones is subsidized by carriers. Ask for the price of an unactivated phone if you want to know how much they really cost. Be prepared for major sticker shock. Even used mid-range phones sell on Ebay for over $100.
I tried gaming on a 400Mhz Dell Axim. Morphgear is a pretty good arcade and console emulator, but it's just a little choppy with the sound on. The big problem is the controls. The directional pad is a little mushy and imprecise. Maybe it's better on other PDAs. The IPAQs I've seen in stores have a more substantial click on the pad. I also don't think the buttons were built to take the constant pounding of gaming and they're obviously not replacable. Still, for non-action games like Final Fantasy or Nethack it works fine.
Yes, the other loopholes are "survey" and "preexisting business relationship". If you fall in that second category, most companies will send their privacy policy with an opt-out form every year, and they'll still have to honor your request to be taken off their list when they call.
The overall architecture of consoles is specialized for gaming, but the CPUs themselves have definitely been standard commodity parts. Sony is the exception here, but for the rest they've used processors like the 6502, 68000, SH-4 (also used in some CE PDAs), and Powerpc. Still, the CPU is only a fraction of the processing power in a game console compared to the graphics and sound. You could say the same about a PC with a high end graphics card.
That creationist argument is debunked here (number 15):
"Yet evolutionary biologists have answers to these objections. First, there exist flagellae with forms simpler than the one that Behe cites, so it is not necessary for all those components to be present for a flagellum to work. The sophisticated components of this flagellum all have precedents elsewhere in nature, as described by Kenneth R. Miller of Brown University and others. In fact, the entire flagellum assembly is extremely similar to an organelle that Yersinia pestis, the bubonic plague bacterium, uses to inject toxins into cells."
I suspect either this or environmental regulations would be the problem. You can't drive LA to Vegas completely off road. You'd have to cross public highways (some of them very busy) at some point which is where the local authorities come in. Those places would likely be designated waypoints. Environmental red tape is the other factor. The Barstow to Vegas desert race was last run in 1989, and since then even more of the desert has been closed to off road vehicles. They might only have approval for 20 vehicles.
Nah, TV shows suck as much as they always had. Have you actually watched an old Knight Rider rerun lately? I rest my case.
What's happening is that more and more forms of entertainment are competing for a finite amount of people's time and money. Game consoles, computer gaming, web surfing, IM, 300 channel digital cable, free long distance and free night and weekends on cellphones. All things you can do without leaving the house, and therefore, competing for the couch potatoes' dollars. Some of these things have been around a while, but they've all exploded in popularity the last few years.
They've made statements like that before. Like Stan and Kyle's speech to George Lucas is Episode 609, Free Hat, where Lucas was going to remake Raiders of the Lost Ark into a special edition and destroy all the old prints.
http://www.spscriptorium.com/Season6/E609script. ht m
Kyle: It's not too late to do what's right. Give us the print. There's still some good in you, Mr. Lucas. We know there is. [Lucas hangs his head in shame and turns away] George Lucas: It is... too late for me, boys. Kyle: You yourself led the campaign against the colorization of films. You understand why films shouldn't be changed. George Lucas: M-that's different. These are my movies. I made them, and I have the right to do whatever I want with them Stan: [steps forward] You're wrong, Mr. Lucas. They're not your movies. They're ours. All of ours. We paid to go see them, and they're just as much a part of our lives as they are of yours. Kyle: When an artist creates, whatever they create belongs to society George Lucas: Have I... become so old that I've forgetten what being an artist is about?
I think you misunderstand me. When I said housing and healthcare, I was only giving examples of things that are expensive in the US, not relating them to obesity.
Yes, I know you don't need expensive equipment to exercise. It's as much a cultural or demographic thing. Two factors here: 1) Food is cheap enough in America that anyone can afford to be a glutton. 2) Wealthier people tend to exercise more and be more aware of health and nutrition.
"If I drive way too fast, I have an accident and die."
The problem with traffic congestion isn't driving too fast and dying. It's being stuck in traffic and not taking too long to get anywhere. And yes that is self limiting. If traffic were so bad that it was reduced to walking speed, lots of people would find another way to get there, find another time to go or not bother with the trip.
In America food is cheap but other things are expensive like housing and healthcare. There's a relative abundance of food here, and so you have the strange situation where it's more common to find poor people who are fat because rich people can afford health club memberships, personal trainers, and they're generally more aware of nutrition and health.
Some versions are even sneakier than that. If you scroll all the way to the bottom there's a page full that are checked by default, but if you scroll up one line, you'll see yet another line that's checked by default. If you scrolled straight to the end, you'd miss that one.
Dell's home sales is considered a separate entity from their business sales. Their home store only sells online and over the phone. So they only charge sales tax in TX and maybe one or two other states. Dell's business store does charge sales tax everywhere because they have a physical presence in more states. They have lots of local sales reps for doing business sales. One of the proposed tax laws would do away with that loophole and force companies like Dell to collect sales tax in any state where they do business under that name, even if it's another division like business sales.
PocketOGG or Winampaq on a PocketPC work great. Prices are down to $200 now for low end models (or less for refurb). A CF or SD card will be about $50-70 for 256MB. $250 is getting up to iPod territory so value for your money isn't the best, but you do get a PDA too.
The new Dells with the clamshell tower cases are pretty damn quiet. Nothing fancy, just smart design and a few simple tricks like rubber grommets in the drive rails and a big 120mm case fan that's ducted to the CPU heatsink. Next to it, my homebuilt Athlon sounds like a tornado.
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We know WEP is lax security too. Enough to stop the casual wardriver, but supplemental encryption is needed for really valuable data. It's a pain in the ass, but if you can't do anything else, rekeying after about every 1GB of data will reduce the risk.
Close. PGP can set an eyes only mode for the message where it can only be viewed but not saved. I have no idea how robust it is, i.e. whether it depends on trusted client software or resists screenshot software, but the feature is there. This is really just protection against the casual user. It can't resist retyping by hand or a camera pointed at the screen.
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And cripple any vehicle with electronic ignition which would be all the ones newer than about 30 years old. More diesel vehicles would survive, but newer ones use electronic fuel injection. I suppose this wouldn't do much in Cuba where they keep rebuilding 50's American cars because of the trade embargo.
First person shooters that don't force you to use a gamepad. Hardcore flight sims and racing sims like Jane's F-15, Grand Prix Legends, and GP4. Consoles are catching up with online multiplayer gaming, but PCs have a big lead there.
That's true. The cost of phones is subsidized by carriers. Ask for the price of an unactivated phone if you want to know how much they really cost. Be prepared for major sticker shock. Even used mid-range phones sell on Ebay for over $100.
I tried gaming on a 400Mhz Dell Axim. Morphgear is a pretty good arcade and console emulator, but it's just a little choppy with the sound on. The big problem is the controls. The directional pad is a little mushy and imprecise. Maybe it's better on other PDAs. The IPAQs I've seen in stores have a more substantial click on the pad. I also don't think the buttons were built to take the constant pounding of gaming and they're obviously not replacable. Still, for non-action games like Final Fantasy or Nethack it works fine.
Yes, the other loopholes are "survey" and "preexisting business relationship". If you fall in that second category, most companies will send their privacy policy with an opt-out form every year, and they'll still have to honor your request to be taken off their list when they call.
The overall architecture of consoles is specialized for gaming, but the CPUs themselves have definitely been standard commodity parts. Sony is the exception here, but for the rest they've used processors like the 6502, 68000, SH-4 (also used in some CE PDAs), and Powerpc. Still, the CPU is only a fraction of the processing power in a game console compared to the graphics and sound. You could say the same about a PC with a high end graphics card.
No genetic engineering here. He physically grafted them together. It's 19th Century technology.
That creationist argument is debunked here (number 15):
"Yet evolutionary biologists have answers to these objections. First, there exist flagellae with forms simpler than the one that Behe cites, so it is not necessary for all those components to be present for a flagellum to work. The sophisticated components of this flagellum all have precedents elsewhere in nature, as described by Kenneth R. Miller of Brown University and others. In fact, the entire flagellum assembly is extremely similar to an organelle that Yersinia pestis, the bubonic plague bacterium, uses to inject toxins into cells."
I suspect either this or environmental regulations would be the problem. You can't drive LA to Vegas completely off road. You'd have to cross public highways (some of them very busy) at some point which is where the local authorities come in. Those places would likely be designated waypoints. Environmental red tape is the other factor. The Barstow to Vegas desert race was last run in 1989, and since then even more of the desert has been closed to off road vehicles. They might only have approval for 20 vehicles.
Nah, TV shows suck as much as they always had. Have you actually watched an old Knight Rider rerun lately? I rest my case.
What's happening is that more and more forms of entertainment are competing for a finite amount of people's time and money. Game consoles, computer gaming, web surfing, IM, 300 channel digital cable, free long distance and free night and weekends on cellphones. All things you can do without leaving the house, and therefore, competing for the couch potatoes' dollars. Some of these things have been around a while, but they've all exploded in popularity the last few years.
They've made statements like that before. Like Stan and Kyle's speech to George Lucas is Episode 609, Free Hat, where Lucas was going to remake Raiders of the Lost Ark into a special edition and destroy all the old prints.
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http://www.spscriptorium.com/Season6/E609script
Kyle: It's not too late to do what's right. Give us the print. There's still some good in you, Mr. Lucas. We know there is. [Lucas hangs his head in shame and turns away]
George Lucas: It is... too late for me, boys.
Kyle: You yourself led the campaign against the colorization of films. You understand why films shouldn't be changed.
George Lucas: M-that's different. These are my movies. I made them, and I have the right to do whatever I want with them
Stan: [steps forward] You're wrong, Mr. Lucas. They're not your movies. They're ours. All of ours. We paid to go see them, and they're just as much a part of our lives as they are of yours.
Kyle: When an artist creates, whatever they create belongs to society
George Lucas: Have I... become so old that I've forgetten what being an artist is about?
802.11b isn't THAT efficient. There's 12 channels but because of overlap and interference, only 3 or 4 can be used simultaneously.
I think you misunderstand me. When I said housing and healthcare, I was only giving examples of things that are expensive in the US, not relating them to obesity.
Yes, I know you don't need expensive equipment to exercise. It's as much a cultural or demographic thing. Two factors here: 1) Food is cheap enough in America that anyone can afford to be a glutton. 2) Wealthier people tend to exercise more and be more aware of health and nutrition.
"If I drive way too fast, I have an accident and die."
The problem with traffic congestion isn't driving too fast and dying. It's being stuck in traffic and not taking too long to get anywhere. And yes that is self limiting. If traffic were so bad that it was reduced to walking speed, lots of people would find another way to get there, find another time to go or not bother with the trip.
What's he's talking about is this:
In America food is cheap but other things are expensive like housing and healthcare. There's a relative abundance of food here, and so you have the strange situation where it's more common to find poor people who are fat because rich people can afford health club memberships, personal trainers, and they're generally more aware of nutrition and health.
Some versions are even sneakier than that. If you scroll all the way to the bottom there's a page full that are checked by default, but if you scroll up one line, you'll see yet another line that's checked by default. If you scrolled straight to the end, you'd miss that one.
Dell's home sales is considered a separate entity from their business sales. Their home store only sells online and over the phone. So they only charge sales tax in TX and maybe one or two other states. Dell's business store does charge sales tax everywhere because they have a physical presence in more states. They have lots of local sales reps for doing business sales. One of the proposed tax laws would do away with that loophole and force companies like Dell to collect sales tax in any state where they do business under that name, even if it's another division like business sales.
Are you serious? That's more than a CRT television! I hereby nominate this for the California Rolling Blackout Wise Use of Electricity Award.
It's good that they have a supplier now, but wouldn't that mean that the other 50% is dead weight in water?
Send cash to their fan mail address. Anonymous and easy.
PocketOGG or Winampaq on a PocketPC work great. Prices are down to $200 now for low end models (or less for refurb). A CF or SD card will be about $50-70 for 256MB. $250 is getting up to iPod territory so value for your money isn't the best, but you do get a PDA too.
The new Dells with the clamshell tower cases are pretty damn quiet. Nothing fancy, just smart design and a few simple tricks like rubber grommets in the drive rails and a big 120mm case fan that's ducted to the CPU heatsink. Next to it, my homebuilt Athlon sounds like a tornado.
We know WEP is lax security too. Enough to stop the casual wardriver, but supplemental encryption is needed for really valuable data. It's a pain in the ass, but if you can't do anything else, rekeying after about every 1GB of data will reduce the risk.
Close. PGP can set an eyes only mode for the message where it can only be viewed but not saved. I have no idea how robust it is, i.e. whether it depends on trusted client software or resists screenshot software, but the feature is there. This is really just protection against the casual user. It can't resist retyping by hand or a camera pointed at the screen.