Typ, that is already done in Europe - left lane for overpassing (for faster cars essentially), right line to be occupied if there is no need to use left lane. I have always wondered why American car users need to have three lanes each way none if which are prioritized.
So, no need for autonomous cars. Just some legislature changes.
My thought exactly. Isn't that, i don't know, victimless crime? Do pixels dream of electronic sheep or is it like smoking weed, you get prosecuted for making good to you and not harming anyone in the process? I meam, come on, will a 3d animator that models naked underage children get sentenced as soon as his 3dmax or blender or whatever finishes rendering?
That's the cost of being an early adopter. You should be proud of that, man! How many of *them* never heard of Apple Newton - even though it had just a little too slow processor to handle it's software power? Raise your hand, if you know what it feels to have Gravis Ultrasound just to have it killed with Windows 95, or texting and talking with Matrix Neo's Nokia (old 7110) phone - just to realise that even tho the call answering effect is awesome, the phone wears and starts answering - and rejecting - your phones while in your pocket.
Man, I for one love to be ahead of the curve. And even if it means you got to pay the price for some time... still, it's worth it.
It is our genes that push our kind to the Space, and it is our genes that are calling home. Wonderful thing that somewhere in our DNA strands lies our extraterrestial legacy.
It could be the nature that put us here. It must be our civilizational effort to get outta here... before we shred this planet to pieces.
And when you buy that long-waited-for Empire: Total War, you get Steam, and spend HOURS (well, it's a day after the launch) getting said game patched.
Really ruins your experience... especially if you could just download pirated version and stop caring about multiplayer, activation, steam preventing you from even seeing an intro for hours, that you cound spend sleeping, because you go to work like the next guy.
Well, if that's what's it's going to be, I say I'll stick to them torrents. They're so damn easier. Sega, Valve, Ubisoft - they're all going too greedy. And I wish it's still times when you got those five floppies of Space Quest or Larry, or Master of Orion, waited for it to copy to your smallish, pre-internet-era HDD, and then just plainly enjoyed them.
Boy, I wish I could just play the game I just brought home from the store.
Running Vista64 since day one, and Windows 7 for a while, I must say internally both systems look similiar. Some article TL to quote stated that Seven is to Vista like 98SE was to 98. It does not take a rocket scientist to guess MSFT would never release such a dud like XP64 again - it's been overdone (can you say that?) by now.
I'm a TV journalist and had been working for a while on social-related issues; every time I needed a police shoots to broadcast, I just went with my trusty cameraman to the streets and took what we had to take. There never was a problem of being punished for later publications of officers on duty.
But you are certainly right I was mistaken saying that's true for all EU. Well, for Poland it is, I thought since we're less democratic than UK, that it's a freedom you take for granted.
Here in good, ol' Europe no cop will ever ask you to stop shooting photos - if he/she's on duty of course. Best they can do is to turn around. You have the right to video them, photo them when they're doing the job you are paying for.
Still, it breaks the default boot loader (and yes, I use Vista's) by installing grub even if you tell the setup not to. Maybe that's because of me using two disks in RAID mode, however it fails to detect such configuration. Now I know that all those onboard RAID chipsets are "fake", but still I'd love the installer to leave my MBR alone.
BTW, Vista on RAID-0 and Ubuntu on my old 7200rpm barracuda is a stunning performance win for Ubuntu. If I had tu use a laptop, I certainly would choose this Linux distribution as it is really, really fast. But me, I grew up on slackware, I could manage to fix the non-working extra keys or sound or webcam issues. Casual dual booters can't be expected to know how to fiddle around.
No, I really mean it. Sleeping with the window open (provided you don't leave near the railway or in a busy downtown) really solved those issues with many people I know.
That's not the solution to the waste by-product problem. It only pushes it another decade, maybe two away. Storing waste CO2 underneath the surface is just asking for more problems. What happens if that gas is suddenly injected into the atmosphere? What happens is we all start living on, or maybe a couple of mile over, the ticking bomb?
Every energy production that has such a dangerous by-product is not the solution to our problem. Then again, we should think whether the hydrogen is. Don't want to sound like an asshole, but that water vapor those hydrogen-fueled cars produce is not going to vanish either.
I'm not really certain, but if you multiplex the signal, don't you sort of lose control over it? I mean, if it's easier to spot, it's easier to sniff. This would, however, solve the problem of bird flock blocking the 'net access for the whole district. So it really depends.
there should be a difference between point-2-point speed record, and point-2-multipoint, which concerns most of us wifi-users. P2P connections are used mainly in business, and they can have backup links should, let's say' fog happen that will disperse all the transmission (reduced wisibility).
I don't get it. If they say they're compatible with Firefox - as in web browser - why does that browser need to run on a particular operating system? Since invention of flash video we are free from unnecessary plugins and related burden. Just enter address, and let it play.
But I guess politicians never opt for easy solutions.
Imagine having tens of millions, or just millions users - all of them with their records, history, targeted ads data. Or some mail provider that stores attachments in a database. Or a file sharing service like those you and I know. That's a plenty of information to manage. Add an overhead, and it's easy to overfill even the biggest database.
Also I agree with you that bad design might be a concern. Of course there's no big database that couldn't get on a "purge" diet.
Now seems to me we might have a problem with querying such a big bucket of random data. Imagine a query taking months to complete. We're gonna be there in another ten years.
And then we lose the capacity to make electricity. And we can use our CDs, DVDs, let alone magnetic media to... well, dig trenches.
Those pesky petabytes of data are going to doom us.
If only other prominent tech companies (*cough* *microsoft* *cough*) would take this sort of lead and ensure that only products which were found to be free of flaws entered the market, instead of releasing half-baked products and using the customer base as guinea pigs... just imagine how better off we'd all be...
And all those MISSes talk about world peace and no starvation. To paraphrase an old joke, "where the hell is that Bosnia?"
GUI's have been there since 1996 if I remember correctly - it was called AMI WinBIOS and was really crappy.
Part of BIOS on Hard Drive? Been there, done that. Every time I get new server to set up, I erase all those partitions and everytime I also, accidentially, erase those hidden BIOS partitions with utilities. I never need them, hell, I'VE GOT BOOTABLE CDs WITH APPLICATIONS TO DO DIAGNOSING AND TROUBLESHOOTING!
If we need mouse to configure BIOS settings, then perhaps it's time to die.
...what's wrong with BIOS as for now? I mean everyone here is bashing for new BIOS with BUI and probably some bells & whistles, but NOONE is asking: why the hell would WE need that?
Are you really tired of your ol' "Press DEL to enter setup" way of configuring your PC?
And the idea of having part of BIOS on your hard disk (in some hidden place, preferably) - I know it's not new - but it's really silly. I may need those utilities when my disk fails, to try and recover something, but if those applications have to be located on HD, it's really pointless.
I don't think we should get rid of BIOS. It's serving it's purpose for so many years and we all can - and should - live with that.
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Typ, that is already done in Europe - left lane for overpassing (for faster cars essentially), right line to be occupied if there is no need to use left lane. I have always wondered why American car users need to have three lanes each way none if which are prioritized.
So, no need for autonomous cars. Just some legislature changes.
My thought exactly. Isn't that, i don't know, victimless crime? Do pixels dream of electronic sheep or is it like smoking weed, you get prosecuted for making good to you and not harming anyone in the process? I meam, come on, will a 3d animator that models naked underage children get sentenced as soon as his 3dmax or blender or whatever finishes rendering?
He said, "study ur anus", Beavis! He heh hehehee he
That's the cost of being an early adopter. You should be proud of that, man! How many of *them* never heard of Apple Newton - even though it had just a little too slow processor to handle it's software power? Raise your hand, if you know what it feels to have Gravis Ultrasound just to have it killed with Windows 95, or texting and talking with Matrix Neo's Nokia (old 7110) phone - just to realise that even tho the call answering effect is awesome, the phone wears and starts answering - and rejecting - your phones while in your pocket.
Man, I for one love to be ahead of the curve. And even if it means you got to pay the price for some time... still, it's worth it.
It is our genes that push our kind to the Space, and it is our genes that are calling home. Wonderful thing that somewhere in our DNA strands lies our extraterrestial legacy.
It could be the nature that put us here. It must be our civilizational effort to get outta here... before we shred this planet to pieces.
Can you imagine the accuracy of a Beowulf cluster of that?
And when you buy that long-waited-for Empire: Total War, you get Steam, and spend HOURS (well, it's a day after the launch) getting said game patched.
Really ruins your experience... especially if you could just download pirated version and stop caring about multiplayer, activation, steam preventing you from even seeing an intro for hours, that you cound spend sleeping, because you go to work like the next guy.
Well, if that's what's it's going to be, I say I'll stick to them torrents. They're so damn easier. Sega, Valve, Ubisoft - they're all going too greedy. And I wish it's still times when you got those five floppies of Space Quest or Larry, or Master of Orion, waited for it to copy to your smallish, pre-internet-era HDD, and then just plainly enjoyed them.
Boy, I wish I could just play the game I just brought home from the store.
My Vista64, my Windows Mobile, my Android cell phone, even by simple 3G handset Motorola Z8 browser (supposedly an opera clone) do not support Flash.
For Vista, there's a workaround, you can always fall back to 32-bit IE, but for those mobile devices I say Flash is a no-no.
Hell, even iPhone's Safari doesn't play flash.
I'd say they are ourtight liars. And must I also point out, I started disliking the format for quite some time.
Running Vista64 since day one, and Windows 7 for a while, I must say internally both systems look similiar. Some article TL to quote stated that Seven is to Vista like 98SE was to 98. It does not take a rocket scientist to guess MSFT would never release such a dud like XP64 again - it's been overdone (can you say that?) by now.
Yes, it happens all the time: the Swedish Academy can change their vote any time, if it feels pressed by the media.
Well that's not true, at least for Poland.
I'm a TV journalist and had been working for a while on social-related issues; every time I needed a police shoots to broadcast, I just went with my trusty cameraman to the streets and took what we had to take. There never was a problem of being punished for later publications of officers on duty.
But you are certainly right I was mistaken saying that's true for all EU. Well, for Poland it is, I thought since we're less democratic than UK, that it's a freedom you take for granted.
Imagine my surprise now.
Here in good, ol' Europe no cop will ever ask you to stop shooting photos - if he/she's on duty of course. Best they can do is to turn around. You have the right to video them, photo them when they're doing the job you are paying for.
Still, it breaks the default boot loader (and yes, I use Vista's) by installing grub even if you tell the setup not to. Maybe that's because of me using two disks in RAID mode, however it fails to detect such configuration. Now I know that all those onboard RAID chipsets are "fake", but still I'd love the installer to leave my MBR alone.
BTW, Vista on RAID-0 and Ubuntu on my old 7200rpm barracuda is a stunning performance win for Ubuntu. If I had tu use a laptop, I certainly would choose this Linux distribution as it is really, really fast. But me, I grew up on slackware, I could manage to fix the non-working extra keys or sound or webcam issues. Casual dual booters can't be expected to know how to fiddle around.
Yo, mate, try opening your window.
No, I really mean it. Sleeping with the window open (provided you don't leave near the railway or in a busy downtown) really solved those issues with many people I know.
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That's not the solution to the waste by-product problem. It only pushes it another decade, maybe two away. Storing waste CO2 underneath the surface is just asking for more problems. What happens if that gas is suddenly injected into the atmosphere? What happens is we all start living on, or maybe a couple of mile over, the ticking bomb?
Every energy production that has such a dangerous by-product is not the solution to our problem. Then again, we should think whether the hydrogen is. Don't want to sound like an asshole, but that water vapor those hydrogen-fueled cars produce is not going to vanish either.
I'm not really certain, but if you multiplex the signal, don't you sort of lose control over it? I mean, if it's easier to spot, it's easier to sniff. This would, however, solve the problem of bird flock blocking the 'net access for the whole district. So it really depends.
there should be a difference between point-2-point speed record, and point-2-multipoint, which concerns most of us wifi-users. P2P connections are used mainly in business, and they can have backup links should, let's say' fog happen that will disperse all the transmission (reduced wisibility).
And NO CARRIER would actually mean something now.
I don't get it. If they say they're compatible with Firefox - as in web browser - why does that browser need to run on a particular operating system? Since invention of flash video we are free from unnecessary plugins and related burden. Just enter address, and let it play.
But I guess politicians never opt for easy solutions.
Imagine having tens of millions, or just millions users - all of them with their records, history, targeted ads data. Or some mail provider that stores attachments in a database. Or a file sharing service like those you and I know. That's a plenty of information to manage. Add an overhead, and it's easy to overfill even the biggest database.
Also I agree with you that bad design might be a concern. Of course there's no big database that couldn't get on a "purge" diet.
Now seems to me we might have a problem with querying such a big bucket of random data. Imagine a query taking months to complete. We're gonna be there in another ten years.
And then we lose the capacity to make electricity. And we can use our CDs, DVDs, let alone magnetic media to... well, dig trenches.
Those pesky petabytes of data are going to doom us.
Make a set of protons of myself and then teleport me, one proton at a time, to that chick next door I've been dying to meet. Is that too much to ask?
And all those MISSes talk about world peace and no starvation. To paraphrase an old joke, "where the hell is that Bosnia?"
What a piece of nonsence. Imagine RF antenna and a XX-century radio receiver. Sure it's not digital, but it's pretty simple.
GUI's have been there since 1996 if I remember correctly - it was called AMI WinBIOS and was really crappy.
Part of BIOS on Hard Drive? Been there, done that. Every time I get new server to set up, I erase all those partitions and everytime I also, accidentially, erase those hidden BIOS partitions with utilities. I never need them, hell, I'VE GOT BOOTABLE CDs WITH APPLICATIONS TO DO DIAGNOSING AND TROUBLESHOOTING!
If we need mouse to configure BIOS settings, then perhaps it's time to die.
...what's wrong with BIOS as for now? I mean everyone here is bashing for new BIOS with BUI and probably some bells & whistles, but NOONE is asking: why the hell would WE need that?
Are you really tired of your ol' "Press DEL to enter setup" way of configuring your PC?
And the idea of having part of BIOS on your hard disk (in some hidden place, preferably) - I know it's not new - but it's really silly. I may need those utilities when my disk fails, to try and recover something, but if those applications have to be located on HD, it's really pointless.
I don't think we should get rid of BIOS. It's serving it's purpose for so many years and we all can - and should - live with that.
If it ain't broken, don't fix it - okay?