Well I get them for less than a buck a piece ($5 for a six pack) at Costco. Not sure how they do that, since they can be up to $10 in other stores. And yes these are nice small modern CF bulbs.
This is cool. It's a bit like a fax in that instead of sending the electronic document directly from A to B, you're putting it through this extra step, in this case reception at home then retransmission.
The cool thing is not the technology. The cool thing is it challenges the media industry to get their act together with giving consumers more choices for how to consume their media.
Is there an NVIDIA card out that has a good tradeoff between heat and memory?
I'm not going to use it for gaming, but I think I've finally outgrown my measly 8MB cards and would like to go for at least 64 to take advantage of more colors, higher resolution, and hopefully the ability to drive two monitors, while not heating things up too much.
Although your post was already rated flamebait by someone else, I'll assume your question is serious, and answer it.
Anonymity is important in voting because without it, there can be two Bad Things: 1) vote buying (I pay you to vote a certain way, but I'll need proof that you really did vote that way) and 2) coercion (You better vote a certain way or else I'll break your mother's kneecaps).
Anonymity in voting provides assurance that for the most part things like this can't happen, because the bad guys have no way of verifying who you voted for.
I'm speaking out of ignorance here, because I don't know if there's a catch for their POP3 service, but just for reference the catch for one of their other features, forwarding to another address, is that it is "free for now."
>Handhelds, phones... etc. will no longer be viable systems with which to send mail.
Right on. Couldn't have said it better myself. And the issue of battery life for mobile devices, which is directly related to CPU use, is not going away, even if batteries get much, much better.
Sure, it's more expensive per print, but then you print only the ones you want.
If you wanted to do that with film, you have the overhead of running to the store and putting in an order, the risk of handing over your negatives, and then more time spent going back later to pick them up.
Or you could let your negatives go back and forth through the mail system... a decent system, granted, but these are original negatives I'm talking about here...
Point is, there are tradeoffs that make cheap do-it-yourself printing still worth it, if you can also preserve the image files for later.
>I assure you that my SBC phone line is completely dead.
Your assurances aside, even if it sounds dead, 911 should still work.
>No dial tone, no 911.
Actually, you don't need a dial tone to dial 911 (and get successfully connected, must I say). This depends on the area of course, but it certainly is true for SBC customers.
I buy my Skype credits from a site in Europe. Not sure how they are going to be convinced to share my private personal data with the State of California.
Besides, the minutes are so cheap, the government tax seekers may be in for a rude awakening when it dawns on them that even a tax as high as ten percent of one penny is still less than one penny.
It may have been a good idea if VOIP minutely rates compared to real phone rates. But the days of $80 phone calls are gone.
Right, to clarify, I'm talking about the entire picture, whether each piece of hardware is made by AMD or not. But specifically asking about solutions that involve AMD CPUs and chipsets.
I'd be happy to jump (back) from Intel to AMD processors and chipsets (and compatible hardware) if I knew my OS could take advantage of them. My question is, which of FreeBSD or OpenBSD or any flavor of GNU/Linux are a good choice to use the new performance features like 64 bit architecture?
We are seriously off topic here, but this sounds very tempting. I hadn't been paying much attention lately to AMD (due to the heat differences which lead to more need for fan noise or extra cooling options), but wow.
So that leads me to wonder... which GNU/Linux or BSD distros have good support for this kind of hardware currently?
"PS. No need to abuse the script and leech all the data. This is publicly available information, besides we plan to leave it for the entire life of the project and possibly longer;)"
>Sounds like a great idea, but how do you know if someone is closer?
Sounds like the question is serious, so I'll give a serious answer. The IETF is already working on RFPs for this. It's called "care-of addressing". Google is your etc. etc.
I'm looking forward to the day when these kind of personal area networks forward packets for each other in a store-and-forward system. Send email from here to there, bouncing off the jackets of a bunch of geeks you don't know. The packets are stored until a node one step closer to the destination is detected, then they are forwarded.
Instead of tweaking a human to be able to hibernate, just tweak a bear to have the brains to be able to carry out the mission. By the time these missions roll around brain augmentation might be at at sufficient level.
Am I crazy? No, I'm mostly joking. But, ah, you know, think outside of the box, and Go Bears!
For me the deal breaker with this one is the fact that they did not up the camera resolution. It will have better light gathering ability, which is sorely needed, but these days there's just no excuse to have the camera be only 0.3 megapixels. They should have added a 1+ megapixel camera, one, because this is a key feature most of us were looking forward to, and two, because it's a feature that the carriers have no great incentive to turn off.
Interesting way of doing things they have over there.
By the way, I was looking at their site, which forcibly resized my browser window without my consent, and I couldn't help but noticing that the site icon appears to be stolen from Sun. Irony, anyone?
>the UK has no "Fair Use" so nothing is covered under it
Oh, but it does.
And actually whether a country's law enshrines this kind of right or not has no bearing on whether the right exists. Governments recognize, enshrine, and respect rights, or do the opposite. They do not grant rigths, or create them. In other words, rights simply exist, separate from governments.
For a license to explicitly "grant" a right that according to common practice should be universal, risks encouraging the overall deterioration of people's ability to enjoy that right.
This might be a step backwards. A more worthy goal might be to work toward getting affirmation that all such sampling, perhaps with sample size limits, is covered under fair use. By promoting a license that explicitly allows this use, it seems CC is validating the view, recently upheld in one single court case, that sampling is never permitted under fair use.
It's a bit as though they had come out and published a new "linking policy license" that web sites could post to explicitly allow other sites to create inbound links. Would that help the overall cause of discouraging bogusly restrictive linking policies? I'm not sure that it would.
James Watt, President Reagan's Secretary of the Interior, was quoted in the Washington Post in 1981 as saying "We don't have to protect the environment, the Second Coming is at hand."
Please tell the young voters what your beliefs regarding the Second Coming are, and how those beliefs influence your choices on long-term policy matters such as energy, the environment, and foreign relations.
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>You'd have to take out a second mortgage...
Well I get them for less than a buck a piece ($5 for a six pack) at Costco. Not sure how they do that, since they can be up to $10 in other stores. And yes these are nice small modern CF bulbs.
This is cool. It's a bit like a fax in that instead of sending the electronic document directly from A to B, you're putting it through this extra step, in this case reception at home then retransmission.
The cool thing is not the technology. The cool thing is it challenges the media industry to get their act together with giving consumers more choices for how to consume their media.
Is there an NVIDIA card out that has a good tradeoff between heat and memory?
I'm not going to use it for gaming, but I think I've finally outgrown my measly 8MB cards and would like to go for at least 64 to take advantage of more colors, higher resolution, and hopefully the ability to drive two monitors, while not heating things up too much.
>Since when was [anonymity] important?
Although your post was already rated flamebait by someone else, I'll assume your question is serious, and answer it.
Anonymity is important in voting because without it, there can be two Bad Things: 1) vote buying (I pay you to vote a certain way, but I'll need proof that you really did vote that way) and 2) coercion (You better vote a certain way or else I'll break your mother's kneecaps).
Anonymity in voting provides assurance that for the most part things like this can't happen, because the bad guys have no way of verifying who you voted for.
I'm speaking out of ignorance here, because I don't know if there's a catch for their POP3 service, but just for reference the catch for one of their other features, forwarding to another address, is that it is "free for now."
>Handhelds, phones ... etc. will no longer be viable systems with which to send mail.
Right on. Couldn't have said it better myself. And the issue of battery life for mobile devices, which is directly related to CPU use, is not going away, even if batteries get much, much better.
Sure, it's more expensive per print, but then you print only the ones you want.
If you wanted to do that with film, you have the overhead of running to the store and putting in an order, the risk of handing over your negatives, and then more time spent going back later to pick them up.
Or you could let your negatives go back and forth through the mail system... a decent system, granted, but these are original negatives I'm talking about here...
Point is, there are tradeoffs that make cheap do-it-yourself printing still worth it, if you can also preserve the image files for later.
>I assure you that my SBC phone line is completely dead.
Your assurances aside, even if it sounds dead, 911 should still work.
>No dial tone, no 911.
Actually, you don't need a dial tone to dial 911 (and get successfully connected, must I say). This depends on the area of course, but it certainly is true for SBC customers.
Oops, and -now- I notice it's not Arnold doing it, but city governments. Well just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they're not after you!
I buy my Skype credits from a site in Europe. Not sure how they are going to be convinced to share my private personal data with the State of California.
Besides, the minutes are so cheap, the government tax seekers may be in for a rude awakening when it dawns on them that even a tax as high as ten percent of one penny is still less than one penny.
It may have been a good idea if VOIP minutely rates compared to real phone rates. But the days of $80 phone calls are gone.
Right, to clarify, I'm talking about the entire picture, whether each piece of hardware is made by AMD or not. But specifically asking about solutions that involve AMD CPUs and chipsets.
I'd be happy to jump (back) from Intel to AMD processors and chipsets (and compatible hardware) if I knew my OS could take advantage of them. My question is, which of FreeBSD or OpenBSD or any flavor of GNU/Linux are a good choice to use the new performance features like 64 bit architecture?
I can feel some kind of electromagnetic field emanating from Fry's and pulling my credit card in that general direction...
Which GNU/Linux and especially BSD distros are ready to take advantage of the full power of the AMD hardware offerings these days?
>...1600mhz FSB ... 64 bits ... DDR4
We are seriously off topic here, but this sounds very tempting. I hadn't been paying much attention lately to AMD (due to the heat differences which lead to more need for fan noise or extra cooling options), but wow.
So that leads me to wonder... which GNU/Linux or BSD distros have good support for this kind of hardware currently?
I think it's too easy for them to split hairs with "don't be evil" and get away with stuff like this. They need a new slogan: don't be lame.
"PS. No need to abuse the script and leech all the data. This is publicly available information, besides we plan to leave it for the entire life of the project and possibly longer
>Sounds like a great idea, but how do you know if someone is closer?
Sounds like the question is serious, so I'll give a serious answer. The IETF is already working on RFPs for this. It's called "care-of addressing". Google is your etc. etc.
I'm looking forward to the day when these kind of personal area networks forward packets for each other in a store-and-forward system. Send email from here to there, bouncing off the jackets of a bunch of geeks you don't know. The packets are stored until a node one step closer to the destination is detected, then they are forwarded.
Instead of tweaking a human to be able to hibernate, just tweak a bear to have the brains to be able to carry out the mission. By the time these missions roll around brain augmentation might be at at sufficient level.
Am I crazy? No, I'm mostly joking. But, ah, you know, think outside of the box, and Go Bears!
Do a Google search for Bush flip flops and you'll see there is a whole pile of issues Bush has flip-flopped on.
The really frightening thing is some doctors think he is showing signs of pre-senile dementia.
For me the deal breaker with this one is the fact that they did not up the camera resolution. It will have better light gathering ability, which is sorely needed, but these days there's just no excuse to have the camera be only 0.3 megapixels. They should have added a 1+ megapixel camera, one, because this is a key feature most of us were looking forward to, and two, because it's a feature that the carriers have no great incentive to turn off.
Interesting way of doing things they have over there.
By the way, I was looking at their site, which forcibly resized my browser window without my consent, and I couldn't help but noticing that the site icon appears to be stolen from Sun. Irony, anyone?
>the UK has no "Fair Use" so nothing is covered under it
Oh, but it does.
And actually whether a country's law enshrines this kind of right or not has no bearing on whether the right exists. Governments recognize, enshrine, and respect rights, or do the opposite. They do not grant rigths, or create them. In other words, rights simply exist, separate from governments.
For a license to explicitly "grant" a right that according to common practice should be universal, risks encouraging the overall deterioration of people's ability to enjoy that right.
This might be a step backwards. A more worthy goal might be to work toward getting affirmation that all such sampling, perhaps with sample size limits, is covered under fair use. By promoting a license that explicitly allows this use, it seems CC is validating the view, recently upheld in one single court case, that sampling is never permitted under fair use.
It's a bit as though they had come out and published a new "linking policy license" that web sites could post to explicitly allow other sites to create inbound links. Would that help the overall cause of discouraging bogusly restrictive linking policies? I'm not sure that it would.
Haha, oops. Pays to read the full story before posting!
James Watt, President Reagan's Secretary of the Interior, was quoted in the Washington Post in 1981 as saying "We don't have to protect the environment, the Second Coming is at hand."
Please tell the young voters what your beliefs regarding the Second Coming are, and how those beliefs influence your choices on long-term policy matters such as energy, the environment, and foreign relations.