On any internet forum, it is a good idea to lurk for a while before posting. That way, you are less likely to look like an idiot, then have to make lame attempts and sarcastic insult to try to save face.
This study is bullshit. The proper way to do this experiment is this:
1) Install an accelerometer on subjects' cars. This must be done either secretly or under the guise of it being something else. 2) Have half the group do nothing for x hours per week, have the other half play GTA. Have them to something else, too--you don't want people guessing it is their driving which is being tested. 3) See if the cars of people who play games accelerate more frequently or severely than those who do not.
Oh no! You mean to say that Microsoft priced themselves out of a small, low-margin market (home PC builders) in order to keep profits high in a large, high-margin market (corporate and new PCs)?? What fools!!
I experience migraines after consumption of as little as a soda's worth. Just because you don't does not make the substance less problematic or any less toxic.
And peanuts are toxic too, by that reasoning. We never should have allowed them in to the food supply. Quickly! Burn the estate of George Washington Carver!
Bullshit. The biosphere is in a perpetual state of unbalance! There is a constant churn of species due to extinction, evolution, and environmental change. The fact that you use phrases like "mutant frek genes" shows you don't really understand the topic.
The only scientific study of aspartame I have heard of showed no adverse affects in diet vs. regular soft drink consumers, but did show a slightly lower incidence of throat cancer in the diet pop drinkers. This study came out about a year ago. There has been something new since then?
Once official N gear starts hitting store shelves in full force, the G stuff is going to go "free after rebate" to clear the shelves.
Then we will see people buying trunk-fulls of G access points, and distributing grids of the free access points all over their property, providing greater coverage and more (net) bandwidth for the cost of $0 + time.
The universe popped into existence from nothing, or
A complex, intelligent, powerful creature (presumably with a beard) popped into existence from nothing, then one day decided to create the universe from nothing.
If you chose #2, it's turtles all the way down.........
Interesting... I'm to sensitive to sleep in a chair, and I get sick reading while moving, but someone with neither of those problems could make good use of bus time.
I realize language changes with time, but it sincerely annoys me when the uneducated misappropriate words and phrases they hear doctors, lawyers, scientists, and other educated professionals use in order to sound more intelligent.
When a common fool steals the legal and logical phrase "beg the question," it's bad enough. A worse case is when the pseudo-scientific, pseudo-religious "new age" twits use the word "energy" and its related concepts from physics to support their crack-pot views on psychological "energy." And then PBS picks up their crap and broadcasts it to the country, making our entire nation dumber.
Ok, sorry, had to rant. Mod me offtopic, please. Just mod the parent up so we can beat some idiocy out of slashdot.
I live in a big city, but it's not big enough to have any sort of rail.
It seems to me that there is less of a stigma toward rail. And cities dense enough to support rail don't have as much stigma toward public transit in general, but it is still exists and is widespread.
If I put one of these in a regular laptop--one which supports DriveLock, but nothing else--can this disk use the DriveLock password as the encryption key?
If that were the case, it would be a simple matter to retrofit existing laptops (which use DriveLock to protect the disks) with the improved security of full-blown encryption. And it could be done without any perceptible changes to the user!
This could be a great product if they just Keep It Simple so that it works seamlessly with the already widely-deployed ATA Security Mode (DriveLock) protocol.
I'm trying to imagine how a bus would save time over driving... Maybe under unusual conditions... maybe. Around here, I can either drive directly to work (which takes 15 minutes) or ride the bus, which stops at every bus stop and would take me 40 minutes for the same trip.
Driving takes far less time in the majority of situations.
In the USA, riding a (public) bus is considered a sad act of a desperate person. It's in our culture. The thought of highly-educated professionals sharing ideas on the way to work in public bus is almost inconceivable. The last time I rode the bus, I was surrounded by people who were obviously on drugs, didn't bathe, had every manner of severe neurological disorder...
It would be nice if that could change, but I can't imagine it happening any time soon.
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On any internet forum, it is a good idea to lurk for a while before posting. That way, you are less likely to look like an idiot, then have to make lame attempts and sarcastic insult to try to save face.
This study is bullshit. The proper way to do this experiment is this:
1) Install an accelerometer on subjects' cars. This must be done either secretly or under the guise of it being something else.
2) Have half the group do nothing for x hours per week, have the other half play GTA. Have them to something else, too--you don't want people guessing it is their driving which is being tested.
3) See if the cars of people who play games accelerate more frequently or severely than those who do not.
Oh no! You mean to say that Microsoft priced themselves out of a small, low-margin market (home PC builders) in order to keep profits high in a large, high-margin market (corporate and new PCs)?? What fools!!
MrCopilot, meet my sig.
A "dirty snowball" sounds like something that would cost extra in a brothel.
Change is the only constant.
The only scientific study of aspartame I have heard of showed no adverse affects in diet vs. regular soft drink consumers, but did show a slightly lower incidence of throat cancer in the diet pop drinkers. This study came out about a year ago. There has been something new since then?
If aspartame really was demonstrably toxic, why haven't I seen news of the billion-dollar lawsuits? Lawyers would be all of that, I would think.
I would argue that the concept of "morality" only exists to perpetuate society.
Why stop at segregating porn? Shouldn't we also segregate violent content? Hate speech? False religions? Bad manners?
Won't someone please think of the children???
Once official N gear starts hitting store shelves in full force, the G stuff is going to go "free after rebate" to clear the shelves.
Then we will see people buying trunk-fulls of G access points, and distributing grids of the free access points all over their property, providing greater coverage and more (net) bandwidth for the cost of $0 + time.
If you chose #2, it's turtles all the way down...
Oh, come off your high horse. You anti-stereotypers are all the same.
You forgot the crossbow. The Pope himself declared it to be an immoral weapon.
A hydrogen-filled blimp with docks for solar-powered planes could allow me to reign over those fools on the surface almost indefinitely!
Interesting... I'm to sensitive to sleep in a chair, and I get sick reading while moving, but someone with neither of those problems could make good use of bus time.
I would mod you up, but my points have expired.
I realize language changes with time, but it sincerely annoys me when the uneducated misappropriate words and phrases they hear doctors, lawyers, scientists, and other educated professionals use in order to sound more intelligent.
When a common fool steals the legal and logical phrase "beg the question," it's bad enough. A worse case is when the pseudo-scientific, pseudo-religious "new age" twits use the word "energy" and its related concepts from physics to support their crack-pot views on psychological "energy." And then PBS picks up their crap and broadcasts it to the country, making our entire nation dumber.
Ok, sorry, had to rant. Mod me offtopic, please. Just mod the parent up so we can beat some idiocy out of slashdot.
Get back or I shall slay you with my +9 Pork Chop of Gluttony!
I live in a big city, but it's not big enough to have any sort of rail.
It seems to me that there is less of a stigma toward rail. And cities dense enough to support rail don't have as much stigma toward public transit in general, but it is still exists and is widespread.
If I put one of these in a regular laptop--one which supports DriveLock, but nothing else--can this disk use the DriveLock password as the encryption key?
If that were the case, it would be a simple matter to retrofit existing laptops (which use DriveLock to protect the disks) with the improved security of full-blown encryption. And it could be done without any perceptible changes to the user!
This could be a great product if they just Keep It Simple so that it works seamlessly with the already widely-deployed ATA Security Mode (DriveLock) protocol.
The old model is dying. Simple web pages are on the way out. Web applications are the future.
A search engine that indexes web applications is more useful to me than one that can not.
Google realizes that, and you don't.
I'm trying to imagine how a bus would save time over driving... Maybe under unusual conditions... maybe. Around here, I can either drive directly to work (which takes 15 minutes) or ride the bus, which stops at every bus stop and would take me 40 minutes for the same trip.
Driving takes far less time in the majority of situations.
In the USA, riding a (public) bus is considered a sad act of a desperate person. It's in our culture. The thought of highly-educated professionals sharing ideas on the way to work in public bus is almost inconceivable. The last time I rode the bus, I was surrounded by people who were obviously on drugs, didn't bathe, had every manner of severe neurological disorder...
It would be nice if that could change, but I can't imagine it happening any time soon.