Not only does Google want more stuff to go through them they are complicit if not one of the prime agitators of this phenomenon.
For example to get directions to go from the White House to the US Capitol you get this URL (used the quotes so can see the whole URL w/o having to scroll over): "https://www.google.com/maps/dir/The+White+House,+1600+Pennsylvania+Ave+NW,+Washington,+DC+20500/US+Congress+-+Sergeant+at+Arms,+1+S+Capitol+St+SW,+Washington,+DC+20515/@38.8950631,-77.0311265,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m13!4m12!1m5!1m1!1s0x89b7b7bcdecbb1df:0x715969d86d0b76bf!2m2!1d-77.0365298!2d38.8976763!1m5!1m1!1s0x89b7b7b057914a6b:0x617d58ed260bc5e2!2m2!1d-77.0090646!2d38.8899056"
All of the characters after the +20515 is completely unneeded for the above link to work. "https://www.google.com/maps/dir/The+White+House,+1600+Pennsylvania+Ave+NW,+Washington,+DC+20500/US+Congress+-+Sergeant+at+Arms,+1+S+Capitol+St+SW,+Washington,+DC+20515" is all that is needed for the link to work, and can even whittle that down more by another 49 characters to "https://www.google.com/maps/dir/1600+Pennsylvania+Ave+NW,+Washington,+DC+20500/1+S+Capitol+St+SW,+Washington,+DC+20515" and it would still work. Perhaps they should start leading by example and fix what they helped create instead of worrying about what to replace it with.
Dell has a solution to this that Lenovo should be able to implement: The ability to install BIOS updates from a flash drive straight from the boot options menu. No hacks or "firmware services" needed. Actually I am surprised that they don't (but I don't have much experience with modern Thinkpads, so they may already have the capability already).
Simply put the BIOS update file onto a FAT32 formatted flash drive, restart the system and press the key to bring up the boot menu (on Dell's it is F12), select the option for BIOS firmware update, select the BIOS update in the file explorer, and select update. This method takes an operating system out of the equation completely and the only tool you need is a common USB flash drive.
It is not so much an issue with Dell, but an issue with the computer industry in general. On a previous notebook computer I used as my main notebook, a Thinkpad T21, it had a single speaker and at maximum volume it could be heard clearly throughout the house (granted while not a booming sound from true stereo speakers good enough for a notebook computer so I could keep hearing it as I moved about the house) and to this day sounds good with minimal distortion, however with a newer notebook, a Thinkpad T500, its speakers were starting to crackle after barely a year of usage. However the speakers that most computer manufactures are using nowadays are a lot cheaper so they limit the power that goes to them thereby limiting the volume and in some cases that can make watching a movie on the computer impossible without headphones, external speakers, or boosting the volume through EQ adjustments or the volume boost function of VLC.
This issue is not limited to Dell and IBM/Lenovo but is true for many manufactures computers, especially in notebooks without a premium audio option which include beefier speakers and sometimes an additional woofer speaker for better low range. The real fix would be to use a higher quality speaker that can take a little more power (I mean we are only talking about a few watts of power so how hard can it be). Therein lies the problem, with notebook computers being commodity products these days and the majority of buyers looking for the best price, the manufactures skimp on quality. Because of said skimping on quality leads people to use bandaid fixes which in turn exacerbates the issue and leads the already prematurely prone to failure speakers to fail even more prematurely.
That was in the "The '37's" episode of the 2nd season of Voyager if I am not mistaken. What they found was evidence of rust in space (which by ST logic should not exist) and when they tracked it down they came across an old 1930's Ford pickup truck floating in space. After they pull the truck onto the ship they start messing around with it, get it started (though I doubt it wold have started the gas would have long evaporated through the fuel system especially in the vacuum of space, or if it was somehow hermetically sealed inside the gas tank would have gone bad and had terrible varnish issues if it wouldn't have been frozen solid by the cold of space) then turn the radio on and find a signal on the AM band and trace it to a nearby planet and find a 1930's era plane sending out a SOS signal (though with a "modern" power source powering it).
While there are 50 states in the United States, only 48 of them are contiguous. The other two, Alaska and Hawaii, are not contiguous, one being separated by about a third of the Pacific Ocean, and the other with a good chunk of Canada between it and the lower 48.
On the sizes of the various states, all of the US states are larger than at least one country in the world. The largest state, Alaska, is larger than all but 18 sovereign countries. The smallest state, Rhode Island, is larger than a couple dozen countries or so.
As for the one you specifically mentioned, the United Kingdom, it is almost twice the size of Louisiana but about half way between Minnesota and Michigan in size.
I do not know where you got your size comparison of the EU to NYC from, as NYC is smaller than the state of Rhode Island.
Exactly, Moore's Law isn't a law, it is a marketing plan. I don't see why so many people get so serious about it. A real law (of science) would be something like the law of gravity where it has a near universal application, whereas Moore's Law is a "law" that describes Intel's marketing plan.
You forgot to put this on your list: Videos skip and pause when fully buffered . I am not sure what is the actual cause for it is but something causes it, even on a 2.8GHz Core2Duo w/ 8GB of memory with Win 7 64bit I get that a lot especially with youtube sometimes with others.
OK missed mentioned coincidence by name but did allege it.
Well in the case of the article had nothing to do with the DVD sales/rentals, digi sales and whatnot, but box office sales. That part of my comments were simply saying that basing popularity of a movie based on revenues which naturally get inflated over past years due to rising ticket prices (and not to mention a range of ticket prices in theaters which further distorts the numbers) rather than based on a value which is more set it absolute numbers like the number of tickets sold, should be evaluated.
Just because there is alleged correlation between the two events doesn't mean the lower box office revenues were caused by the shutdown. Perhaps it is due to lackluster movies this year, perhaps it was due to the ever dwindling economy so those who would have normally gone to a movie couldn't justify spending an ever increasing amount on tickets (and concessions if the choose to get those), or perhaps it was just more people going to see "matinee" showings which are often a lot less expensive which drives down revenues but perhaps increases ticket sales. Heck one local theater to me has matinee showings that are $3 and most other showings are less than $5 before 6PM.
Perhaps instead of counting revenues they should count actual ticket sales. Like when they say a movie has broken a box office revenue record, is it because more people are actually seeing the movie or is it because ticket prices are at record highs?
The nice thing about TV shows is the fact that broadcasters often repeat them often and are available in other formats such as DVD's or online streaming services, so even if you were to cancel your service to Boxee the information isn't gone, just might be a slight time inconvenience if one wanted to watch it. Or one could just use a TV provider provided DVR box which records the digital stream directly to the box instead of to the "cloud", it just isn't "unlimited" .
However from personal experience a 500GB DVR box is more than enough (at least for SD programming). Also now being offered by TV providers is boxes with a lot more that 500GB are being offered now and can in some cases record up to 5 programs at once.
I've been running the 64 bit of version Windows 7 for a year and a half now (when I got my Thinkpad T500 before that I had no 64bit capable machines), and I have had no issues running 32 bit applications on it. 16 bit applications however, or 32 bit applications with 16 bit installers or 16 bit legacy code in them yes there is an issue there as the 64 bit versions of Windows have the NTVDM removed from it, but also workarounds. For older DOS applications/games there is always DOSBox and with Windows 7 Pro, Enterprise, and Ultimate versions one can use the XP Mode virtual machine, which I find works quite well and even offers an integrations mode so it is mostly seamless between the real machine and the virtual machine.
I did quantify in my initial comment "if it doesn't cost them anything" so as long as it is not totally free and they are paying something (to see a basic clinic and what not). One thing I do think there should be is not health insurance they way it is traditionally thought of, but a Catastrophic insurance which would cover things like non-lifestyle related issues (lung cancer for smokers, cirrhosis of the liver for excessive drinkers, various issues that come from extremely poor living including extreme obesity (unless there is some other issue that goes with it like thyroid issues which makes weight control difficult), etc just to name a few). By having that catastrophic insurance it should lead people to live better lifestyles since while they are covered for things outside their direct control, they know that by having to pay for their own health upkeep (even if subsidized) they will live in a more healthy way. Personally speaking if it wasn't for the unknown potential issues that would cost me tons of money I wouldn't have health insurance myself, but I would rather play it safe in case I need to go in for an appendectomy or something that is outside of my control.
We tried that before. If i recall last time we tried to outlaw alcohol it backfired and gave to the rise of 1920's gangsters, bootlegging, and everything that came with it. Outlawing products do not work, because people will find a way to get them, much in the same way as today's war on drugs, if anything it has lead to an increase of drug usage.
Personally speaking this article is a perfect example why people shouldn't get "free" or rather publicly paid health care as it leads people to live in a manner which is inconsistent with healthy living as there is no cost benefit to them otherwise. If people have to pay for what they are getting they are more inclined to live in a manner which fits what they can afford. As in what incentive do people have to live healthily if it doesn't cost them anything to live the opposite.
You sir have discovered capitalism at work! Why do people demonize businesses who seek out the best and brightest and PAY them for their knowledge and skill. Perhaps because they didn't get those well paying jobs themselves.
Just because it has been detected now doesn't mean it hasn't been around for hundreds, thousands, millions, or even billions of years already. So too early to say that these holes are anything to worry about. After all, the sun does coronal mass ejections quite often, some of which are aimed towards us, which while major events generally uneventful, maybe with some satellites knocked out.
Hmm potentially illegal in most jurisdictions falling under the same category as TV's that are viewable from the drivers seat while in motion. Plus it blocks part of the steering wheel which means you have to use an altered hand placement on the steering wheel(as opposed to 10 and 2 or 9 and 3). Also addressing the saving your life issue, is what happens if he does get into an accident which causes air bag deployment? I see either the iPad flying right into your face or if the mount is rigid enough blocking the airbag from deploying and sending your face potentially into the steering wheel and iPad. Plus the first rule of driving, when driving that should be your only task, not talking on a phone, text messaging, or even playing with the radio or heat controls. Save those for a stop light or pull over, or if you really need to use an iPad or cell phone while driving, hire a driver so you can do everything you "need" to do without endangering yours or more importantly others lives while out on the road.
There is an important lesson to be learned here. In the UK they have a near completely socialized health care system which involves rationing of the health care. Some bureaucrat somewhere in London decided it was not a priority to deem such falls as non serious which lead to the death of her. If the current Obamacare plan passes in the US, this will start to happen much more often in the US as people deemed too much of a risk or a "low" chance of survival will be put to a lower priority. I know the US Congress members that are pro Obamacare and Obama himself say this will not happen, but it is what we have to look forward to if and when Obamacare becomes law.
And to think that it seems all the rage is to be upgrading Atari's with an Svideo board as featured on hack-a-day a few weeks ago http://hackaday.com/2009/04/05/s-video-from-an-atari-2600/ . Honestly I don't know why people want to make their TV's look like a 30 year old TV display. The reason for all that bleeding was the circuitry that converted the video and audio signal to RF and then the deconverting of that signal in the TV. It is beyond me why anybody would want to make something look like it did, instead of how it should look. I grew up playing the Atari 2600 and I thought it was fun, but I certainly am not fond of how it looked. I'm just waiting for my SVideo converter board to arrive so I can upgrade my 2600 to look how it should, not how it did. (And I'm still using a CRT TV as well none of these new fangled LCD TV's). - XSS
You may want to use other sources for maps instead of Google, perhaps Mapquest, http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?formtype=addr ess&address=1+Observatory+Cir+NW&city=washington&s tate=dc&zipcode=20008 a much better shot of Cheney's residence(just click the link to view the aeriel view instead of the map). However those big squares they got all over the place on Google do look quite menacing. I have found, however, that its a tossup between Google Earth and Mapquest for what you can and can not view as I found before with Area 51 and a few other choice locations around the US and world.
Though I know its not heavily reported but the Thinkpad R40 line has an issue of where it will stop seeing any UltraBay drives, and the Thinkpad A31 will stop seeing the sound and modem devices both of which require the replacement of the system board as its an issue with the southbridge chip. Also the T40/R50 series of laptops with ATI video chips has an issue where the video chip will come loose causing intermittent video(pressing down on the video chip will make it work for a lil while). That happened to my personal T42 which I sent to a company called MicroMedics in IL and they were able to fix it somehow without needing to replace the board(verified by same serial number and NIC MAC address), and haven't had an issue with it since(and I known I just haven't had that problem as I've seen people saying there T40/R50's are doing the same thing). I wouldn't call the video issue a Thinkpad issue as I have heard of it happening on HP/Compaq's, Toshiba's, Sony's, and Clevo based laptops(Sager/Prostar/Alienware and others) along with desktop video cards with both ATI and NVidia chips so I would guess there is some issue with the BGA mounting technique or the solder used for it perhaps just doesn't take too well to heat stress. I've even read on a couple different forums tha the T23's have an issue with coils falling off of the system board and causing the system to not turn on. So I guess while IBM/Lenovo Thinkpads are generally more reliable they still have their own share of issues, just not widely reported or known about.
Yes any number divided by itself is 1, but you forgot another rule 0 divided into any number is 0 so 0/2=0 0/42=0 and whatnot. So 0/0 would have 2 possible answers if it followed both rules 0/0=1 and 0/0=0. However going back to my HS Algebra classes there was a solution to this called 'i' for imaginary numbers, so 2/0=i and 42/0=i. Then i could be used as a number in equations just with any answer having the 'i' at the end of it. 'i' can also be negative. See http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.imag.num.html for a bit more information on it.
Actually Hitachi bought IBM's hard drive business. At the service center I work at (NOT BB/GEEKSQUAD) Hitachi drives are commonly known as Hitrashi and Fujitsu HD's is Fushi*su and Toshiba HD's well just add a 't' in the appropriate place. Just got stacks and stacks of them around. Just seems that modern laptop drives are just not built to the same caliber as desktop drives are, heck I even see drives in MFG warranty failing left and right. For the record Samsung and Seagate drives seem pretty bad as well, WD's laptop drives haven't seen to many of them go bad yet as they are newer but they are starting to pop up. Oh well I guess it keeps the HD mfg's in business and repair depots like the one I work at in business as well, and I'm not complaining:).
The Windows registry is mostly the reason why most stuff needs to be run with admin priviledges. Why does all the config stuff for programs need to be in the registry? Whatever happened to the good ol' config files, which is one thing that Linux and other unixes are good for since a user can install a program and have the config file stored in their home directory. Sure I can see how using the registry makes it convient and somewhat standardized but that really where most of Windows issues come from. - PC
Picard was never captured and tortured by Romulans. In the episode when Picard, Crusher, and Worf infiltrated a suspected Cardassian research base Picard did get captured and subsequently tortured by a Cardassian and asked how many lights there were however.
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Not only does Google want more stuff to go through them they are complicit if not one of the prime agitators of this phenomenon.
For example to get directions to go from the White House to the US Capitol you get this URL (used the quotes so can see the whole URL w/o having to scroll over): "https://www.google.com/maps/dir/The+White+House,+1600+Pennsylvania+Ave+NW,+Washington,+DC+20500/US+Congress+-+Sergeant+at+Arms,+1+S+Capitol+St+SW,+Washington,+DC+20515/@38.8950631,-77.0311265,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m13!4m12!1m5!1m1!1s0x89b7b7bcdecbb1df:0x715969d86d0b76bf!2m2!1d-77.0365298!2d38.8976763!1m5!1m1!1s0x89b7b7b057914a6b:0x617d58ed260bc5e2!2m2!1d-77.0090646!2d38.8899056"
All of the characters after the +20515 is completely unneeded for the above link to work. "https://www.google.com/maps/dir/The+White+House,+1600+Pennsylvania+Ave+NW,+Washington,+DC+20500/US+Congress+-+Sergeant+at+Arms,+1+S+Capitol+St+SW,+Washington,+DC+20515" is all that is needed for the link to work, and can even whittle that down more by another 49 characters to "https://www.google.com/maps/dir/1600+Pennsylvania+Ave+NW,+Washington,+DC+20500/1+S+Capitol+St+SW,+Washington,+DC+20515" and it would still work. Perhaps they should start leading by example and fix what they helped create instead of worrying about what to replace it with.
Dell has a solution to this that Lenovo should be able to implement: The ability to install BIOS updates from a flash drive straight from the boot options menu. No hacks or "firmware services" needed. Actually I am surprised that they don't (but I don't have much experience with modern Thinkpads, so they may already have the capability already).
Simply put the BIOS update file onto a FAT32 formatted flash drive, restart the system and press the key to bring up the boot menu (on Dell's it is F12), select the option for BIOS firmware update, select the BIOS update in the file explorer, and select update. This method takes an operating system out of the equation completely and the only tool you need is a common USB flash drive.
It is not so much an issue with Dell, but an issue with the computer industry in general. On a previous notebook computer I used as my main notebook, a Thinkpad T21, it had a single speaker and at maximum volume it could be heard clearly throughout the house (granted while not a booming sound from true stereo speakers good enough for a notebook computer so I could keep hearing it as I moved about the house) and to this day sounds good with minimal distortion, however with a newer notebook, a Thinkpad T500, its speakers were starting to crackle after barely a year of usage. However the speakers that most computer manufactures are using nowadays are a lot cheaper so they limit the power that goes to them thereby limiting the volume and in some cases that can make watching a movie on the computer impossible without headphones, external speakers, or boosting the volume through EQ adjustments or the volume boost function of VLC.
This issue is not limited to Dell and IBM/Lenovo but is true for many manufactures computers, especially in notebooks without a premium audio option which include beefier speakers and sometimes an additional woofer speaker for better low range. The real fix would be to use a higher quality speaker that can take a little more power (I mean we are only talking about a few watts of power so how hard can it be). Therein lies the problem, with notebook computers being commodity products these days and the majority of buyers looking for the best price, the manufactures skimp on quality. Because of said skimping on quality leads people to use bandaid fixes which in turn exacerbates the issue and leads the already prematurely prone to failure speakers to fail even more prematurely.
That was in the "The '37's" episode of the 2nd season of Voyager if I am not mistaken. What they found was evidence of rust in space (which by ST logic should not exist) and when they tracked it down they came across an old 1930's Ford pickup truck floating in space. After they pull the truck onto the ship they start messing around with it, get it started (though I doubt it wold have started the gas would have long evaporated through the fuel system especially in the vacuum of space, or if it was somehow hermetically sealed inside the gas tank would have gone bad and had terrible varnish issues if it wouldn't have been frozen solid by the cold of space) then turn the radio on and find a signal on the AM band and trace it to a nearby planet and find a 1930's era plane sending out a SOS signal (though with a "modern" power source powering it).
While there are 50 states in the United States, only 48 of them are contiguous. The other two, Alaska and Hawaii, are not contiguous, one being separated by about a third of the Pacific Ocean, and the other with a good chunk of Canada between it and the lower 48.
On the sizes of the various states, all of the US states are larger than at least one country in the world. The largest state, Alaska, is larger than all but 18 sovereign countries. The smallest state, Rhode Island, is larger than a couple dozen countries or so.
As for the one you specifically mentioned, the United Kingdom, it is almost twice the size of Louisiana but about half way between Minnesota and Michigan in size.
I do not know where you got your size comparison of the EU to NYC from, as NYC is smaller than the state of Rhode Island.
Exactly, Moore's Law isn't a law, it is a marketing plan. I don't see why so many people get so serious about it. A real law (of science) would be something like the law of gravity where it has a near universal application, whereas Moore's Law is a "law" that describes Intel's marketing plan.
You forgot to put this on your list: Videos skip and pause when fully buffered . I am not sure what is the actual cause for it is but something causes it, even on a 2.8GHz Core2Duo w/ 8GB of memory with Win 7 64bit I get that a lot especially with youtube sometimes with others.
OK missed mentioned coincidence by name but did allege it.
Well in the case of the article had nothing to do with the DVD sales/rentals, digi sales and whatnot, but box office sales. That part of my comments were simply saying that basing popularity of a movie based on revenues which naturally get inflated over past years due to rising ticket prices (and not to mention a range of ticket prices in theaters which further distorts the numbers) rather than based on a value which is more set it absolute numbers like the number of tickets sold, should be evaluated.
Just because there is alleged correlation between the two events doesn't mean the lower box office revenues were caused by the shutdown. Perhaps it is due to lackluster movies this year, perhaps it was due to the ever dwindling economy so those who would have normally gone to a movie couldn't justify spending an ever increasing amount on tickets (and concessions if the choose to get those), or perhaps it was just more people going to see "matinee" showings which are often a lot less expensive which drives down revenues but perhaps increases ticket sales. Heck one local theater to me has matinee showings that are $3 and most other showings are less than $5 before 6PM.
Perhaps instead of counting revenues they should count actual ticket sales. Like when they say a movie has broken a box office revenue record, is it because more people are actually seeing the movie or is it because ticket prices are at record highs?
The nice thing about TV shows is the fact that broadcasters often repeat them often and are available in other formats such as DVD's or online streaming services, so even if you were to cancel your service to Boxee the information isn't gone, just might be a slight time inconvenience if one wanted to watch it. Or one could just use a TV provider provided DVR box which records the digital stream directly to the box instead of to the "cloud", it just isn't "unlimited" .
However from personal experience a 500GB DVR box is more than enough (at least for SD programming). Also now being offered by TV providers is boxes with a lot more that 500GB are being offered now and can in some cases record up to 5 programs at once.
I've been running the 64 bit of version Windows 7 for a year and a half now (when I got my Thinkpad T500 before that I had no 64bit capable machines), and I have had no issues running 32 bit applications on it. 16 bit applications however, or 32 bit applications with 16 bit installers or 16 bit legacy code in them yes there is an issue there as the 64 bit versions of Windows have the NTVDM removed from it, but also workarounds. For older DOS applications/games there is always DOSBox and with Windows 7 Pro, Enterprise, and Ultimate versions one can use the XP Mode virtual machine, which I find works quite well and even offers an integrations mode so it is mostly seamless between the real machine and the virtual machine.
I did quantify in my initial comment "if it doesn't cost them anything" so as long as it is not totally free and they are paying something (to see a basic clinic and what not). One thing I do think there should be is not health insurance they way it is traditionally thought of, but a Catastrophic insurance which would cover things like non-lifestyle related issues (lung cancer for smokers, cirrhosis of the liver for excessive drinkers, various issues that come from extremely poor living including extreme obesity (unless there is some other issue that goes with it like thyroid issues which makes weight control difficult), etc just to name a few). By having that catastrophic insurance it should lead people to live better lifestyles since while they are covered for things outside their direct control, they know that by having to pay for their own health upkeep (even if subsidized) they will live in a more healthy way. Personally speaking if it wasn't for the unknown potential issues that would cost me tons of money I wouldn't have health insurance myself, but I would rather play it safe in case I need to go in for an appendectomy or something that is outside of my control.
We tried that before. If i recall last time we tried to outlaw alcohol it backfired and gave to the rise of 1920's gangsters, bootlegging, and everything that came with it. Outlawing products do not work, because people will find a way to get them, much in the same way as today's war on drugs, if anything it has lead to an increase of drug usage.
Personally speaking this article is a perfect example why people shouldn't get "free" or rather publicly paid health care as it leads people to live in a manner which is inconsistent with healthy living as there is no cost benefit to them otherwise. If people have to pay for what they are getting they are more inclined to live in a manner which fits what they can afford. As in what incentive do people have to live healthily if it doesn't cost them anything to live the opposite.
You sir have discovered capitalism at work! Why do people demonize businesses who seek out the best and brightest and PAY them for their knowledge and skill. Perhaps because they didn't get those well paying jobs themselves.
Just because it has been detected now doesn't mean it hasn't been around for hundreds, thousands, millions, or even billions of years already. So too early to say that these holes are anything to worry about. After all, the sun does coronal mass ejections quite often, some of which are aimed towards us, which while major events generally uneventful, maybe with some satellites knocked out.
Hmm potentially illegal in most jurisdictions falling under the same category as TV's that are viewable from the drivers seat while in motion. Plus it blocks part of the steering wheel which means you have to use an altered hand placement on the steering wheel(as opposed to 10 and 2 or 9 and 3). Also addressing the saving your life issue, is what happens if he does get into an accident which causes air bag deployment? I see either the iPad flying right into your face or if the mount is rigid enough blocking the airbag from deploying and sending your face potentially into the steering wheel and iPad. Plus the first rule of driving, when driving that should be your only task, not talking on a phone, text messaging, or even playing with the radio or heat controls. Save those for a stop light or pull over, or if you really need to use an iPad or cell phone while driving, hire a driver so you can do everything you "need" to do without endangering yours or more importantly others lives while out on the road.
There is an important lesson to be learned here. In the UK they have a near completely socialized health care system which involves rationing of the health care. Some bureaucrat somewhere in London decided it was not a priority to deem such falls as non serious which lead to the death of her. If the current Obamacare plan passes in the US, this will start to happen much more often in the US as people deemed too much of a risk or a "low" chance of survival will be put to a lower priority. I know the US Congress members that are pro Obamacare and Obama himself say this will not happen, but it is what we have to look forward to if and when Obamacare becomes law.
And to think that it seems all the rage is to be upgrading Atari's with an Svideo board as featured on hack-a-day a few weeks ago http://hackaday.com/2009/04/05/s-video-from-an-atari-2600/ . Honestly I don't know why people want to make their TV's look like a 30 year old TV display. The reason for all that bleeding was the circuitry that converted the video and audio signal to RF and then the deconverting of that signal in the TV. It is beyond me why anybody would want to make something look like it did, instead of how it should look. I grew up playing the Atari 2600 and I thought it was fun, but I certainly am not fond of how it looked. I'm just waiting for my SVideo converter board to arrive so I can upgrade my 2600 to look how it should, not how it did. (And I'm still using a CRT TV as well none of these new fangled LCD TV's). - XSS
You may want to use other sources for maps instead of Google, perhaps Mapquest, http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?formtype=addr ess&address=1+Observatory+Cir+NW&city=washington&s tate=dc&zipcode=20008
a much better shot of Cheney's residence(just click the link to view the aeriel view instead of the map). However those big squares they got all over the place on Google do look quite menacing. I have found, however, that its a tossup between Google Earth and Mapquest for what you can and can not view as I found before with Area 51 and a few other choice locations around the US and world.
Taking a look at another nuclear power plant, the one in Byron, IL its nice and unblured according to Google http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=byron,+il& ie=UTF8&z=16&ll=42.073969,-89.280159&spn=0.012153, 0.029526&t=h&om=1&iwloc=addr so I dunno whats with the guys out in Taxachusetts, err rather Massachusetts but Illinois seems just fine with having their power plants on display throughout the whole world. Heck even this little patch of desert is nice and unblurred http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=area+51&ie =UTF8&z=14&ll=37.228688,-115.804482&spn=0.052144,0 .118103&t=h&om=1 so bugger all I dunno. Both are from Google and both are nicely unblurred. - XSS
Though I know its not heavily reported but the Thinkpad R40 line has an issue of where it will stop seeing any UltraBay drives, and the Thinkpad A31 will stop seeing the sound and modem devices both of which require the replacement of the system board as its an issue with the southbridge chip. Also the T40/R50 series of laptops with ATI video chips has an issue where the video chip will come loose causing intermittent video(pressing down on the video chip will make it work for a lil while). That happened to my personal T42 which I sent to a company called MicroMedics in IL and they were able to fix it somehow without needing to replace the board(verified by same serial number and NIC MAC address), and haven't had an issue with it since(and I known I just haven't had that problem as I've seen people saying there T40/R50's are doing the same thing). I wouldn't call the video issue a Thinkpad issue as I have heard of it happening on HP/Compaq's, Toshiba's, Sony's, and Clevo based laptops(Sager/Prostar/Alienware and others) along with desktop video cards with both ATI and NVidia chips so I would guess there is some issue with the BGA mounting technique or the solder used for it perhaps just doesn't take too well to heat stress. I've even read on a couple different forums tha the T23's have an issue with coils falling off of the system board and causing the system to not turn on. So I guess while IBM/Lenovo Thinkpads are generally more reliable they still have their own share of issues, just not widely reported or known about.
Yes any number divided by itself is 1, but you forgot another rule 0 divided into any number is 0 so 0/2=0 0/42=0 and whatnot. So 0/0 would have 2 possible answers if it followed both rules 0/0=1 and 0/0=0. However going back to my HS Algebra classes there was a solution to this called 'i' for imaginary numbers, so 2/0=i and 42/0=i. Then i could be used as a number in equations just with any answer having the 'i' at the end of it. 'i' can also be negative. See http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.imag.num.html for a bit more information on it.
Actually Hitachi bought IBM's hard drive business. At the service center I work at (NOT BB/GEEKSQUAD) Hitachi drives are commonly known as Hitrashi and Fujitsu HD's is Fushi*su and Toshiba HD's well just add a 't' in the appropriate place. Just got stacks and stacks of them around. Just seems that modern laptop drives are just not built to the same caliber as desktop drives are, heck I even see drives in MFG warranty failing left and right. For the record Samsung and Seagate drives seem pretty bad as well, WD's laptop drives haven't seen to many of them go bad yet as they are newer but they are starting to pop up. Oh well I guess it keeps the HD mfg's in business and repair depots like the one I work at in business as well, and I'm not complaining :).
The Windows registry is mostly the reason why most stuff needs to be run with admin priviledges. Why does all the config stuff for programs need to be in the registry? Whatever happened to the good ol' config files, which is one thing that Linux and other unixes are good for since a user can install a program and have the config file stored in their home directory. Sure I can see how using the registry makes it convient and somewhat standardized but that really where most of Windows issues come from. - PC
Picard was never captured and tortured by Romulans. In the episode when Picard, Crusher, and Worf infiltrated a suspected Cardassian research base Picard did get captured and subsequently tortured by a Cardassian and asked how many lights there were however.