Because to build a space based telescope costs a lot more money than a ground based one. Not to mention launch and maintenance costs associated with something like hubble.
Hopefully a relative wouldn't do that for children if the parents are against it. As for friends, well the age gap usually isn't that large, so you might find a 17 year old with an R Rated (18 or older) game, but you won't find a lot of 18 year olds hanging out with 12 year olds (at least I hope not).
That's not to say this is foolproof. Look at underage smoking and drinking, its definitely there, but requiring photo id does reduce the access to products that they shouldn't have.
See I'm thinking, once we can get to the point where you can output text, I want to hook this up to some weird people while they're sleeping and leave a text editor open. We'll start the next bash.org - dreamquotes.org
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You sound like me. The left speaker in my headphones was cutting in and out. Simple I thought, pull it apart, re-solder, put together and no need to buy new headphones. Well, I did get the left side working, and the right side kept working, but now my mic doesn't work. Soldering four wires took me almost 30 mins.
My guess, it hasn't. It probably started becoming obvious in the first year. It probably took 2-6 years to ADMIT the problem. That being said, I don't mind Dell's laptops all that much. My last employer used them (and I supported them) and for the most part were fairly reliable and robust.
Huh? Advertising a program that is supposed to protect/remove spyware but acts as spyware or a trojan does not at all compare to being pulled over by a cop.
This guy is guilty of fraud.
Simple, relist them on ebay individually or in small bundles (say an NES system, a few games, a few accessories). I bet you could double your money easily in a week or two.
To me this is simple short sightedness. I'd love to have been a fly on the wall when this was decided. If a 15 year old can't play it, then no one can? Unless the group who made the decision were all 15, I just can't fathom the logic behind this.
Honestly? Because I can read a book in the john. I have an old Unix Power Tools book in the basement bathroom, and I'm still learning new command line tricks. I have to admit though, I've skipped the chapter on Emacs.
Not only that, but for new people, magic_quote_gpc = On
For those not familiar with php, this will escape single quotes in GET/POST/COOKIE data. Helps protect the unfamiliar from things like SQL injection attacks. Once you know what you are doing they can be a bit of a pain in the ass, but for new people, it can help make your code a bit safer.
"Policing the Internet" I agree is not the most desireable of things. However, there are certain things which regardless of their location, should be punished. Child porn, spam, spyware, I'm tempted to ad pop-ups to that list. I don't want the FBI or whoever reading my email, but I understand how email works and that if I want to keep these things private, there are options, such as PGP.
When I was growing up, a lot of kids spent all day watching TV. They'd come home from school and watch TV. Weekends meant watching TV. Guess what, its not games, its kids. When a young person can find something entertaining to do (homework tends not to be entertaining) they'll stick with it. I'm an avid gamer (at the age of 29) but it is not an addiction. Gaming is more entertaining that any TV show I've ever seen, and at least online gaming involves SOME interaction with other people. Of course the best alternative would be some sort of sport.
From the article: Which brings me to the real question: Can you live without IE? I try to use Firefox as my main browser, but I find myself firing up IE from time to time out of sheer necessity. My Web site uses Google AdSense to display context-sensitive ads to my users. The AdSense administration site works only with IE...
Well, I've been using Adsense for about 2 months now, and I have yet to open it in IE. I've only used Firfox so far, both on Windows and Linux, and never had any problems.
I could be way off here as well, but hey its slashdot right?
Okay, if you combine 2g of mass (1g anti matter, 1g matter) then you get a release of energy which can be calculated:
e=mc^2
e=(0.001Kg * 300,000,000m/s * 300,000,000m/s)=90,000,000,000,000 Joules of energy
So, 2g = 9x10^13J. According to a quick google search, Hiroshima was 8.4x10^13. So, its a little bigger than Hiroshima as far as energy release.
Now, we don't know if the reaction would be immediate and violent, or slow and persistant, but there's a LOT of energy stored in matter.
True, but when you're looking at weapons research, its not as important that you get more energy in release. The goal of a weapon is not to produce energy but to hamper your enemy (kill/disable troops, infrastructure, communications, etc)
As someone who keeps a Windows 2000 box around 95% for gaming, its nice to see however, that things have come a long way since I last looked seriously at Linux Gaming. Of course the game I play most (Half Life - well, its mods anyways) has no native support, and it doesn't look like HL2 will either. However, games like UT2004 and Doom 3 are among games that I truly enjoy playing and do have native Linux binaries. Seeing this article that says installing drivers for my Nvidia card are now simple (at least in Suse, I usually run Fedora) makes me think about going dual boot on my gaming machine just to start trying a conversion to Linux gaming.
We have PIPEDA that says that my home phone number, name, etc. is protected information. Thus calling me at home in this type of situation can be considered a violation of this act. I'm currently in discussions with a car dealership and a bank over violations of both my privacy and my wife's. (We applied for a car loan and got a call from a mortgage specialist - who had our credit history - offering to help transfer our mortgage).
I know the Canadian daVinci project still intends to launch, even if the prize has already been won. I had planned to attend the Oct 2nd launch since its only a few hours drive from my home, and will try to attend the day they do launch.
Considering its static HTML (the main page) there's no reason an older machine can not stand up to a slashdotting. When we/. something is usually for one or two reasons, the most common being the pipe is full. The other reason is overloading the server (when we see things like too many mysql connections) . Rarely does the server itself actually die. I've had a PII 600 with about 256MB server several thousand hits per hour and never see the load average climb above.5, and this is php/mysql generated pages.
Of course the product they do release uses twice as much memory as anything else, doesn't work as expected, introduces rand(1,20) new security holes, and includes 10x the features of competing products but only half the functionality.
The concern isn't his credit card number, its that someone will use his SSN, driver's license, etc. to apply for a NEW credit card, or some other fraud. Keep an eye on your credit record is the best bet. If anything suspicious comes in you mail, like a note from a new credit card company the warning lights should come on.
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Because to build a space based telescope costs a lot more money than a ground based one. Not to mention launch and maintenance costs associated with something like hubble.
Hopefully a relative wouldn't do that for children if the parents are against it. As for friends, well the age gap usually isn't that large, so you might find a 17 year old with an R Rated (18 or older) game, but you won't find a lot of 18 year olds hanging out with 12 year olds (at least I hope not).
That's not to say this is foolproof. Look at underage smoking and drinking, its definitely there, but requiring photo id does reduce the access to products that they shouldn't have.
See I'm thinking, once we can get to the point where you can output text, I want to hook this up to some weird people while they're sleeping and leave a text editor open. We'll start the next bash.org - dreamquotes.org
I wish Bender had been nominated.
You sound like me. The left speaker in my headphones was cutting in and out. Simple I thought, pull it apart, re-solder, put together and no need to buy new headphones. Well, I did get the left side working, and the right side kept working, but now my mic doesn't work. Soldering four wires took me almost 30 mins.
My guess, it hasn't. It probably started becoming obvious in the first year. It probably took 2-6 years to ADMIT the problem. That being said, I don't mind Dell's laptops all that much. My last employer used them (and I supported them) and for the most part were fairly reliable and robust.
Huh? Advertising a program that is supposed to protect/remove spyware but acts as spyware or a trojan does not at all compare to being pulled over by a cop.
This guy is guilty of fraud.
Simple, relist them on ebay individually or in small bundles (say an NES system, a few games, a few accessories). I bet you could double your money easily in a week or two.
To me this is simple short sightedness. I'd love to have been a fly on the wall when this was decided. If a 15 year old can't play it, then no one can? Unless the group who made the decision were all 15, I just can't fathom the logic behind this.
Honestly? Because I can read a book in the john. I have an old Unix Power Tools book in the basement bathroom, and I'm still learning new command line tricks. I have to admit though, I've skipped the chapter on Emacs.
that should be
magic_quotes_gpc = On
That's quotes, plural. Sorry for any confusion.
Not only that, but for new people,
magic_quote_gpc = On
For those not familiar with php, this will escape single quotes in GET/POST/COOKIE data. Helps protect the unfamiliar from things like SQL injection attacks. Once you know what you are doing they can be a bit of a pain in the ass, but for new people, it can help make your code a bit safer.
I'd rather see Duke Nukem chair the next debate.
"Policing the Internet" I agree is not the most desireable of things. However, there are certain things which regardless of their location, should be punished. Child porn, spam, spyware, I'm tempted to ad pop-ups to that list. I don't want the FBI or whoever reading my email, but I understand how email works and that if I want to keep these things private, there are options, such as PGP.
When I was growing up, a lot of kids spent all day watching TV. They'd come home from school and watch TV. Weekends meant watching TV. Guess what, its not games, its kids. When a young person can find something entertaining to do (homework tends not to be entertaining) they'll stick with it. I'm an avid gamer (at the age of 29) but it is not an addiction. Gaming is more entertaining that any TV show I've ever seen, and at least online gaming involves SOME interaction with other people. Of course the best alternative would be some sort of sport.
At least you'll be awake and in a good mood while you "learn to enjoy" it
From the article:
Which brings me to the real question: Can you live without IE? I try to use Firefox as my main browser, but I find myself firing up IE from time to time out of sheer necessity. My Web site uses Google AdSense to display context-sensitive ads to my users. The AdSense administration site works only with IE...
Well, I've been using Adsense for about 2 months now, and I have yet to open it in IE. I've only used Firfox so far, both on Windows and Linux, and never had any problems.
I could be way off here as well, but hey its slashdot right?
Okay, if you combine 2g of mass (1g anti matter, 1g matter) then you get a release of energy which can be calculated:
e=mc^2
e=(0.001Kg * 300,000,000m/s * 300,000,000m/s)=90,000,000,000,000 Joules of energy
So, 2g = 9x10^13J. According to a quick google search, Hiroshima was 8.4x10^13. So, its a little bigger than Hiroshima as far as energy release.
Now, we don't know if the reaction would be immediate and violent, or slow and persistant, but there's a LOT of energy stored in matter.
True, but when you're looking at weapons research, its not as important that you get more energy in release. The goal of a weapon is not to produce energy but to hamper your enemy (kill/disable troops, infrastructure, communications, etc)
As someone who keeps a Windows 2000 box around 95% for gaming, its nice to see however, that things have come a long way since I last looked seriously at Linux Gaming. Of course the game I play most (Half Life - well, its mods anyways) has no native support, and it doesn't look like HL2 will either. However, games like UT2004 and Doom 3 are among games that I truly enjoy playing and do have native Linux binaries. Seeing this article that says installing drivers for my Nvidia card are now simple (at least in Suse, I usually run Fedora) makes me think about going dual boot on my gaming machine just to start trying a conversion to Linux gaming.
We have PIPEDA that says that my home phone number, name, etc. is protected information. Thus calling me at home in this type of situation can be considered a violation of this act. I'm currently in discussions with a car dealership and a bank over violations of both my privacy and my wife's. (We applied for a car loan and got a call from a mortgage specialist - who had our credit history - offering to help transfer our mortgage).
I know the Canadian daVinci project still intends to launch, even if the prize has already been won. I had planned to attend the Oct 2nd launch since its only a few hours drive from my home, and will try to attend the day they do launch.
Considering its static HTML (the main page) there's no reason an older machine can not stand up to a slashdotting. When we /. something is usually for one or two reasons, the most common being the pipe is full. The other reason is overloading the server (when we see things like too many mysql connections) . Rarely does the server itself actually die. I've had a PII 600 with about 256MB server several thousand hits per hour and never see the load average climb above .5, and this is php/mysql generated pages.
Of course the product they do release uses twice as much memory as anything else, doesn't work as expected, introduces rand(1,20) new security holes, and includes 10x the features of competing products but only half the functionality.
The concern isn't his credit card number, its that someone will use his SSN, driver's license, etc. to apply for a NEW credit card, or some other fraud. Keep an eye on your credit record is the best bet. If anything suspicious comes in you mail, like a note from a new credit card company the warning lights should come on.