I suggest a 2001 or 2002 model Prius. They're cheap because everyone wants the 2004 model.
They're not THAT cheap, even used. A gently used 2001 Prius will still cost you more than a brand-new 2004 Toyota Echo, which is a fully-gasoline engine model based on the same basic frame as the classic Prius
The Echo can get up to 40mpg, making it nearly as efficient as comparable hybrids. If your primary reason for choosing a hybrid is fuel cost, it may be worthwhile to consider some non-hybrid economy cars instead.
bredbandsbolaget delivers 10mbit ethernet to apartment houses, connected to an optical fiber connection. This means that they deliver 10mbit in both directions
Actually, if I remember my Ethernet correctly, that means that the TOTAL bandwidth on the segment between the desktop and the fiber switch is 10mb, regardless of which end the packets originate on. So a desktop used as a client might average 8 down/2 up, and a server might average 1 down/9 up, but the total wouldn't exceed 10.
(Disabled my Karma bonus because I'm not sure of my facts...)
Look: if a police officer has been instructed by his superiors that it's illegal to access the library's WiFi network from outside the library, you're not going to change his mind no matter how good your explanation is. There is less risk of him getting reprimanded for doing what he was told to do and making your stop than there is for independently weighing the arguments from both sides and letting you continue your actions.
Feel free to maintain that you don't believe you're doing anything wrong. Offer to be taken peacefully into custody and spend a few hours in a holding cell if it's really that important to you. But quite frankly, I don't have the time or inclination to sit in jail all day to "prove" that I'm "right".
I'll apologize to the officer and stop what I'm doing, ask him his name, and then take it up with someone higher up the chain of command at a later time.
Indymedia is one of the few remaining grassroots information outlets left on the internet, free from corporate money, sleaziness and lies.
They have their own money, sleaziness and lies -- they don't need corporate support.
Several weeks ago there were reports on Indymedia that police forces in my city were harassing homeless people for assembling peaceably. Yes, language such as "harassment" was used, language which has specific and negative meaning legally and in the pit of one's stomach.
Only problem is, the police were right and the homeless were wrong. They were trying to establish a shantytown on an empty lot, perhaps assuming it was abandoned, but when the owner of the lot was informed what was going on he confirmed that they had no right to be there. They were trespassing.
Consider how you'd feel if a panhandler set up shop on your front porch. Would you ask the police to remove them? Would you want that panhandler recounting the incident on Indymedia and calling you a fascist?
I thought that's what Microsoft considered "version 1.0".
"Beta" means "holy crap, you mean people will actually PAY US for the opportunity to help find our bugs for us, just so they can brag to their friends that they were the first to use our product?"
Yeah, the 15" model they sell at the supermarket. It has a tuner built in. Most low-end and midrange models do, and will for the foreseeable future.
We're already in the second half of 2004; analog tuners will be junk in less than 30 months
Unlikely. Despite any FCC mandates which state we'll be all-digital in 2006, it just flat-out Ain't Gonna Happen. Even with ten years of advance notice, the manufacturers are still far from switching all their production to HDTV -- because there simply isn't any consumer demand for it outside of the home-videophile market.
My only point is that a TV tuner would have cost Apple maybe $40 per unit to integrate into the device and would have been useful for several years at least. But I can't complain really, for one because the G5 iMac is a beautiful machine otherwise, and for two because I have no plans to buy one either way.
Might work great for you, but my state doesn't have "voter registration numbers". Ballots are truly anonymous -- I tell a polling attendant who I am and they find my name on the rolls and mark it off, and then I go into a booth and cast my vote. There's absolutely no correlation between who I am and what my vote is.
For your (admittedly simple and elegant) solution to work, we'd either need a federal voter registration system, or for all of the states to replace their exisitng registration systems with ones such as your state's. Neither of which is going to happen soon, or possibly ever.
If boiling-hot liquid sears the skin off your lap, you have a a pretty demonstrable case of actual damages?
What damages can you prove befell you based on an insecure voting machine, if you haven't even used the machine yet?
It's a drawback of the court system that legal action can typically only be punitive, and not preventative. We KNOW that these machines will violate election law -- but until they're actually used in an election, thus actually violating the law, there's not much we can do.
It's easy to make it look like Kerry and Bush are indistinguishable if you pick out the one issue where their policies are fundamentally similar.
If you look past the issue of "how do we clean up after ourselves in Iraq", though, you'll begin to see two very different pictures -- their plans for the economy, environment, education, everything else are dissimilar ebough that any reasonably educated voter should be able to find a preference.
I don't know much about the Blackberry, but the Sidekick family has much less power than the Treo line. Even the Sidekick II's built-in camera is only VGA resolution, there's no Bluetooth, screen resolution is only 240x160, and almost no third-party software available for it at the moment. The CPU is I believe a 25MHz ARM model, not enough juice to even do MP3 playback. No removable storage unless you count swapping SIM cards.
Where the Sidekick does excel is usability -- I've tried thumbing in some text on a Treo 600, and it was much more difficult to do quickly and accurately than on my Sidekick's larger, rubberized keys.
What does IBM's Power4 chip have anything do with Macs?
Even the G5 PowerPC chips only implement a fraction of the full POWER architecture. I wouldn't expect to see dual-core/single-cache CPUs in Apple Desktops any time soon. Maybe in 8 or 10 years...
Wow, that's the highest tinfoil-hot conspiracy keyword density I've ever seen in a Slashdot post! All that's missing is blaming the Five Jew Bankers and you'd have a Kook Yahtzee.
Every other OS is careful to build in a driver interface that is independent of the OS version.
You really think so? If I have a piece of hardware with Win98 drivers and I can get it to work under Win95, I'd attribute that to serendipity, not design.
And if that same driver works under WinME as well, I'll consider it a miracle.
it's more like the computer confused which inodes belonged to the file...
Yes, this certainly sounds like a problem that occurred at the application layer rather than the OS/filesystem layer. I'm sure that switching to a different word processor will prevent the problem from ever happening again.
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I suggest a 2001 or 2002 model Prius. They're cheap because everyone wants the 2004 model.
They're not THAT cheap, even used. A gently used 2001 Prius will still cost you more than a brand-new 2004 Toyota Echo, which is a fully-gasoline engine model based on the same basic frame as the classic Prius
The Echo can get up to 40mpg, making it nearly as efficient as comparable hybrids. If your primary reason for choosing a hybrid is fuel cost, it may be worthwhile to consider some non-hybrid economy cars instead.
Canada being both geographically larger and far less densely populated then the US, the size argument is blown up right there.
Most of Canada's population lives along the southernmost strip of the country, though.
Do you believe that the town of Alert, at the northernmost reaches of the Nunavut Territory, is as well-wired as Toronto and Vancouver?
bredbandsbolaget delivers 10mbit ethernet to apartment houses, connected to an optical fiber connection. This means that they deliver 10mbit in both directions
Actually, if I remember my Ethernet correctly, that means that the TOTAL bandwidth on the segment between the desktop and the fiber switch is 10mb, regardless of which end the packets originate on. So a desktop used as a client might average 8 down/2 up, and a server might average 1 down/9 up, but the total wouldn't exceed 10.
(Disabled my Karma bonus because I'm not sure of my facts...)
As a matter of fact the population density in USA is 45% greater than Sweden!
Well, the AVERAGE population density is. In New York city, the density might be much higher than Sweden's average... but in Montana, much lower.
When laying fiber, distance generally incurs more cost than density. A mile of cable is a mile of cable, whether it serves 100 people or 10,000,000.
ROT-13 is completely invulnerable to hash collisions; no two non-identical inputs will ever result in identical outputs!
I recommend that everybody replace their existing encryption systems with ROT-13 immediately.
-Cbbg
A local city councilwoman here in my town wanted to make it illegal to criticize the city council or the city it's self.
Such a law would never pass a constitutionality test. So why work yourself into a frenzy into it?
Look: if a police officer has been instructed by his superiors that it's illegal to access the library's WiFi network from outside the library, you're not going to change his mind no matter how good your explanation is. There is less risk of him getting reprimanded for doing what he was told to do and making your stop than there is for independently weighing the arguments from both sides and letting you continue your actions.
Feel free to maintain that you don't believe you're doing anything wrong. Offer to be taken peacefully into custody and spend a few hours in a holding cell if it's really that important to you. But quite frankly, I don't have the time or inclination to sit in jail all day to "prove" that I'm "right".
I'll apologize to the officer and stop what I'm doing, ask him his name, and then take it up with someone higher up the chain of command at a later time.
Indymedia is one of the few remaining grassroots information outlets left on the internet, free from corporate money, sleaziness and lies.
They have their own money, sleaziness and lies -- they don't need corporate support.
Several weeks ago there were reports on Indymedia that police forces in my city were harassing homeless people for assembling peaceably. Yes, language such as "harassment" was used, language which has specific and negative meaning legally and in the pit of one's stomach.
Only problem is, the police were right and the homeless were wrong. They were trying to establish a shantytown on an empty lot, perhaps assuming it was abandoned, but when the owner of the lot was informed what was going on he confirmed that they had no right to be there. They were trespassing.
Consider how you'd feel if a panhandler set up shop on your front porch. Would you ask the police to remove them? Would you want that panhandler recounting the incident on Indymedia and calling you a fascist?
I thought that's what Microsoft considered "version 1.0".
"Beta" means "holy crap, you mean people will actually PAY US for the opportunity to help find our bugs for us, just so they can brag to their friends that they were the first to use our product?"
The graphics-card is lame
Sez you, gamer. I drive two CRT's at 1600x1200x32bit each with my GeForce 5200 on a 9-month-old P4, and it works just fine, thankyou.
Do I use my PC for FPS games? No, I'd rather use the money I saved on video cards to buy a standalone console.
Priced a new TV lately?
Yeah, the 15" model they sell at the supermarket. It has a tuner built in. Most low-end and midrange models do, and will for the foreseeable future.
We're already in the second half of 2004; analog tuners will be junk in less than 30 months
Unlikely. Despite any FCC mandates which state we'll be all-digital in 2006, it just flat-out Ain't Gonna Happen. Even with ten years of advance notice, the manufacturers are still far from switching all their production to HDTV -- because there simply isn't any consumer demand for it outside of the home-videophile market.
My only point is that a TV tuner would have cost Apple maybe $40 per unit to integrate into the device and would have been useful for several years at least. But I can't complain really, for one because the G5 iMac is a beautiful machine otherwise, and for two because I have no plans to buy one either way.
The cognac glass analogy was stupid to begin with. Can we please stop extending/refuting it, thereby making it even stupider?
Might work great for you, but my state doesn't have "voter registration numbers". Ballots are truly anonymous -- I tell a polling attendant who I am and they find my name on the rolls and mark it off, and then I go into a booth and cast my vote. There's absolutely no correlation between who I am and what my vote is.
For your (admittedly simple and elegant) solution to work, we'd either need a federal voter registration system, or for all of the states to replace their exisitng registration systems with ones such as your state's. Neither of which is going to happen soon, or possibly ever.
the polls have both parties monitoring, counting, and watching the process.
How do you watch the insides of an electronic machine in action? Attach a voltmeter to the traces on the I/O chip?
why hasn't someone taken Diebold on in court?
If boiling-hot liquid sears the skin off your lap, you have a a pretty demonstrable case of actual damages?
What damages can you prove befell you based on an insecure voting machine, if you haven't even used the machine yet?
It's a drawback of the court system that legal action can typically only be punitive, and not preventative. We KNOW that these machines will violate election law -- but until they're actually used in an election, thus actually violating the law, there's not much we can do.
It's easy to make it look like Kerry and Bush are indistinguishable if you pick out the one issue where their policies are fundamentally similar.
If you look past the issue of "how do we clean up after ourselves in Iraq", though, you'll begin to see two very different pictures -- their plans for the economy, environment, education, everything else are dissimilar ebough that any reasonably educated voter should be able to find a preference.
CallerID never was, never has been, and never will be a way of positively identifying who's calling.
Then why is it called "CallerID"?
The birth of the Internet should count when the first porn picture was published.
Okay, come back tomorrow and we'll celebrate THAT 35th anniversary.
I don't know much about the Blackberry, but the Sidekick family has much less power than the Treo line. Even the Sidekick II's built-in camera is only VGA resolution, there's no Bluetooth, screen resolution is only 240x160, and almost no third-party software available for it at the moment. The CPU is I believe a 25MHz ARM model, not enough juice to even do MP3 playback. No removable storage unless you count swapping SIM cards.
Where the Sidekick does excel is usability -- I've tried thumbing in some text on a Treo 600, and it was much more difficult to do quickly and accurately than on my Sidekick's larger, rubberized keys.
the fact that they didn't have a woman as president before does not a gender biased institution make
Actually it does, by the definition of "bias".
Perhaps you're thinking of "gender prejudiced" instead?
Oddly enough, the full-page ad in the Village Voice for "The Brown Bunny" this week gives the rating as 'X' rather than 'NC-17'.
I guess even the marketing group for the movie knows the film has nothing going for it other than its explicit fellatio scene...
What does IBM's Power4 chip have anything do with Macs?
Even the G5 PowerPC chips only implement a fraction of the full POWER architecture. I wouldn't expect to see dual-core/single-cache CPUs in Apple Desktops any time soon. Maybe in 8 or 10 years...
Wow, that's the highest tinfoil-hot conspiracy keyword density I've ever seen in a Slashdot post! All that's missing is blaming the Five Jew Bankers and you'd have a Kook Yahtzee.
Every other OS is careful to build in a driver interface that is independent of the OS version.
You really think so? If I have a piece of hardware with Win98 drivers and I can get it to work under Win95, I'd attribute that to serendipity, not design.
And if that same driver works under WinME as well, I'll consider it a miracle.
it's more like the computer confused which inodes belonged to the file...
Yes, this certainly sounds like a problem that occurred at the application layer rather than the OS/filesystem layer. I'm sure that switching to a different word processor will prevent the problem from ever happening again.