I run a lot of tabs in Firefox, but never pegged unless several of them are running Flash animations at the same time, which is one reason why I like FlashBlock.
The Palm-based PDAs I have used were pretty good. The only problem I had with my current unit, a Tapwave Zodiac, was a bad sync/charging cable. I think it multitasks, at least it allows playing music while doing other things. I've never had the need to run SSH or web browsing on such a tiny device.
Actually, since the Bush White House won't tell anyone what they are doing and will not allow any checks and balances or any sort of oversight as to what they are doing, I am personally scared of potential (though not necessarily certain) consequences. The part that they won't say what they are doing, or say what information they are gathering or any oversight. Bush has even claimed to be working within the rules of FISA at the very time he was routinely bypassing it.
With the Wilson case, they've already shown that they are willing to do for revenge, and they are also off-handedly showing how much they really do respect the institution of marriage their party claims to have, and they apparently have even hurt current intelligence becase Valerie Wilson was supposedly doing intelligence work on Iran's nuclear program when she was "outed".
The secret CIA torture prisons were only made known by leaks. Bush claims to be above the Geneva convention. Then there are the no-bid contracts, lying about noone forseeing levies failing (a video proved he did know the possibility), lying about intelligence of Iraq's supposed nuclear program, proclaiming the uncertain or disputed intelligence as certain intelligence and so on. I'm not sure if this administration is more retarted than malicious, or more malicious than retarted.
Fusion isn't necessarily clean, though probably a lot cleaner than anything else. It needs a lot of radiation shielding and greatly complicates dismantling because those shielding elements and everything in side the shield is fairly radioactive.
Word and Office are relatively expensive and a lot of people don't have those programs for that reason, and I don't think this is incentive to buy them. The largest share of users of Office and Word appear to be businesses, government and education, and I don't think their users are served well by this feature.
There are already a lot of programs that allow you to edit locally and update to LiveJournal, WordPress and many other services and common softare. I just don't see the point in a feature like this other than to get attention from sites like this.
The barrier for entry is almost non existant. Make a game, distribute on the web
The barrier is making the game. Making comics, blogging or producing a series of very short videos is a lot easier than making a game.
I do think getting a good game deal is getting noticed and having a compelling project idea. Getting noticed might come in the form of collaborating on an open source or shareware game.
True, corn-based enthanol is simply stupid. There are other forms of plants that will work well in the US, like switchgrass, with about 4.5 times the energy ouput vs. the energy input. If this proof of concept is true, then algae could be even better, though the combustion cycle and fuel delivery system in the car would be different.
In 2004, GE spent about $33 million on Section 404 compliance, and costs ran about the same in 2005, Ameen said. According to a quick perusal of GE's 2004 10-K, they had $20 billion in pre-tax income. I don't think $33 million is remotely too much to insure that that 10-K is correct.
That turns out to be 0.16% of the total income. Not bad, though expenses generally tend to add up, I don't know what compliance to other regulations cost. I imagine GE can forgo a the operation of couple of their executive jets.
Thank you for that link, I bookmarked it. The last time I related that story, someone responded saying that the Chinese government would never do something like that, and I didn't have a link handy.
a possible (or even certain) problem in the future is better thqan that same problem now. by the time DDT loses effectiveness we might have better treatment for malaria or better cheap insecticides.
That takes research that isn't being done and especially money that isn't being spent. I heard a program on Science Friday that said that many strains of malaria are almost totally resistant against current drugs, in part because they are being misused. I think the comment was that there were many more drugs being developed for erectile dysfunction than there are for malaria and similar diseases that are killing countless people.
At any rate, it is a little irresponsible to blindly continue doing something now in the hopes that there is a fix for the problems that action creates. This is a very difficult issue because there are potential consequences on both sides that must be carefully weighed.
I may be wrong, but it appears that benchmark was deliberately chosen out of a bias. The UT04 benchmark seems to run better on AMDs. When making comparisons of dissimilar architectures, no single test, nor any single type of test is suitable. While the AMD is faster at most of the other tests, most of them don't have nearly so much of a disparity.
I generally resent the product name manipulations for marketing purposes. I usually count a name with a capital "X", "ultra", "extreme", "-R", "Type R", "pro" as strikes against the actual product. Any idiot can slap a sticker onto a product name and make it seem better than it is. "FX" isn't helping either, though in AMD's case, it doesn't seem so pretentious.
And maybe it is a bit of a matter of contention, I haven't seen much value in slapping on huge size caches for desktop uses, which appears to be what the "Extreme Edition" is all about.
With our customers, they often specifically request Dell computers and they generally know exactly how much they cost.
I thought Dell's pricing varied quite a bit, depending on which division of Dell you bought the unit from, by the day of week, by the volume sold on a large order and what other discounts you've managed to fenagle.
Just because it is a greater movement doesn't mean it isn't madness. These people generally believe in a fringe set of ideologies and preach that a martyr's death in the war against infidels is rewarded with a great number of virgins in the afterlife. They believe in the total destruction of the Jewish race, Israel and the USA. They are also the same group of people that believe in female genital mutilation and that the slightest hint or even suspicion of impropriety by their women means a death sentence.
Just as TubeSteak said, Customs is allowed to search packages, and it is considered official business to make certain of compliance, packages are randomly searched, as well as some more suspicious ones are flagged as well.
I don't know why you'd want to record the childbirth with the mother in a state of undress. Even for family members, I think it is a bit much to record it.
At any rate, this is really stupid. Shipping legally purchased DVDs across the pond isn't illegal on either end.
Amazing. 10 pages of article with ads removed = 1 page of real text
This is what I've come to expect from sites purporting to be hardware enthusiast sites, and is why I don't visit them unless I have to. The actual content in one page is about 10% of the entire page, the rest is navigation and ads. I swear, this type of site knows nothing about sensible layout and design, as if these people are user interface and art school drop-outs. Two menu bars at the top, two columns on the side, a table of contents, piles and piles of ads, all on EVERY PAGE.
I would consider it to be a petty scare tactic. It doesn't make sense to try to sue your customer, and I don't think that any prosecutor would bother with this sort of case unless there is proof of infringement. BSA people can complain to the local Attourney General but unless there is some sort of proof.
Personally, I wouldn't allow any hostile entity into facilities entrusted to me unless there was a legitimate warrant of some kind. I think businesses are probably being smart enough to check with their legal counsel before being duped into allowing fishing expeditions.
I have to think that if a security problem is known, and they didn't fix the problem, then the people involved with security would be doubly liable if something happens. All the investigators would need is a few whistleblower's testimonies after an incident and someone's bacon is frying.
That'll work fine if you have an XGA-native display or a CRT. I don't play games, but if I had an LCD, and played games, I wouldn't want to play it at any other resolution than it's native panel resolution. Pixel multiplication and other scaling techniques doesn't look pretty on a large panel.
Of course, a few billion dollars is chump change to the entertainment industry. There's a long way to go.
That depends. You can break it down a bit. IIRC, the music industry makes about 1-2 B$ a year in the US. It was speculated that Google, Microsoft and Yahoo, when combined, have enough cash on hand to just buy the music industry.
For one, they are heavy and probably hot. The heat in particular makes most mobile computers unsuitable for comfortable on-lap use, the weight doesn't help either. Apparently, international standards allow the surfaces to be up to 128 degrees F / 54 C, which is unacceptably hot to me. It won't burn, but it is still incredibly uncomfortable. Even units built around the standard Centrino plaform runs hotter than what I would consider unacceptable.
One thing you might find is that most or all marketing literature for portable computers is devoid of the "laptop" notation for mobile computers. You might even find warnings hidden in the manual somewhere that the product is not designed for on-lap use and it should be only used on a hard, flat surface. A lot of these machines have vents and fan inlets on the bottom surface that are often blocked if used on a lap without some sort of tray underneath it.
It is unfortunate that these companies don't overtly try to correct this "laptop" misnomer, especialy as consumers make assumptions by the form factor that carry from times when mobile machines didn't run so f*cking hot.
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I run a lot of tabs in Firefox, but never pegged unless several of them are running Flash animations at the same time, which is one reason why I like FlashBlock.
The Palm-based PDAs I have used were pretty good. The only problem I had with my current unit, a Tapwave Zodiac, was a bad sync/charging cable. I think it multitasks, at least it allows playing music while doing other things. I've never had the need to run SSH or web browsing on such a tiny device.
Actually, since the Bush White House won't tell anyone what they are doing and will not allow any checks and balances or any sort of oversight as to what they are doing, I am personally scared of potential (though not necessarily certain) consequences. The part that they won't say what they are doing, or say what information they are gathering or any oversight. Bush has even claimed to be working within the rules of FISA at the very time he was routinely bypassing it.
With the Wilson case, they've already shown that they are willing to do for revenge, and they are also off-handedly showing how much they really do respect the institution of marriage their party claims to have, and they apparently have even hurt current intelligence becase Valerie Wilson was supposedly doing intelligence work on Iran's nuclear program when she was "outed".
The secret CIA torture prisons were only made known by leaks. Bush claims to be above the Geneva convention. Then there are the no-bid contracts, lying about noone forseeing levies failing (a video proved he did know the possibility), lying about intelligence of Iraq's supposed nuclear program, proclaiming the uncertain or disputed intelligence as certain intelligence and so on. I'm not sure if this administration is more retarted than malicious, or more malicious than retarted.
Fusion isn't necessarily clean, though probably a lot cleaner than anything else. It needs a lot of radiation shielding and greatly complicates dismantling because those shielding elements and everything in side the shield is fairly radioactive.
Word and Office are relatively expensive and a lot of people don't have those programs for that reason, and I don't think this is incentive to buy them. The largest share of users of Office and Word appear to be businesses, government and education, and I don't think their users are served well by this feature.
There are already a lot of programs that allow you to edit locally and update to LiveJournal, WordPress and many other services and common softare. I just don't see the point in a feature like this other than to get attention from sites like this.
The barrier for entry is almost non existant. Make a game, distribute on the web
The barrier is making the game. Making comics, blogging or producing a series of very short videos is a lot easier than making a game.
I do think getting a good game deal is getting noticed and having a compelling project idea. Getting noticed might come in the form of collaborating on an open source or shareware game.
It's Soylent Diesel.
True, corn-based enthanol is simply stupid. There are other forms of plants that will work well in the US, like switchgrass, with about 4.5 times the energy ouput vs. the energy input. If this proof of concept is true, then algae could be even better, though the combustion cycle and fuel delivery system in the car would be different.
I like building my own PC's,
Really? I find the soldering work to be a bitch.
In 2004, GE spent about $33 million on Section 404 compliance, and costs ran about the same in 2005, Ameen said.
According to a quick perusal of GE's 2004 10-K, they had $20 billion in pre-tax income. I don't think $33 million is remotely too much to insure that that 10-K is correct.
That turns out to be 0.16% of the total income. Not bad, though expenses generally tend to add up, I don't know what compliance to other regulations cost. I imagine GE can forgo a the operation of couple of their executive jets.
Thank you for that link, I bookmarked it. The last time I related that story, someone responded saying that the Chinese government would never do something like that, and I didn't have a link handy.
a possible (or even certain) problem in the future is better thqan that same problem now. by the time DDT loses effectiveness we might have better treatment for malaria or better cheap insecticides.
That takes research that isn't being done and especially money that isn't being spent. I heard a program on Science Friday that said that many strains of malaria are almost totally resistant against current drugs, in part because they are being misused. I think the comment was that there were many more drugs being developed for erectile dysfunction than there are for malaria and similar diseases that are killing countless people.
At any rate, it is a little irresponsible to blindly continue doing something now in the hopes that there is a fix for the problems that action creates. This is a very difficult issue because there are potential consequences on both sides that must be carefully weighed.
I may be wrong, but it appears that benchmark was deliberately chosen out of a bias. The UT04 benchmark seems to run better on AMDs. When making comparisons of dissimilar architectures, no single test, nor any single type of test is suitable. While the AMD is faster at most of the other tests, most of them don't have nearly so much of a disparity.
I generally resent the product name manipulations for marketing purposes. I usually count a name with a capital "X", "ultra", "extreme", "-R", "Type R", "pro" as strikes against the actual product. Any idiot can slap a sticker onto a product name and make it seem better than it is. "FX" isn't helping either, though in AMD's case, it doesn't seem so pretentious.
And maybe it is a bit of a matter of contention, I haven't seen much value in slapping on huge size caches for desktop uses, which appears to be what the "Extreme Edition" is all about.
With our customers, they often specifically request Dell computers and they generally know exactly how much they cost.
I thought Dell's pricing varied quite a bit, depending on which division of Dell you bought the unit from, by the day of week, by the volume sold on a large order and what other discounts you've managed to fenagle.
Just because it is a greater movement doesn't mean it isn't madness. These people generally believe in a fringe set of ideologies and preach that a martyr's death in the war against infidels is rewarded with a great number of virgins in the afterlife. They believe in the total destruction of the Jewish race, Israel and the USA. They are also the same group of people that believe in female genital mutilation and that the slightest hint or even suspicion of impropriety by their women means a death sentence.
Just as TubeSteak said, Customs is allowed to search packages, and it is considered official business to make certain of compliance, packages are randomly searched, as well as some more suspicious ones are flagged as well.
I don't know why you'd want to record the childbirth with the mother in a state of undress. Even for family members, I think it is a bit much to record it.
At any rate, this is really stupid. Shipping legally purchased DVDs across the pond isn't illegal on either end.
Amazing. 10 pages of article with ads removed = 1 page of real text
This is what I've come to expect from sites purporting to be hardware enthusiast sites, and is why I don't visit them unless I have to. The actual content in one page is about 10% of the entire page, the rest is navigation and ads. I swear, this type of site knows nothing about sensible layout and design, as if these people are user interface and art school drop-outs. Two menu bars at the top, two columns on the side, a table of contents, piles and piles of ads, all on EVERY PAGE.
If you know of a set of good color goggles that exceed VGA resolution, please submit them.
I would consider it to be a petty scare tactic. It doesn't make sense to try to sue your customer, and I don't think that any prosecutor would bother with this sort of case unless there is proof of infringement. BSA people can complain to the local Attourney General but unless there is some sort of proof.
Personally, I wouldn't allow any hostile entity into facilities entrusted to me unless there was a legitimate warrant of some kind. I think businesses are probably being smart enough to check with their legal counsel before being duped into allowing fishing expeditions.
I have to think that if a security problem is known, and they didn't fix the problem, then the people involved with security would be doubly liable if something happens. All the investigators would need is a few whistleblower's testimonies after an incident and someone's bacon is frying.
That'll work fine if you have an XGA-native display or a CRT. I don't play games, but if I had an LCD, and played games, I wouldn't want to play it at any other resolution than it's native panel resolution. Pixel multiplication and other scaling techniques doesn't look pretty on a large panel.
Of course, a few billion dollars is chump change to the entertainment industry. There's a long way to go.
That depends. You can break it down a bit. IIRC, the music industry makes about 1-2 B$ a year in the US. It was speculated that Google, Microsoft and Yahoo, when combined, have enough cash on hand to just buy the music industry.
For one, they are heavy and probably hot. The heat in particular makes most mobile computers unsuitable for comfortable on-lap use, the weight doesn't help either. Apparently, international standards allow the surfaces to be up to 128 degrees F / 54 C, which is unacceptably hot to me. It won't burn, but it is still incredibly uncomfortable. Even units built around the standard Centrino plaform runs hotter than what I would consider unacceptable.
One thing you might find is that most or all marketing literature for portable computers is devoid of the "laptop" notation for mobile computers. You might even find warnings hidden in the manual somewhere that the product is not designed for on-lap use and it should be only used on a hard, flat surface. A lot of these machines have vents and fan inlets on the bottom surface that are often blocked if used on a lap without some sort of tray underneath it.
It is unfortunate that these companies don't overtly try to correct this "laptop" misnomer, especialy as consumers make assumptions by the form factor that carry from times when mobile machines didn't run so f*cking hot.
With a quick Googling, it looks like switchgrass has about 4-4.5 the energy density of corn, without the politics surrounding hemp.