When I was younger, I pirated a lot of games. I had little spending money and a lot of free time. Now for the situation has reversed, I have money to buy a lot of games, but little free time to actually play them. So with the exception of games from a couple studios (Blizzard and Valve), I only buy games when they pass my impulse buy threshold. That way if I am more likely to get value out of the purchase even if I don't end up playing it that much.
It can be done in mysql without using loops, but its not as elegant and requires an extra table. Simply create an association table that links each child node back to each of its parents. You will have to keep it up to date, but it can be easily rebuilt if it gets out of sync. But the query then is as simple as joining that table when you need to select all the child nodes under a given parent.
We have socialized provider system, but a private payer system.
Anyone can get care in the US, no matter their ability to pay, especially with emergency care. The cost of providing this care is passed on to those who can still afford to pay for medical costs or insurance.
There are a huge number of people who make to much to qualify for government programs, but not enough to afford private insurance and are not provided with insurance through an employer or do not qualify due to pre-existing conditions. The number of people in this category at last estimate is around 45 million. These people still use healthcare services, a few can pay for it out of pocket, but many end up getting the bill forgiven through bankruptcy or other means.
If all these people became payers into the system, at any level, it would bring down costs for those who can still afford to pay for insurance. It would not bring down the overall costs as much as other measures, but it would spread the cost for a health care system much more fairly. It can bring down costs in that people will be more likely to seek cheaper preventive care instead of waiting until a problem requires much more expensive emergency care.
With the exception of number 1, I can't imagine any ISP's going along with this. A large number of people download music and movies, many of them unlicensed. The file distribution networks gave users what the RI/MPAA wouldn't and has cemented itself into internet culture. People don't think twice about downloading a movie or song off of pirate bay anymore.
A company may be ok shutting down a small handful of customers, but the practice of file sharing is pretty ingrained into an entire generation. Would an ISP willingly start disconnecting a large number of its customers?
The issue with Vista had nothing to do with process performance, for the most part, burning a CD or running a batch operation in Photoshop, generally took the same amount of time in both XP and Vista.
The issue had to do with UI performance, for example, the time it takes for a menu to appear when a user requests it or how quickly a folder populates with file. Unfortunately, most benchmarks don't test that.
Everything is driven by supply and demand. In the case of the housing market, weak lending practices created a demand much greater than the market would support under normal conditions. It's not hard to predict that the market would eventually catch up to this.
If you just bought a house, your pretty much screwed, unless you plan to stay where you are for the next 20-30 years. Prices will likely drop over the next 2 years or so depending on your market. If you have to sell, you will have a mortgage larger than the value of the house.
I think its unlikely we will see an equivalent housing boom again. Unless banks and mortgage lenders don't learn from their mistakes.
In Sony's case it was some weird format only Sony and Sony products used. Not nearly as common as WMA or the Itunes format for that matter. There are tools to remove WMA and Itunes DRM, but none that I know of for that format.
Sony Connect store did the same, but they were switching from a propriety format to something based on windows media.
Even they recommended the burn to CD and re-rip method, but the problem with that is the horrible loss of quality. The downloaded tracks are already lossy encoded. The lost data is not recreated by burning it to CD. And you will be ripping it back into a lossy format, from a source thats already lossy.
In my opinion, they should make available a tool that strips the DRM but leave the audio data pretty much intact.
Well when steam is running, you can set its process priority to a lower level, and then launch a game. That way if it does start hogging CPU, you can alt-tab out and not be forced to reboot. Assuming you have the same issue.
It seemed for me, to only be an issue with source engine games. And not all of them either.
I had issues with my old hardware, were steam would take 100% power locking up any game running with it. Which made playing EP1 an exercise in frustration. I think it was an issue with the motherboard, or in combination with the RAM and video card. Since I've replaced it, those issues have since gone away.
Nope, from the page:
The company Minds@Work is no longer in business.
This site contains no information on Minds@Work company and is not run by them.
This site was created so that the current owners of the DigitalWallet and MindStor can gain access to the latest drivers, firmware and manuals. All of the manuals have been moved to a Yahoo Group. You will also find the Mac format drivers there as well.
You may not get car bombed by those groups, but if you attack their religion, many of them will find a way to retaliate.
Attacking Christianity, did at one time get you burned at the stake. Now, as long as you don't get on the bad side of someone who is homicidal, you just get condemned to hell on TV or radio.
Attacking Scientology will get you sued as has been covered on Slashdot quite often.
Attacking the policies of the state of Israel, gets you labeled as an anti-semite. Even by people who are not even Jewish.
Attacking Geeks, you just might have a little trouble keeping money in your bank account or using any technology.
How do you know that the drive will evenly distribute writes per cell? Its more likely that some cells may remain untouched, which other cells may get written or changed much more frequently.
that doesn't necessarily imply that the earth is spherical. You can have a circle on a flat plane and thats likely how that phrase would have been interpreted.
I don't really have a problem with this idea, but they should be using more accurate measures of health. BMI isn't entirely accurate. Its tries to place everyone on the same standard, but that standard varies from person to person.
But there is also a misconception that everyone who is obese made the choice to be. Which isn't entirely true. Some medical conditions, genetic or otherwise, make it difficult for some people to control weight.
In my opinion, its not a bad idea, but they should be basing the extra costs and rewards on other things. Go regularly to the gym -$10. Eat fast food regularly, +$10.
You don't necessarily need a job to get experience. Freelancing, open source projects, or internships are all good ways to get work experience. Plus it helps you network, which makes it easier to get the really good jobs.
Google is making money. There is no doubt about that. But does the value of the company accurately reflect its performance. On that note, I think its overvalued.
Compare Yahoo to Google: Yahoo has a market capitalization of about $30 billion, its last years sales were around $6 billion. Google made $10 billion, but its market capitalization is much higher, at $150 billion. There are some other factors to consider, this is just a rough estimate, but is Google really worth what the market says it is today?
I think some companies in this current era of the web are a bit over valued. (Google in particular comes to mind) Its likely that at some point, the market will correct that. But in general, companies are much more stable and substantive than they were in the late 90's.
But realistically, you can compress a full length 720p HD movie to about 5 GB without much compression artifacts, with the right codec. So either format is enough for HD.
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When I was younger, I pirated a lot of games. I had little spending money and a lot of free time. Now for the situation has reversed, I have money to buy a lot of games, but little free time to actually play them. So with the exception of games from a couple studios (Blizzard and Valve), I only buy games when they pass my impulse buy threshold. That way if I am more likely to get value out of the purchase even if I don't end up playing it that much.
It can be done in mysql without using loops, but its not as elegant and requires an extra table. Simply create an association table that links each child node back to each of its parents. You will have to keep it up to date, but it can be easily rebuilt if it gets out of sync. But the query then is as simple as joining that table when you need to select all the child nodes under a given parent.
You missed the biggest and most expensive reason.
We have socialized provider system, but a private payer system.
Anyone can get care in the US, no matter their ability to pay, especially with emergency care. The cost of providing this care is passed on to those who can still afford to pay for medical costs or insurance.
There are a huge number of people who make to much to qualify for government programs, but not enough to afford private insurance and are not provided with insurance through an employer or do not qualify due to pre-existing conditions. The number of people in this category at last estimate is around 45 million. These people still use healthcare services, a few can pay for it out of pocket, but many end up getting the bill forgiven through bankruptcy or other means.
If all these people became payers into the system, at any level, it would bring down costs for those who can still afford to pay for insurance. It would not bring down the overall costs as much as other measures, but it would spread the cost for a health care system much more fairly. It can bring down costs in that people will be more likely to seek cheaper preventive care instead of waiting until a problem requires much more expensive emergency care.
With the exception of number 1, I can't imagine any ISP's going along with this. A large number of people download music and movies, many of them unlicensed. The file distribution networks gave users what the RI/MPAA wouldn't and has cemented itself into internet culture. People don't think twice about downloading a movie or song off of pirate bay anymore.
A company may be ok shutting down a small handful of customers, but the practice of file sharing is pretty ingrained into an entire generation. Would an ISP willingly start disconnecting a large number of its customers?
The issue with Vista had nothing to do with process performance, for the most part, burning a CD or running a batch operation in Photoshop, generally took the same amount of time in both XP and Vista.
The issue had to do with UI performance, for example, the time it takes for a menu to appear when a user requests it or how quickly a folder populates with file. Unfortunately, most benchmarks don't test that.
Depends on your market. For the site I manage, IE usage is about 85%. FF is at about 10%, Safari 2% and Opera is to small to even count.
But then most of our customers are not very fluent with technology.
Everything is driven by supply and demand. In the case of the housing market, weak lending practices created a demand much greater than the market would support under normal conditions. It's not hard to predict that the market would eventually catch up to this.
If you just bought a house, your pretty much screwed, unless you plan to stay where you are for the next 20-30 years. Prices will likely drop over the next 2 years or so depending on your market. If you have to sell, you will have a mortgage larger than the value of the house.
I think its unlikely we will see an equivalent housing boom again. Unless banks and mortgage lenders don't learn from their mistakes.
In Sony's case it was some weird format only Sony and Sony products used. Not nearly as common as WMA or the Itunes format for that matter. There are tools to remove WMA and Itunes DRM, but none that I know of for that format.
Sony Connect store did the same, but they were switching from a propriety format to something based on windows media.
Even they recommended the burn to CD and re-rip method, but the problem with that is the horrible loss of quality. The downloaded tracks are already lossy encoded. The lost data is not recreated by burning it to CD. And you will be ripping it back into a lossy format, from a source thats already lossy.
In my opinion, they should make available a tool that strips the DRM but leave the audio data pretty much intact.
Well when steam is running, you can set its process priority to a lower level, and then launch a game. That way if it does start hogging CPU, you can alt-tab out and not be forced to reboot. Assuming you have the same issue.
It seemed for me, to only be an issue with source engine games. And not all of them either.
I had issues with my old hardware, were steam would take 100% power locking up any game running with it. Which made playing EP1 an exercise in frustration. I think it was an issue with the motherboard, or in combination with the RAM and video card. Since I've replaced it, those issues have since gone away.
They probably will, but there is no package or pricing on Steam for it yet.
It is according to this page: http://steampowered.com/v/index.php?area=package&SubId=469&cc=US
Lets see here: Orange box $49.95, or pre-order for $44.95.
Or if you were to buy the new games separately:
EP2 = $29.95
Portal = $19.95
TF2 = $29.95
I suppose they could make a package containing only the new games, but I doubt that it would be any cheaper.
This site contains no information on Minds@Work company and is not run by them.
This site was created so that the current owners of the DigitalWallet and MindStor can gain access to the latest drivers, firmware and manuals. All of the manuals have been moved to a Yahoo Group. You will also find the Mac format drivers there as well.
You may not get car bombed by those groups, but if you attack their religion, many of them will find a way to retaliate.
Attacking Christianity, did at one time get you burned at the stake. Now, as long as you don't get on the bad side of someone who is homicidal, you just get condemned to hell on TV or radio.
Attacking Scientology will get you sued as has been covered on Slashdot quite often.
Attacking the policies of the state of Israel, gets you labeled as an anti-semite. Even by people who are not even Jewish.
Attacking Geeks, you just might have a little trouble keeping money in your bank account or using any technology.
How do you know that the drive will evenly distribute writes per cell? Its more likely that some cells may remain untouched, which other cells may get written or changed much more frequently.
that doesn't necessarily imply that the earth is spherical. You can have a circle on a flat plane and thats likely how that phrase would have been interpreted.
Privacy? Most Americans will give up their privacy for a discount card at the supermarket.
I don't really have a problem with this idea, but they should be using more accurate measures of health. BMI isn't entirely accurate. Its tries to place everyone on the same standard, but that standard varies from person to person.
But there is also a misconception that everyone who is obese made the choice to be. Which isn't entirely true. Some medical conditions, genetic or otherwise, make it difficult for some people to control weight.
In my opinion, its not a bad idea, but they should be basing the extra costs and rewards on other things. Go regularly to the gym -$10. Eat fast food regularly, +$10.
You don't necessarily need a job to get experience. Freelancing, open source projects, or internships are all good ways to get work experience. Plus it helps you network, which makes it easier to get the really good jobs.
Google is making money. There is no doubt about that. But does the value of the company accurately reflect its performance. On that note, I think its overvalued.
Compare Yahoo to Google: Yahoo has a market capitalization of about $30 billion, its last years sales were around $6 billion. Google made $10 billion, but its market capitalization is much higher, at $150 billion. There are some other factors to consider, this is just a rough estimate, but is Google really worth what the market says it is today?
I think some companies in this current era of the web are a bit over valued. (Google in particular comes to mind) Its likely that at some point, the market will correct that. But in general, companies are much more stable and substantive than they were in the late 90's.
Its 30GB for HD-DVD and 50GB for Blue Ray.
But realistically, you can compress a full length 720p HD movie to about 5 GB without much compression artifacts, with the right codec. So either format is enough for HD.
If it's plain, but if it includes any complex formulas or scripting. Then its hit and miss.