After the digital switchover, whenever there's a storm or disaster that results in a blackout, how do they propose that we tune into emergency TV broadcasts? There are no standalone battery powered ATSC receivers that I know of, and paying well over $300 (combined average cost) for a pocket digital TV seems a bit steep, considering one can get a battery powered 5" b/w TV for less than $30 before tax.
Being that most PCs have a relatively high heat output, I just turn off the thermostat in my bedroom, so that the excess heat in my box warms the rest of the room.
My computer consumes about 400W. The baseboard heater consumes 1000W. The lower constant heating is more comfortable to deal with, since most electric heating systems alternate between uncomfortably high heat, then uncomfortably low cold before the thermostat cycles on.
And being that yellowjackets are closely related to the more predatory hornet (both species harvest various insects, including bees), and that yellowjackets harvest arthropods late in their yearly cycle (which would be extended, due to warmer winters), is it possible the bees are suffering predation? The hornet video below illustrated such an event.
More like sensationalism in action. The reporter probably shot a good three hours of interviews, weeded out the substance, and kept the all important drama(it was reported by a Fox network, after all).
As a side note, this happened with those guys who were "busted" for purchasing prepaid cel phones a short while back. Every news network covering it first made certain everyone knew they were of middle eastern origin, and then, to make sure they were damnned further, showed the police chief (who was just soaking up the publicity) stating "And they had BOX CUTTERS." (dun dun DUNNNNNNN). Why not claim them as the other missing 9/11 hijackers while they were at it?
But either way, the networks aren't about news anymore. They're spending roughly 23 hours of each day reporting on Anna Nicole Smith and Britney Spears, and ignoring everything going on in the government, so a slowly self destructing singer is more important than a slowly self destructing country.
Look. If you want mainstream acceptance, then appeal to the mainstream. THAT is what will determine the best distro.
One of the previous episodes of Drawn Together put it best: Spanky (to the TV Reviewer): No wonder you hate the show so much. You're everything we make fun of! You're a Jewish, conservative, pro-life, born again, overweight, Asian, homophobic lesbian broad who cuts herself! Reviewer: So? Spanky: So, maybe someone who doesn't happen to be a Jewish, conservative, pro-life, born again, overweight, Indian, homophobic lesbian broad who cuts herself might not be offended by our show. Reviewer: I have every right to tell people what I think of your show. Spanky: Yes! But people should know you're not our audience, asshole!
You aren't making an OS to appeal to the guy in the cubibicle next to you in the CS class in college. You're making an OS, by your own claims basically, to overthrow the evil overlords (AKA Microsoft, if you ain't got it yet). So why is this STILL a debate today?
Keerhist, I'm a furry artist, and even I recognize the concept of a limited market margin, but I don't spend my time in debates and having epileptic fits or Tourettes outbreaks in order to try forcing non furry fans to accept what I draw. Jeeze.
What is SMART monitoring really good for? Not one drive I've had it enabled has given me a "warning, this drive is about to fail" alert. Instead, it would be a random clunking sound, or the system would freeze up entirely (hard to tell what's at fault at first, if you use Windows.;).
Now I'm no engineer, but what strikes me as a better alternative is to toss on a 1Gb flash storage chip, and keep a redundant index/record of live/recoverable sectors. As the HD first starts to fail, the BIOS can pop up a warning window on reboot, advising the user to put in a replacement. After which, the HD clones itself automatically, based on the index files. Files that are damaged could be recovered as well, or discarded in the ol' bitbucket. 45 minutes for an OS repair install, and you're done. No scrambling to download everything all over again.
Another alternative is a hybrid solid state HD (I think there was a/. article about this a while ago). If the HD BIOS detects impending doom, it can just dump the most critical (eg; user files, OS, irreplaceable stuff) to flash, then copy it over to a fresh drive.
I knew it was a rotten apple long ago. I'm currently an XP user, but am using the time I have before MS discontinues support for it to learn Linux in at least some form, namely Ubuntu (which as far as hand holding Linux distros go, is the best I can use. I figured out how to get my TV tuner card running in it after just 10 minutes, and how to run video downloads in another 30).
Mind you, I would prefer to use an OS straight out of the box, without having to learn how it works from the ground up. Ubuntu does this for the most part. I'll most likely still use XP just because there are more drivers that support it (printing, digital cameras, et al), but with hardware firewalls in my router and despite the probable cut off date for support, my risks are further minimalized.
Wish I didn't have to do it, however. I just want my box to do what I want, I don't want to be involved in a religious war or inquisition in order to do it.
Wish the Linux guys would have figured that out 5 years ago when it would have made a difference.
The only way to reduce the reliance on DNA records (yet further validate the use of such in court cases, when the innocents are tried), is to increase the signal/noise ratio. In the case of the movie Gattaca, the way the main character assumed another's identity was by collecting miscellaneous tissue (hair, skin, blood) samples and strategically leaving them around the workplace, so that anyone investigating him would find the DNA for the man he was impersonating.
This could work similarly, if one was, say, to go an extra day or two between showers, as just everyday life would result in little samplings of DNA scattering everywhere. After they find your DNA sample at a liquor store following a robbery, for example, they would be forced to release you, and even pay financial restitution, when they find the same DNA on later crime scenes while you remain incarcerated. At the best, they're forced to pay you off, at the worst, they pay your attorney's fees and the final reward is proving such a cataloging system is flawed and unreliable.
The only question is in the decay rate of DNA. Considering how so many people are being released from prison based on decades old DNA evidence, I'm guessing DNA survives for a relatively long time.
Up here, there's a nice art deco building, started as a supermarket, then up until a couple of years ago, existed as a video game arcade. Now it's a courthouse. The irony would be mind boggling.
I'm sure Stephen Colbert is shopping around for bear proof armor. Especially since apparently someone has put in a constitutional amendment that arms all bears.
Contrary to how cool such things look in sci fi movies, lighting elements inside of any helmet do not help, and in fact, hinder the wearer. Ever turn the lights on inside your car while driving at night? Now imagine your windshield is a little more vertical, so it reflects those indoor lights directly into your eyes. You're going to lose up to 3/4 of your nightvision.
It goes beyond stupid ideas, and enters the realm of the retarded.
Federal Way is almost 26 miles south of Seattle, and the only thing in common both cities have is that they both share the same county. It's like saying San Jose is San Francisco, because they both have "San" in their names.
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That God Mode is just a figure of speech?
After the digital switchover, whenever there's a storm or disaster that results in a blackout, how do they propose that we tune into emergency TV broadcasts? There are no standalone battery powered ATSC receivers that I know of, and paying well over $300 (combined average cost) for a pocket digital TV seems a bit steep, considering one can get a battery powered 5" b/w TV for less than $30 before tax.
Somewhere there's a naked Jedi running around.
Being that most PCs have a relatively high heat output, I just turn off the thermostat in my bedroom, so that the excess heat in my box warms the rest of the room.
My computer consumes about 400W. The baseboard heater consumes 1000W. The lower constant heating is more comfortable to deal with, since most electric heating systems alternate between uncomfortably high heat, then uncomfortably low cold before the thermostat cycles on.
One thing I found to be unusual, and possibly more worth examining, is how the areas illustrated in the article map are almost precisely the same shape as the major continents. See http://images.livescience.com/images/070228_beijin g_anom_02.jpg
Seems kinda weird, possibly a leftover effect from previous tectonic shifts?
As seen in the recent case of a classic Chevy being turned into a massive nest, and surviving longer than one season due to warmer winters:
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http://j-walkblog.com/index.php?/weblog/comments/
And being that yellowjackets are closely related to the more predatory hornet (both species harvest various insects, including bees), and that yellowjackets harvest arthropods late in their yearly cycle (which would be extended, due to warmer winters), is it possible the bees are suffering predation? The hornet video below illustrated such an event.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=K05jTrOTgj0
Are you sure he wasn't mispelling "grape"?
More like sensationalism in action. The reporter probably shot a good three hours of interviews, weeded out the substance, and kept the all important drama(it was reported by a Fox network, after all).
As a side note, this happened with those guys who were "busted" for purchasing prepaid cel phones a short while back. Every news network covering it first made certain everyone knew they were of middle eastern origin, and then, to make sure they were damnned further, showed the police chief (who was just soaking up the publicity) stating "And they had BOX CUTTERS." (dun dun DUNNNNNNN). Why not claim them as the other missing 9/11 hijackers while they were at it?
But either way, the networks aren't about news anymore. They're spending roughly 23 hours of each day reporting on Anna Nicole Smith and Britney Spears, and ignoring everything going on in the government, so a slowly self destructing singer is more important than a slowly self destructing country.
Look. If you want mainstream acceptance, then appeal to the mainstream. THAT is what will determine the best distro.
One of the previous episodes of Drawn Together put it best:
Spanky (to the TV Reviewer): No wonder you hate the show so much. You're everything we make fun of! You're a Jewish, conservative, pro-life, born again, overweight, Asian, homophobic lesbian broad who cuts herself!
Reviewer: So?
Spanky: So, maybe someone who doesn't happen to be a Jewish, conservative, pro-life, born again, overweight, Indian, homophobic lesbian broad who cuts herself might not be offended by our show.
Reviewer: I have every right to tell people what I think of your show.
Spanky: Yes! But people should know you're not our audience, asshole!
You aren't making an OS to appeal to the guy in the cubibicle next to you in the CS class in college. You're making an OS, by your own claims basically, to overthrow the evil overlords (AKA Microsoft, if you ain't got it yet). So why is this STILL a debate today?
Keerhist, I'm a furry artist, and even I recognize the concept of a limited market margin, but I don't spend my time in debates and having epileptic fits or Tourettes outbreaks in order to try forcing non furry fans to accept what I draw. Jeeze.
What is SMART monitoring really good for? Not one drive I've had it enabled has given me a "warning, this drive is about to fail" alert. Instead, it would be a random clunking sound, or the system would freeze up entirely (hard to tell what's at fault at first, if you use Windows.;).
/. article about this a while ago). If the HD BIOS detects impending doom, it can just dump the most critical (eg; user files, OS, irreplaceable stuff) to flash, then copy it over to a fresh drive.
Now I'm no engineer, but what strikes me as a better alternative is to toss on a 1Gb flash storage chip, and keep a redundant index/record of live/recoverable sectors. As the HD first starts to fail, the BIOS can pop up a warning window on reboot, advising the user to put in a replacement. After which, the HD clones itself automatically, based on the index files. Files that are damaged could be recovered as well, or discarded in the ol' bitbucket. 45 minutes for an OS repair install, and you're done. No scrambling to download everything all over again.
Another alternative is a hybrid solid state HD (I think there was a
But anyhoo, that's my 2 cents.
He tried to screw me somewhere very uncomfortable once.
What like the back of a Volkswagen?
Same joke applies to Ferraris, left intact to preserve the reference.
I for one welcome our irradiated mutant Twinkie overlords. All hail Twinkie the Kid! May he balance his merciless crueltry with cruel mercy!
The pod people did this years ago with Invasion of the Body Snatchers. And quite well too- SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
And Fantastic Flour!
I knew it was a rotten apple long ago. I'm currently an XP user, but am using the time I have before MS discontinues support for it to learn Linux in at least some form, namely Ubuntu (which as far as hand holding Linux distros go, is the best I can use. I figured out how to get my TV tuner card running in it after just 10 minutes, and how to run video downloads in another 30).
Mind you, I would prefer to use an OS straight out of the box, without having to learn how it works from the ground up. Ubuntu does this for the most part. I'll most likely still use XP just because there are more drivers that support it (printing, digital cameras, et al), but with hardware firewalls in my router and despite the probable cut off date for support, my risks are further minimalized.
Wish I didn't have to do it, however. I just want my box to do what I want, I don't want to be involved in a religious war or inquisition in order to do it.
Wish the Linux guys would have figured that out 5 years ago when it would have made a difference.
So Scientology is based on the air speed velocity of a coconut laden swallow?
The only way to reduce the reliance on DNA records (yet further validate the use of such in court cases, when the innocents are tried), is to increase the signal/noise ratio. In the case of the movie Gattaca, the way the main character assumed another's identity was by collecting miscellaneous tissue (hair, skin, blood) samples and strategically leaving them around the workplace, so that anyone investigating him would find the DNA for the man he was impersonating.
This could work similarly, if one was, say, to go an extra day or two between showers, as just everyday life would result in little samplings of DNA scattering everywhere. After they find your DNA sample at a liquor store following a robbery, for example, they would be forced to release you, and even pay financial restitution, when they find the same DNA on later crime scenes while you remain incarcerated. At the best, they're forced to pay you off, at the worst, they pay your attorney's fees and the final reward is proving such a cataloging system is flawed and unreliable.
The only question is in the decay rate of DNA. Considering how so many people are being released from prison based on decades old DNA evidence, I'm guessing DNA survives for a relatively long time.
Up here, there's a nice art deco building, started as a supermarket, then up until a couple of years ago, existed as a video game arcade. Now it's a courthouse. The irony would be mind boggling.
"But I don't have to go in shportsh bars anymore which is much more important."
Sounds like you still don't mind the occasional visit, IMO.
Dammit, I said clock radio. CLOCK radio!
I'm sure Stephen Colbert is shopping around for bear proof armor. Especially since apparently someone has put in a constitutional amendment that arms all bears.
Contrary to how cool such things look in sci fi movies, lighting elements inside of any helmet do not help, and in fact, hinder the wearer. Ever turn the lights on inside your car while driving at night? Now imagine your windshield is a little more vertical, so it reflects those indoor lights directly into your eyes. You're going to lose up to 3/4 of your nightvision.
It goes beyond stupid ideas, and enters the realm of the retarded.
The term is "Rabbit Starvation", whereas extremely lean meat causes a form of malnutrition.
http://www.columbusdispatch.com/national/national. php?story=190762
He's also pro PowerPoint, except when Al Gore uses it.
Federal Way is almost 26 miles south of Seattle, and the only thing in common both cities have is that they both share the same county. It's like saying San Jose is San Francisco, because they both have "San" in their names.