He could always pull a Cliff Clavin and bet it all on a final Jeopardy dream category and then not know the answer. This seems unlikely though since he tends to have an insurmountable lead.
What they need is a show loaded against Mormons. Have a "Potent Potables" category in each of the first two rounds, then add a Kama Sutra category, an illicit drug category, and a category about tattoos.
Perhaps this will lead to a series of super-champions, who only lose to other super-champions. The the tournament of champions would be a duel of clicking in the instant Alex began to speak, hoping that you know the answer.
There is a guy in Colorado that plays game shows professionally. He has been on Jeopardy more than once and has been on Millionaire before.
While your post is obviously a joke, it brings to mind an interesting point. It isn't clear that the rampant piracy in the world doesn't benefit Microsoft!
Imagine if instead of pirating MS products people instead used less expensive alternatives or even Free Software. The Microsoft would be much less of a standard and businesses wouldn't feel as compelled to use it. The current situation is a de facto two-tier pricing scheme (the tiers being expensive and free), in which the people with deep pockets who are possible BSA audit targets pay big bucks for software, while the monopoly is actually reinforced by piracy on the low end that might have considered using another product were it not for piracy. Thus the evil that is the.doc format is a standard in practice and everyone feels pressure to own Word because of it, leading to more profits for Microsoft.
How much money has Microsoft lost on Windows in the past year?
Using the word "lost" is an abuse of the language. There is revenue that has not been realized, but quatifying how much would have been realized without piracy is difficult.
Yeah, that wasn't out yet when I got mine. Also, I wish that mine was USB 2.0 as well, but the write speed wouldn't be that much greater since flash write speeds are the bottleneck.
I have a NexII as well and I used it all the time. The I recently bought a 512MB flash player that doubles as a usb drive. It was only $150 and can run for a long time on a single AAA battery. I don't know how long exactly since I haven't tried timing it, but it lasts through two five hours listening sessions on long flights with juice to spare. It is smaller and lighter than the NexII. The only downside is the lack of a screen, but I don't use a screen while jogging anyhow.
I code in fixed width fonts as well, but I don't post to/. using them unless I am posting code. I think that people the tt tag to make their otherwise unremarkable posts stand out from the crowd visually by making it harder to read.
What is the harm in attacking the problems on multiple fronts? You could give someone a fish and teach them to fish at the same time. HP is certainly more qualified to help in the way that it is helping than in AIDS education. We have Bill Gates for that.
Speaking of phones, it's possible for me to take my cellular phone, and drive from Cape Town (southernmost city in Africa) to Cairo (capital of Egypt for in case you don't know) and only lose signal in a couple of places. Can you do that in the US? 'Fraid not! Only under very special circumstances can you roam with your cellular phone outside your home-state borders.
As another poster has alluded to, it is impossible to drive from Cape Town to Cairo while in the USA. In fact, this can only be done in Africa.
I drove from Salt Lake City to Boston two years ago and never found myself wanting for cellular service and didn't pay any roaming charges. Most cell companies in the USA offer plans that allow you to use your minutes nearly anywhere in the country to call any other location in the country without paying for roaming. The first time I have paid for roaming in over a year was when I called home from Toronto yesterday.
Please note that none of this important to the discussion of computers in Africa, but your characterization of cell phone service in the USA is inaccurate.
As long as we're off topic, did you know that the federally mandated drinking drinking age of 21 was signed into law by Ronald Reagan in the 1980's, rather than during prohibition as you seem to think it was?
You still have to jam it into a box the size of an iMac.
Yes I read what he said. My point is that you do have some control of the heat, and that is where he is wrong. Given that he doesn't understand that I would guess that he isn't an expert on designing the small, trendsetting cases that Apple comes out with for the iMac.
First of all, you don't have any control over how much heat the G5 generates. No case layout, heatsinks, fans, can do anything of the sort. It's going to generate as much heat as it's going to generate.
Not true! Voltage and clockspeed both influence hot hot a processor runs. Many people that want to run fanless for noise reasons will buy a fast processor and underclock it so that it will run cool.
Another clever way of combatting heat is to be able to change speed on the fly, so that you match the current processing load. If you are editing code the processor can run slow and then when you compile it cranks up to full speed. This way you don't have a performance penalty but you aren't generating lots of heat the entire time.
It's really not a hot processor, so anyone who knows the basics of cooling a computer can handle it.
You seem to be oversimplifying the problem of cooling a G5 in the space of an iMac. Maybe once you've mailed in your solution you can tell them how to get one (or two!) into a Powerbook as well.
I didn't say it was legal. It is illegal because of the recent law that says that taking a camcorder into a theater is illegal. It isn't clear to me that infringement has taken place by simply recording something, but recording it is the first step to viewing it again or making copies. So is it infringement if you have your camcorder in the theater and record the first 3 minutes of the movie?
Actually it isn't a proprietary lock-in. The file format is standard and Apple didn't even come up with it. Files that you have ripped yourself and are DRM free would still be unplayable. The DRM does limit the flexibility though.
All of which are taken care of when the driver takes responsibly for his actions.
What does that even mean? How do you take responsibility for your actions if you kill someone? There are situations in which you can't take full responsibility for you actions after they've occured. At least you can't make any sort of financial restitution. In any case, if that is your attitude, then you should look having to pay tickets as a simple consequence of your actions, for which the speeder must take responsibility. They know what the law is and are responsible.
If the driver can always keep control of the vehicle under the conditions, the vehicle can handle the speed well, the driver is RESPONSIBLE (such as knowing the braking distance for your car at a given speed, if you are going very fast -- but that is part of keeping control), then no. It's all about personal responsibility... My phrase of the day.
Ok, so in your opinion there is no speed that is inherently unsafe. I guess c is the only real limit in your world. While I agree with you about the tailgating at 25 being more dangerous than speeding in some situations your premise is untenable. In fact this discussion becoming absurd. In your other response you state that cops can tell "by the results" if someone is capable of driving at a certain speed by whether they arrive at their destination or not. I'll let you figure out what is wrong with that logic. I'm glad it isn't the cop's job to make that judgement call. They'll write you a ticket either way.
I believe that laws should be there to punish people who do bad things, not to limit your ability to do things that aren't bad.
The speed limit is there to keep those whose self assesment of the own skills is over-inflated from doing bad things to themselves and others.
"Speeding" at 10mph over is fine with me. Excessive speed (because you are "responsible") is bad. Period.
It was the loss of control that causded the accident.
Therefore it was the speed that caused the accident.
It is much easier to lose control of a car at high speed. If you don't believe me you haven't driven enough. I think that in most cases most drivers are safe at about 10 mph above the posted limit. If you are constantly getting speeding tickets you are frequently going faster than 10 mph above the posted limit.
The cop (and the law) can't distinguish between who can handle 80 mph down a country road and who can't. That is why there are speed limits that apply equally to everyone. You might think you are a better driver than most. You might think that you are "safe" at 80, 90, 100 mph. The cop doesn't have to determine if you are capable of it or not, just if you are breaking the law, so he is going to pull you over and give you a ticket. Good! You deserve it.
Do you drive? Your arguement is absurd. Not only does speed make an accident worse, it also makes it more likely. Unexpected events come at you more quickly, you are less likely to be able to stop quickly, and poor handling due to bad roads is amplified. I am not saying that the speed limit should be 20 mph. Is there a speed that you think is unsafe? 100 mph? 120 mph? 150 mph? Or is it all about the mad 5k1lz of the driver in your mind?
The North Koreans have enough conventional firepower aimed at Seoul to reduce it to rubble in a few minutes without the use of a nuclear weapon, and I would guess that they have a few of those aimed at Seoul as well. I wouldn't be shocked if they have an atomic bomb already sitting in Seoul waiting to be set off.
To top it off, their leaders are nuts and would probably love to go down in flames.
That is why we basically leave them alone. A war of the Korean Peninsula would be devastating in the first five minutes alone.
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What they need is a show loaded against Mormons. Have a "Potent Potables" category in each of the first two rounds, then add a Kama Sutra category, an illicit drug category, and a category about tattoos.
Perhaps this will lead to a series of super-champions, who only lose to other super-champions. The the tournament of champions would be a duel of clicking in the instant Alex began to speak, hoping that you know the answer.
There is a guy in Colorado that plays game shows professionally. He has been on Jeopardy more than once and has been on Millionaire before.
Imagine if instead of pirating MS products people instead used less expensive alternatives or even Free Software. The Microsoft would be much less of a standard and businesses wouldn't feel as compelled to use it. The current situation is a de facto two-tier pricing scheme (the tiers being expensive and free), in which the people with deep pockets who are possible BSA audit targets pay big bucks for software, while the monopoly is actually reinforced by piracy on the low end that might have considered using another product were it not for piracy. Thus the evil that is the .doc format is a standard in practice and everyone feels pressure to own Word because of it, leading to more profits for Microsoft.
Using the word "lost" is an abuse of the language. There is revenue that has not been realized, but quatifying how much would have been realized without piracy is difficult.
Yeah, that wasn't out yet when I got mine. Also, I wish that mine was USB 2.0 as well, but the write speed wouldn't be that much greater since flash write speeds are the bottleneck.
I have a NexII as well and I used it all the time. The I recently bought a 512MB flash player that doubles as a usb drive. It was only $150 and can run for a long time on a single AAA battery. I don't know how long exactly since I haven't tried timing it, but it lasts through two five hours listening sessions on long flights with juice to spare. It is smaller and lighter than the NexII. The only downside is the lack of a screen, but I don't use a screen while jogging anyhow.
I code in fixed width fonts as well, but I don't post to /. using them unless I am posting code. I think that people the tt tag to make their otherwise unremarkable posts stand out from the crowd visually by making it harder to read.
Why is it that when we have tech like proportionally spaced fonts some people refuse to use it, even after it has been around for years?
What is the harm in attacking the problems on multiple fronts? You could give someone a fish and teach them to fish at the same time. HP is certainly more qualified to help in the way that it is helping than in AIDS education. We have Bill Gates for that.
As another poster has alluded to, it is impossible to drive from Cape Town to Cairo while in the USA. In fact, this can only be done in Africa.
I drove from Salt Lake City to Boston two years ago and never found myself wanting for cellular service and didn't pay any roaming charges. Most cell companies in the USA offer plans that allow you to use your minutes nearly anywhere in the country to call any other location in the country without paying for roaming. The first time I have paid for roaming in over a year was when I called home from Toronto yesterday.
Please note that none of this important to the discussion of computers in Africa, but your characterization of cell phone service in the USA is inaccurate.
As long as we're off topic, did you know that the federally mandated drinking drinking age of 21 was signed into law by Ronald Reagan in the 1980's, rather than during prohibition as you seem to think it was?
Well that took longer than I thought it would...
What you said was poor grammar. I was trying to help. Now please, continue your ranting.
can't detect sarcasm too You should probably substitute the word "either" for the word "too" in that sentence.
Yes I read what he said. My point is that you do have some control of the heat, and that is where he is wrong. Given that he doesn't understand that I would guess that he isn't an expert on designing the small, trendsetting cases that Apple comes out with for the iMac.
Not true! Voltage and clockspeed both influence hot hot a processor runs. Many people that want to run fanless for noise reasons will buy a fast processor and underclock it so that it will run cool.
Another clever way of combatting heat is to be able to change speed on the fly, so that you match the current processing load. If you are editing code the processor can run slow and then when you compile it cranks up to full speed. This way you don't have a performance penalty but you aren't generating lots of heat the entire time.
It's really not a hot processor, so anyone who knows the basics of cooling a computer can handle it.
You seem to be oversimplifying the problem of cooling a G5 in the space of an iMac. Maybe once you've mailed in your solution you can tell them how to get one (or two!) into a Powerbook as well.
You said it!
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You're welcome.
If you think excessive speeding isn't a safety problem for yourself and others you're the one that doesn't understand responsibility.
I didn't say it was legal. It is illegal because of the recent law that says that taking a camcorder into a theater is illegal. It isn't clear to me that infringement has taken place by simply recording something, but recording it is the first step to viewing it again or making copies. So is it infringement if you have your camcorder in the theater and record the first 3 minutes of the movie?
Actually it isn't a proprietary lock-in. The file format is standard and Apple didn't even come up with it. Files that you have ripped yourself and are DRM free would still be unplayable. The DRM does limit the flexibility though.
What does that even mean? How do you take responsibility for your actions if you kill someone? There are situations in which you can't take full responsibility for you actions after they've occured. At least you can't make any sort of financial restitution. In any case, if that is your attitude, then you should look having to pay tickets as a simple consequence of your actions, for which the speeder must take responsibility. They know what the law is and are responsible.
If the driver can always keep control of the vehicle under the conditions, the vehicle can handle the speed well, the driver is RESPONSIBLE (such as knowing the braking distance for your car at a given speed, if you are going very fast -- but that is part of keeping control), then no. It's all about personal responsibility... My phrase of the day.
Ok, so in your opinion there is no speed that is inherently unsafe. I guess c is the only real limit in your world. While I agree with you about the tailgating at 25 being more dangerous than speeding in some situations your premise is untenable. In fact this discussion becoming absurd. In your other response you state that cops can tell "by the results" if someone is capable of driving at a certain speed by whether they arrive at their destination or not. I'll let you figure out what is wrong with that logic. I'm glad it isn't the cop's job to make that judgement call. They'll write you a ticket either way.
I believe that laws should be there to punish people who do bad things, not to limit your ability to do things that aren't bad.
The speed limit is there to keep those whose self assesment of the own skills is over-inflated from doing bad things to themselves and others. "Speeding" at 10mph over is fine with me. Excessive speed (because you are "responsible") is bad. Period.
You can burn your songs from iTunes to a CD and then re-encode to MP3. So they will sound somewhat worse and it is a waste of time for you.
Says the Dell website. It plays MP3s and WMA files. So the files you get from iTunes won't play.
if you purchased it at the iTunes music store.
It was the loss of control that causded the accident.
Therefore it was the speed that caused the accident.
It is much easier to lose control of a car at high speed. If you don't believe me you haven't driven enough. I think that in most cases most drivers are safe at about 10 mph above the posted limit. If you are constantly getting speeding tickets you are frequently going faster than 10 mph above the posted limit.
The cop (and the law) can't distinguish between who can handle 80 mph down a country road and who can't. That is why there are speed limits that apply equally to everyone. You might think you are a better driver than most. You might think that you are "safe" at 80, 90, 100 mph. The cop doesn't have to determine if you are capable of it or not, just if you are breaking the law, so he is going to pull you over and give you a ticket. Good! You deserve it.
Do you drive? Your arguement is absurd. Not only does speed make an accident worse, it also makes it more likely. Unexpected events come at you more quickly, you are less likely to be able to stop quickly, and poor handling due to bad roads is amplified. I am not saying that the speed limit should be 20 mph. Is there a speed that you think is unsafe? 100 mph? 120 mph? 150 mph? Or is it all about the mad 5k1lz of the driver in your mind?
To top it off, their leaders are nuts and would probably love to go down in flames.
That is why we basically leave them alone. A war of the Korean Peninsula would be devastating in the first five minutes alone.