I think this was already said further up, but to clarify:
The wire act has been ruled by the supreme court as pertaining specifically to *sports betting*, over the phone.
The company executives that were arrested were working for companies that took sports bets over the phone (US numbers, advertised to US customers). Nobody providing or playing online casino games has been arrested.
I call bullshit. In a "severe accident", the airbag will deploy anyway, which blows your hands off of the steering wheel. The seatbelt (and helmet) laws aren't about control in an accident, they're about injury prevention, so the state doesn't have to pay your medical bills.
...you also have to trust ALOT of anonymous players. At any given table, any number of players can be communicating their hands to each other, tilting the pot and the stakes heavily in their favor.
That's why I mostly play multi-table tournaments. Players are assigned randomly to tens (sometimes hundreds) of tables. There's no way a colluding group can be big enough to have more than one or two players per table.
7.6 miles at 12.5 MPH would take ~37 minutes. Are you suggesting they spent 4 times as much time lunching, resting, pissing, and falling over as they did riding?
Perhaps it took the extra time to change out those extra 6 batteries.
And another thing, what would they possibly need rest from? All that strenuous leaning forward?
Well, in the article, the guy says "It's like doing a boogie dance the whole time. You're using your muscles all the time."
If I was really paranoid, I'd stick my monitors in a Faraday cage to prevent the video signal from being broadcast... everybody is sending *that* out (where everybody = really close to 100% of all computers).
Not nearly 100%. The emitted signal is from the electron beam scanning. LCDs don't emit the same signal, because they don't refresh.
Now, if someone has a camera trained on your screen, that's another story...
Filtering your own e-mail has absolutely no effect on the spammer... By the time you filter they have already wasted your bandidth, and perhaps mailbox capacity and even forwarding limits from a forwarding service. Your filtering is useless, puny human!
Sure, my filter (based on Paul's) may not effect the spammer, and may still waste some of my resources, but spam now wastes so much less of my precious time, that it is well worth it!
You can focus on saving the world. I'll worry about saving my sanity.
This is not a dirty marketing trick. This is a (admittedly, stupid) counter to Intel's dirty marketing of their bloated speed ratings.
Here is an article on ZDnet discussing the issue. In it, an independent analyst notes that the P4 is 20% less efficient (does 20% less work per clock cycle) than the the P3. This means that MHz comparisons are no longer comparing apples to apples, and therefore meaningless.
As others have said, this obfuscation won't serve AMD in the long run, but they are the "victim" of this marketing war, not the perpetrator. The true victim is Joe consumer, who buys a chip because it has higher MHz, instead of having a metric which actually measures computing power.
It seems unrealistic to me that a microsatellite would be carrying enough fuel to be manueverable enough to actually block the view of another satellite.
Using radiation to "fry" the electronics seems much more plausible, as a burst weapon could be charged from solar collectors.
We have many natural clones running around (identical twins)
I remember reading in Scientific American an article about telomeres, sequences of DNA at the end of chromosomes. (Under certain conditions,) the number of telomeres decreases each time a cell divides. The researchers in the article believe that this contributes to the aging process.
I don't know how many times the stem cells to be used have divided, but it will be interesting to see if cloned children end up with a shorter lifespan than their "parents".
My personal hope is that before our own creations start their own evolutionary path and leave us in the dust (if they decide we're in the way, kiss your carbon-based ass goodbye...) we come up with the technology necessary to transition our OWN evolution into the new one (so that WE are the seeds for the next evolutionary stage).
This is also discussed in Kurweil's book "Age of Spiritual Machines". By using brain scanning technology and/or augmentation of biological intelligence with modules for processing and memory (and even extra-sensory senses, like IR, UV vision, or hearing radio, etc.) we can expand our intelligence enough to keep up with the machines.
This is the main reason I'm focused on earning and saving money: so I can continue to stay in the top 1%, as the intelligence gap continues to widen.
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I think this was already said further up, but to clarify:
The wire act has been ruled by the supreme court as pertaining specifically to *sports betting*, over the phone.
The company executives that were arrested were working for companies that took sports bets over the phone (US numbers, advertised to US customers). Nobody providing or playing online casino games has been arrested.
I call bullshit. In a "severe accident", the airbag will deploy anyway, which blows your hands off of the steering wheel. The seatbelt (and helmet) laws aren't about control in an accident, they're about injury prevention, so the state doesn't have to pay your medical bills.
...you also have to trust ALOT of anonymous players. At any given table, any number of players can be communicating their hands to each other, tilting the pot and the stakes heavily in their favor.
That's why I mostly play multi-table tournaments. Players are assigned randomly to tens (sometimes hundreds) of tables. There's no way a colluding group can be big enough to have more than one or two players per table.
Well, in the article, the guy says "It's like doing a boogie dance the whole time. You're using your muscles all the time."
What was the rest of your post about, again?
Heh. Translating the latin produces the phrase:"...graduating with honors with Honors."
According to my count, that's 7 months, 6 days...
Didn't you just say not to use it every time I shower?!?
Not nearly 100%. The emitted signal is from the electron beam scanning. LCDs don't emit the same signal, because they don't refresh.
Now, if someone has a camera trained on your screen, that's another story...
If they were really malicious we would have seen Nimbda doing things like delete *.doc *.xls...
I already have a cron job that does this on all my computers.
Sure, my filter (based on Paul's) may not effect the spammer, and may still waste some of my resources, but spam now wastes so much less of my precious time, that it is well worth it!
You can focus on saving the world. I'll worry about saving my sanity.
99% of the 60s radicals wanted an excuse to do drugs and have sex.
Damn. They needed an excuse?
This is not a dirty marketing trick. This is a (admittedly, stupid) counter to Intel's dirty marketing of their bloated speed ratings.
Here is an article on ZDnet discussing the issue. In it, an independent analyst notes that the P4 is 20% less efficient (does 20% less work per clock cycle) than the the P3. This means that MHz comparisons are no longer comparing apples to apples, and therefore meaningless.
As others have said, this obfuscation won't serve AMD in the long run, but they are the "victim" of this marketing war, not the perpetrator. The true victim is Joe consumer, who buys a chip because it has higher MHz, instead of having a metric which actually measures computing power.
All those itanium satellites
He, he. I knew those latest processors from Intel weren't doing too well, but I hadn't heard that they just gave up and orbited them all.
It seems unrealistic to me that a microsatellite would be carrying enough fuel to be manueverable enough to actually block the view of another satellite.
Using radiation to "fry" the electronics seems much more plausible, as a burst weapon could be charged from solar collectors.
We have many natural clones running around (identical twins)
I remember reading in Scientific American an article about telomeres, sequences of DNA at the end of chromosomes. (Under certain conditions,) the number of telomeres decreases each time a cell divides. The researchers in the article believe that this contributes to the aging process.
I don't know how many times the stem cells to be used have divided, but it will be interesting to see if cloned children end up with a shorter lifespan than their "parents".
My personal hope is that before our own creations start their own evolutionary path and leave us in the dust (if they decide we're in the way, kiss your carbon-based ass goodbye...) we come up with the technology necessary to transition our OWN evolution into the new one (so that WE are the seeds for the next evolutionary stage).
This is also discussed in Kurweil's book "Age of Spiritual Machines". By using brain scanning technology and/or augmentation of biological intelligence with modules for processing and memory (and even extra-sensory senses, like IR, UV vision, or hearing radio, etc.) we can expand our intelligence enough to keep up with the machines.
This is the main reason I'm focused on earning and saving money: so I can continue to stay in the top 1%, as the intelligence gap continues to widen.