Read "Warday" by Whitley Strieber (yes, the same guy who went a bit crazy and insists he's been abducted by aliens) and James Kunetka. It is the story of two journalists travelling across America after a nuclear war. Whitley Strieber's character lived in New York at the time of the war, so the book starts with a flashback description of the immediate aftermath. The city is written off. Later on they both visit the "present day" (several years after the war) New York and describe the decay of the city and the salvage operations working to pull all the raw material out.
Drinking water is good for you. Drink lots of water. When it is hot, humid, and I am outside, I can drink that 64 oz of water within an hour or less. The people who don't drink enough water get taken away in an ambulance.
You are orders of magnitude more likely to experience dehydration than to experience the almost mythical "water intoxication." (Yes, it is possible to kill yourself by drinking too much water, but it happens very very rarely.)
So ignore this article and go have a nice glass of water.
Drinking water is (almost*) always good for the body. When it's hot and I am outside I can drink 2 gallons or more in a day. Not much point to 8 oz. cups then.
Of course soda, coffee, or booze is a different matter...
(* You can actually die from drinking too much water. I wouldn't worry about it though...)
I see Apple making Mac OS XI for x86 but only allowing it to work on special Apple motherboards. Apple won't hype the switch that much. They will instead sell some sort of VMWare-like or dual-boot stuff and market the x86 Macs as being able to run Windows at full speed.
Then someone will hack Mac OS XI to work on any motherboard, or some company will reverse engineer the special Apple motherboards and make their own Mac compatible motherboards, and Apple will call out the lawyers.
Here in the U.S. you will often see kids who constantly show off their expensive Nextel cellular phones, make sure everyone has their phone number, and constantly talk to each other or even worse use the Nextel "Direct Connect" feature which allows them to talk to each other, but LOUDLY and with the addition of constant annoying beeps.
Most of these kids deserve a swift kick in the balls.
I don't know the exact specification of the RioVolt but I would doubt it. A lot of portable players have a little chip that *ONLY* decodes MP3 and can't do anything else, and the other chip they use to drive the LCD, buttons, etc doesn't have the power to decode anything.
It's possible to castrate the nasty parts of Real Player so that it stops taking over all your file associations and popping up "messages". I remember doing it manually, the main thing is deleting this.exe which RealPlayer runs on startup both of your computer and whenever you use RealPlayer, along with removing anything else it runs on your computer's startup and changing some of the RealPlayer settings. Now I can play Real content but otherwise I never notice I have Real on my computer.
Ad-Aware would probably do it for you with more ease.
"The statement: "...is an entirely new chip that has no backwards compatibility with its x86 line of chips.." on the front page is simply not true. "
Bullshit. Itanium is as compatible with x86 as my Athlon is compatible with the processors used in the NES, Nintendo 64, Atari 2600, Game Boy, Sega, and Commodore 64.
Tim
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If your motherboard was designed right, it would notice the overtemperature, react, and shut it down. The real problem is the heatsink falling off- if that happens, your CPU will emit magic smoke faster than the temperature sensor can react.
They weren't operating robotic surgery tools over the link, they just had a specialist doctor in the U.S.A. talk the South Pole doctor through the operation.
One time there was this somewhat heavy snowstorm and I was riding up the hill to my house in a Dodge Caravan minivan.
We passed by at least 5 SUVs of the type that are made and marketed to those who never take it on a rougeher road than their driveway, all stuck helpless in the snow while our fucking MINIVAN was having no problems.
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Read "Warday" by Whitley Strieber (yes, the same guy who went a bit crazy and insists he's been abducted by aliens) and James Kunetka. It is the story of two journalists travelling across America after a nuclear war. Whitley Strieber's character lived in New York at the time of the war, so the book starts with a flashback description of the immediate aftermath. The city is written off. Later on they both visit the "present day" (several years after the war) New York and describe the decay of the city and the salvage operations working to pull all the raw material out.
Tim
Drinking water is good for you. Drink lots of water. When it is hot, humid, and I am outside, I can drink that 64 oz of water within an hour or less. The people who don't drink enough water get taken away in an ambulance.
You are orders of magnitude more likely to experience dehydration than to experience the almost mythical "water intoxication." (Yes, it is possible to kill yourself by drinking too much water, but it happens very very rarely.)
So ignore this article and go have a nice glass of water.
Tim
You get all commercial airflight to cease next month, and I'll be sure to write down the temperatures.
Tim
Drinking water is (almost*) always good for the body. When it's hot and I am outside I can drink 2 gallons or more in a day. Not much point to 8 oz. cups then.
Of course soda, coffee, or booze is a different matter...
(* You can actually die from drinking too much water. I wouldn't worry about it though...)
Tim
It probably only took 10 episodes for him to do it too. Fuck, but that show sucks hard.
The games use the sprites from Doom 2.
Tim
Unfortunately, to play almost all of the games you have to own/warez a copy of Doom 2.
Too bad, some of them looked like they'd be fun to waste away a few hours.
Tim
I see Apple making Mac OS XI for x86 but only allowing it to work on special Apple motherboards. Apple won't hype the switch that much. They will instead sell some sort of VMWare-like or dual-boot stuff and market the x86 Macs as being able to run Windows at full speed.
Then someone will hack Mac OS XI to work on any motherboard, or some company will reverse engineer the special Apple motherboards and make their own Mac compatible motherboards, and Apple will call out the lawyers.
Tim
I work at a haunted house around Halloween. Even we don't employ anyone that ugly.
Tim
Here in the U.S. you will often see kids who constantly show off their expensive Nextel cellular phones, make sure everyone has their phone number, and constantly talk to each other or even worse use the Nextel "Direct Connect" feature which allows them to talk to each other, but LOUDLY and with the addition of constant annoying beeps.
Most of these kids deserve a swift kick in the balls.
Tim
I've made bootable CD-ROMS with NERO without having any sort of floppy drive image or anything.
Tim
I propose we build a rocket and shoot you into the sun to compensate for the change in orbit.
Tim
I don't know the exact specification of the RioVolt but I would doubt it. A lot of portable players have a little chip that *ONLY* decodes MP3 and can't do anything else, and the other chip they use to drive the LCD, buttons, etc doesn't have the power to decode anything.
Tim
It's possible to castrate the nasty parts of Real Player so that it stops taking over all your file associations and popping up "messages". I remember doing it manually, the main thing is deleting this .exe which RealPlayer runs on startup both of your computer and whenever you use RealPlayer, along with removing anything else it runs on your computer's startup and changing some of the RealPlayer settings. Now I can play Real content but otherwise I never notice I have Real on my computer.
Ad-Aware would probably do it for you with more ease.
Tim
"The statement: "...is an entirely new chip that has no backwards compatibility with its x86 line of chips.." on the front page is simply not true.
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Bullshit. Itanium is as compatible with x86 as my Athlon is compatible with the processors used in the NES, Nintendo 64, Atari 2600, Game Boy, Sega, and Commodore 64.
Tim
If your motherboard was designed right, it would notice the overtemperature, react, and shut it down. The real problem is the heatsink falling off- if that happens, your CPU will emit magic smoke faster than the temperature sensor can react.
Tim
They weren't operating robotic surgery tools over the link, they just had a specialist doctor in the U.S.A. talk the South Pole doctor through the operation.
Tim
telnet mailserver.example.com 110
+OK InterMail POP3 server ready.
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+OK please send PASS command
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+OK exampleuser is welcome here
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I send you this message in order to have your advice.
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+OK exampleuser InterMail POP3 server signing off.
Tim
The Laziest Men on Mars? :P
Tim
Individuality is modding, painting, or putting stickers on your case.
Apple's "non-conformity" is just a marketing gimmick which to a great extent actually capitalized on conformity.
Tim
hey - if you're such a goddamn lardass that you need to sit in TWO seats, you pay for TWO seats.
Tim
You just buy the really BIG spool of Cat5...
They have submarine cables just like any other island, and I think a satellite connection for emergency backup.
Tim
Actually, population tapers off much more in countries where everyone is fed.
In countries where people are starving, the population growth is enormous.
Tim
One time there was this somewhat heavy snowstorm and I was riding up the hill to my house in a Dodge Caravan minivan.
We passed by at least 5 SUVs of the type that are made and marketed to those who never take it on a rougeher road than their driveway, all stuck helpless in the snow while our fucking MINIVAN was having no problems.
Tim
The liberal greenie Night Elves can't use Goblin Shredders, it goes against their "Principles."
However, when the shit hits the fan, they have no qualms about knocking down huge areas of trees just to summon a few temporary weak fighting units.
Tim