There's a prime reason to NOT use Paytrust. I refuse to purchase or use anything associated with Intuit to the best of my ability, including tax software. They've shown consistent total disregard for customers' concerns for far too long for me to continue to patronize them.
Perhaps so. But as more DX10 titles get released, people will begin to migrate just for that. I have a lovely 8800GTS card that does DX10 which I am under utilizing because I choose not to go to Vista, mostly because I have only a couple of DX10 titles. I do have MS FSX, which does have DX10 support in XP with the SP2 patch...
Microsoft has stated they will cease selling Windows XP as of June 30, 2008. When you can't buy new copies anymore, it's essentially dead, even if those of us who have it still use it for a while yet. Kind of like a chicken after you cut its head off.
Yeah, that'll be why so many Steam gamers have FX5200 cards, 40% of them use AGP systems, and most of them run their monitors at 60Hz.
I'll agree with the first two, but not the last. Running your monitor at 60Hz is perfectly fine for anyone using a flat panel, which is the current trend. My take on this was that it indicated a lot of folks using new(er) monitors rather than older CRT technology.
Heck, if it was made to the same size and form factor as a vacuum tube, it would be more readily acceptable, since vacuum tubes have been with us for a long time. Think about it- The filament in a vacuum tube gets way, way hotter and nobody complains about that, because it's insulated by the vacuum inside.
Have you ever seen/felt vaccuum tubes in operation? You can very easily burn yourself on them. I remember old tube type televisions, and the red glow inside from the hot tubes. I've heard of people burning fingers trying to remove tubes still hot from use, though I was smart enough to never have done that myself.
In their latest work, the researchers incorporated the catalyst structure within a ceramic housing, which enabled the steam reforming of propane at operating temperatures up to 1,000 degrees Celsius. Using the new ceramic housing, the researchers also demonstrated the successful decomposition of ammonia at temperatures up to 1,000 degrees Celsius. High-temperature operation is essential for peak performance in microreactors, said Kenis, who also is a researcher at the university's Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. When reforming hydrocarbons such as propane, temperatures above 800 degrees Celsius prevent the formation of soot that can foul the catalyst surface and reduce performance.
1000 degrees Celcius? Makes a Dell exploding battery look positively chilly! How are they going to remove that heat from the laptop, assuming this is where they're headed?
Ever notice that most switches group their ports in 4 or 6 to a group? What I do in these cases is bundle my patch cables in that same number between the panel and switch. makes it much easier to trace one when you can locate the small bundle, then isolate the specific cable. I usually just used the same twist ties that the patch cables came packaged in, but you could also use velcro. I was just being frugal. In most cases, I tied the bundles together in at least 3 points along the length of the bundle, assuming they're all going to the same panel and switch. Kept the bundles neat. I typically routed the small bundles using cable management panels on the racks that came equipped for it (all of them, after I started specifying).
It's not photo-pretty, but it is practical, very easy to modify at need. Some of those photo racks I'd be afraid to mess with for fear of having to try to return it to that state!
All of my home lighting is LED using the luxeon 3 and 5 watt models. I use about 1/20th the energy that I used when I was using CFs. Granted, I had to build nearly all the fixtures and powersupplies myself, but the 5 watt units only cost about 7 $US and put out light equal to an 80 watt tungsten. They cost far less and use way less energy that CFs, I don't know why they haven't caught on.
You just answered your own question. When they're a simple screw-in replacement, they'll catch on. I've been waiting for the price and ease of use to come down, myself.
"It was certainly not a hit to the vehicle, I want to make that perfectly clear," said NASA launch director Michael Leinbach of the strike. "But you can get an induced voltage field around the lightning strike, and that's what we're looking at now."
After reviewing data from the lighting strike, engineers detected a small spike in the voltage readings from one of the three electrical buses that supply power to certain systems aboard Atlantis, Cain said. The spike - in a unit known as Essential Bus 1 BC - spanned just 80 milliseconds, but was enough to begin checks to ensure none of the shuttle's systems were compromised during the lightning strike.
They're also (IMHO) much, much better tasting than any type of diet soda I've tried (pesonally I find water much better than a diet soda. I've never found one that didn't have an awful after-taste).
That's really a personal, subjective, observation. I've been drinking diet soda for many years now, and I find sugared soda to be thick, syrupy and far too sweet. Again, a subjective observation.
Based on purely anecdotal evidence from people I've spoken with on both sides of the sugar/diet soda debate, it appears to me that diet sodas are an acquired taste, but that, once acquired, one from which the person in question will rarely retreat. Most of the people with whom I have discussed this like the low calorie aspect of the diet soda, which is even lower than the 10-15 calories you cite for Minute Maid or Tropicana. However, some I talked with claim that even diet sodas are conducive to weight gain, and that water was the healthiest beverage. While I certainly agree that clean water is very healthy, it is also rather on the bland side for taste.:-) I used to have an opinion similar to you, that diet sodas all had an aftertaste and were not sweet enough. But I must admit, that was back in the time when most diet sodas used saccharine for sweetener. Once aspartame became the common sweetener, the flavor improved substantially to where I could 'tolerate' the difference. After a short time (a month or two) drinking exclusively diet soda, I found I was unwilling to return to sugared sodas as I then found them oversweet and syrupy.
You are, of course, entitled to your own opinion. All I was stating was that Crystal Light in individual servings in pre-bottled water is a rather expensive way to consume liquid refreshment. I sometimes use Crystal Light in larger sizes, but I also own and use a water distiller which produces clean, distilled water for about $.25/gal, making the cost acceptably low.
I actually like Crystal Light Orange drink and lemon drink. They are fairly sweet tasting, but the sugar intake isn't so bad. They also come in neat single services that you can put in bottled water.
Look at the costs for this. Assuming you buy the little individual bottles of water, then buy the Crystal Light, you're spending considerably more than you would for sodas, with no more of a health benefit (or lack of harm at any rate).
Of course, that cost comes down somewhat if you refill the little bottles from a cheap source. And, having said all that, Crystal Light does have a nice assortment of flavors...
Soldiers are trained for a LONG time to do their job, and then closely supervised. No one enlists then gets sent to the front the next day.
Having spent almost 6 years on active duty, I can tell you that many soldiers/sailors are NOT trained for a long time, relatively speaking. Boot camp isn't all that long (differs by branch of service, but 11-14 weeks or so). Many soldiers/sailors will then get some advanced training (length of time varies widely by job skills), but that focuses on job skills which may or may not deal with weapons. So you're right, someone does not enlist and get sent right to the front (anymore, this was different in the past (pre-WWI and possibly earlier)). But you overestimate IMO how much time and training is received in between the two. As far as closely supervised, you apparently don't recall one of our own who lobbed grenades at his own unit's personnel early in the current Iraq deployments. It can happen.
And you should be able to drink when 18, either you're an adult and responsible for yourself or you're not. There is no other argument necessary.
Now this I can agree with. But that just shows, it all boils down to holding people personally accountable and responsible for their actions, which is part of the Libertarian core values that started much of this whole thread.
Always the "the US is different" argument. Sorry, I believe you are wrong. If European countries can implement gun control effectively, then so can US states.
Ah, but the US *is* different! Starting from day 1, we're different. Different laws, different history. The people of the US broke away from the old world to start their own way, not to continue the old ways. True, we did bring along some of the better things... Europeans are used to being governed from above, historically in terms of monarchies, etc. People in the US are used to a government of the people, by the people.
Bottom line is, it wouldn't work in the US because the people will not LET it happen. We value our freedoms, including that pesky right to bear arms. Just because the people in europe (I almost said sheep) are willing to have themselves disarmed doesn't mean that we in the US are. You can believe I am wrong all day long, that still doesn't make you right.
So where do you draw the line? Don't convicted murderers who have pleaded guilty, turned in their buddies, and got out in 5 years based on good behavior have a right to defend themselves and others? What about mental patients? And why should children be discriminated against by denying them state of the art assault weapons?
Line? Convicted murderers have forfeited their right by being convicted of murder. Mental patients? I'm not a shrink and don't feel qualified to make a pronouncement on this one. Children? Same reason we deny them the driver's license, the vote and alcohol. When they reach the age which society deems most people have formulated appropriate morals and ethics to control their own actions, then they get all of those things.
Which brings up another thing. Why wait for 16 for a driver's license (in the USA)? If the child exhibits good judgement and ability to operate a vehicle safely prior to that, why not license them? On the flip side, if someone exhibits poor judgement, why should they be allowed a license? And alcohol? We can volunteer for military service, get shot and killed (and/or shoot at and kill other people) for our country (or even for some trumped up invasion of someplace half a world away, to defend our country) at age 18 (again, in USA), but we apparently can't be trusted to use alcohol appropriately until we're 21? Hm.
Much of our current law on these kinds of things has been developed over time based on observation and experience. I'm sure when cars first became available, there were no laws about driver's licenses, you just drove. And very young people used to be able to get into military service, whether they lied about their age, or that particular military establishment had no rules regarding age, etc. Over time, we gain experience through living that helps us make sound decisions regarding important things like operating a vehicle safely or consuming alcohol responsibly. So yes, we have some basis for restricting children from activities that are potentially dangerous for them or people around them. We don't have to start the entire legal system from scratch.
Where I live Timmy would have some serious problems getting an assault weapon from his shady friends, because we control access to these weapons tightly. No civilian ever has a right to own one under any circumstances. Ever. It means the police don't need them because their antagonists don't have them, so the only source for assault weapons is the military, which usually manages to keep them locked up. It's not 100%, but it still means that it's hard to get one.
Uh, right. Perhaps some military establishments manage to keep fairly close tabs on their inventories, but what about all those weapons that folks in the middle east and elsewhere seem to have no trouble acquiring? See, all you do with this 'plan' is open up the black markets for such items. Just because these weapons are tightly regulated doesn't mean no one will be able to get them. All it means, like any other gun control plan, is that the outlaws will be armed and the general population will not. If such a plan were workable, then there would be no terrorism, since those terrorists wouldn't be able to get their explosives and assault weapons.
And I still get irritated whenever someone registers my name on an IRC network, or on a free email server, or whatever.
What? With six billion people on this planet, you expect to have a unique identifier made up of two common english words on every one of many separate systems? Isn't that a bit irrational? Now, if your name was 7dkd773MNJ66678 that might be something one could expect...
Now, having asked that, I'll admit I recognize the feeling. I've used a very few nicks over the years since the late 80's BBS days, and it's always been difficult for me to switch when someone else has beaten me to the punch. But realistically, there is no way I can reasonably expect to get the same identifier on a wide variety of different systems, all of which need to uniquely identify users. Complaining about it has usually proven fruitless, and only once has a rational discussion with the other party involved been able to resolve the conflict to everyone's satisfaction.
Daniel, sometimes known as Dragon, Lazarus or Jubal (Yeah, I like Heinlein, so sue me.)
Won't happen. IBM doesn't own all of the IP in OS/2. Recall that there is better Win3.1 support in OS/2 than in Win3.1 itself, all based on Microsoft-owned code. There are other things, but that's the easiest example that springs to mind.
Does anyone else find it funny that the President of Free-Fi cited in the cover blurb is none other than Larry (Lawrence) Laffer, star of the Leisure Suit Larry game series? Still lame after all these years...
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Except that your original $10,000 is now worth considerably less due to inflation over the years. So yes, you did lose money.
They were bought out by Intuit.
There's a prime reason to NOT use Paytrust. I refuse to purchase or use anything associated with Intuit to the best of my ability, including tax software. They've shown consistent total disregard for customers' concerns for far too long for me to continue to patronize them.
Perhaps so. But as more DX10 titles get released, people will begin to migrate just for that. I have a lovely 8800GTS card that does DX10 which I am under utilizing because I choose not to go to Vista, mostly because I have only a couple of DX10 titles. I do have MS FSX, which does have DX10 support in XP with the SP2 patch...
Not everyone out here has pirated Windows XP.
Microsoft has stated they will cease selling Windows XP as of June 30, 2008. When you can't buy new copies anymore, it's essentially dead, even if those of us who have it still use it for a while yet. Kind of like a chicken after you cut its head off.
I'll agree with the first two, but not the last. Running your monitor at 60Hz is perfectly fine for anyone using a flat panel, which is the current trend. My take on this was that it indicated a lot of folks using new(er) monitors rather than older CRT technology.
- Contextual advertising: highest paying advertiser most probably have a really successfull business and has to be atleast to some degree reputable.
By your reasoning, Microsoft (a very successful business by all accounts) is to some degree reputable. Wanna try again?
Heck, if it was made to the same size and form factor as a vacuum tube, it would be more readily acceptable, since vacuum tubes have been with us for a long time. Think about it- The filament in a vacuum tube gets way, way hotter and nobody complains about that, because it's insulated by the vacuum inside.
Have you ever seen/felt vaccuum tubes in operation? You can very easily burn yourself on them. I remember old tube type televisions, and the red glow inside from the hot tubes. I've heard of people burning fingers trying to remove tubes still hot from use, though I was smart enough to never have done that myself.
From the article:
In their latest work, the researchers incorporated the catalyst structure within a ceramic housing, which enabled the steam reforming of propane at operating temperatures up to 1,000 degrees Celsius. Using the new ceramic housing, the researchers also demonstrated the successful decomposition of ammonia at temperatures up to 1,000 degrees Celsius. High-temperature operation is essential for peak performance in microreactors, said Kenis, who also is a researcher at the university's Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. When reforming hydrocarbons such as propane, temperatures above 800 degrees Celsius prevent the formation of soot that can foul the catalyst surface and reduce performance.
1000 degrees Celcius? Makes a Dell exploding battery look positively chilly! How are they going to remove that heat from the laptop, assuming this is where they're headed?
if you get that many colors of cable it's even easier, 5 colors and five to a bundle mean you just need to trace the bundle
That's a good idea, however we had already color coded by function, so it would not have worked in my case.
Ever notice that most switches group their ports in 4 or 6 to a group? What I do in these cases is bundle my patch cables in that same number between the panel and switch. makes it much easier to trace one when you can locate the small bundle, then isolate the specific cable. I usually just used the same twist ties that the patch cables came packaged in, but you could also use velcro. I was just being frugal. In most cases, I tied the bundles together in at least 3 points along the length of the bundle, assuming they're all going to the same panel and switch. Kept the bundles neat. I typically routed the small bundles using cable management panels on the racks that came equipped for it (all of them, after I started specifying).
It's not photo-pretty, but it is practical, very easy to modify at need. Some of those photo racks I'd be afraid to mess with for fear of having to try to return it to that state!
The cost of graphics cards! Cripes, you can spend more on a graphics card than on the rest of your machine put together these days...
You just answered your own question. When they're a simple screw-in replacement, they'll catch on. I've been waiting for the price and ease of use to come down, myself.
"It was certainly not a hit to the vehicle, I want to make that perfectly clear," said NASA launch director Michael Leinbach of the strike. "But you can get an induced voltage field around the lightning strike, and that's what we're looking at now."
After reviewing data from the lighting strike, engineers detected a small spike in the voltage readings from one of the three electrical buses that supply power to certain systems aboard Atlantis, Cain said. The spike - in a unit known as Essential Bus 1 BC - spanned just 80 milliseconds, but was enough to begin checks to ensure none of the shuttle's systems were compromised during the lightning strike.
That's really a personal, subjective, observation. I've been drinking diet soda for many years now, and I find sugared soda to be thick, syrupy and far too sweet. Again, a subjective observation.
Based on purely anecdotal evidence from people I've spoken with on both sides of the sugar/diet soda debate, it appears to me that diet sodas are an acquired taste, but that, once acquired, one from which the person in question will rarely retreat. Most of the people with whom I have discussed this like the low calorie aspect of the diet soda, which is even lower than the 10-15 calories you cite for Minute Maid or Tropicana. However, some I talked with claim that even diet sodas are conducive to weight gain, and that water was the healthiest beverage. While I certainly agree that clean water is very healthy, it is also rather on the bland side for taste. :-) I used to have an opinion similar to you, that diet sodas all had an aftertaste and were not sweet enough. But I must admit, that was back in the time when most diet sodas used saccharine for sweetener. Once aspartame became the common sweetener, the flavor improved substantially to where I could 'tolerate' the difference. After a short time (a month or two) drinking exclusively diet soda, I found I was unwilling to return to sugared sodas as I then found them oversweet and syrupy.
You are, of course, entitled to your own opinion. All I was stating was that Crystal Light in individual servings in pre-bottled water is a rather expensive way to consume liquid refreshment. I sometimes use Crystal Light in larger sizes, but I also own and use a water distiller which produces clean, distilled water for about $.25/gal, making the cost acceptably low.
Look at the costs for this. Assuming you buy the little individual bottles of water, then buy the Crystal Light, you're spending considerably more than you would for sodas, with no more of a health benefit (or lack of harm at any rate).
Of course, that cost comes down somewhat if you refill the little bottles from a cheap source. And, having said all that, Crystal Light does have a nice assortment of flavors...
Having spent almost 6 years on active duty, I can tell you that many soldiers/sailors are NOT trained for a long time, relatively speaking. Boot camp isn't all that long (differs by branch of service, but 11-14 weeks or so). Many soldiers/sailors will then get some advanced training (length of time varies widely by job skills), but that focuses on job skills which may or may not deal with weapons. So you're right, someone does not enlist and get sent right to the front (anymore, this was different in the past (pre-WWI and possibly earlier)). But you overestimate IMO how much time and training is received in between the two. As far as closely supervised, you apparently don't recall one of our own who lobbed grenades at his own unit's personnel early in the current Iraq deployments. It can happen.
And you should be able to drink when 18, either you're an adult and responsible for yourself or you're not. There is no other argument necessary.
Now this I can agree with. But that just shows, it all boils down to holding people personally accountable and responsible for their actions, which is part of the Libertarian core values that started much of this whole thread.
Ah, but the US *is* different! Starting from day 1, we're different. Different laws, different history. The people of the US broke away from the old world to start their own way, not to continue the old ways. True, we did bring along some of the better things... Europeans are used to being governed from above, historically in terms of monarchies, etc. People in the US are used to a government of the people, by the people.
Bottom line is, it wouldn't work in the US because the people will not LET it happen. We value our freedoms, including that pesky right to bear arms. Just because the people in europe (I almost said sheep) are willing to have themselves disarmed doesn't mean that we in the US are. You can believe I am wrong all day long, that still doesn't make you right.
Line? Convicted murderers have forfeited their right by being convicted of murder. Mental patients? I'm not a shrink and don't feel qualified to make a pronouncement on this one. Children? Same reason we deny them the driver's license, the vote and alcohol. When they reach the age which society deems most people have formulated appropriate morals and ethics to control their own actions, then they get all of those things.
Which brings up another thing. Why wait for 16 for a driver's license (in the USA)? If the child exhibits good judgement and ability to operate a vehicle safely prior to that, why not license them? On the flip side, if someone exhibits poor judgement, why should they be allowed a license? And alcohol? We can volunteer for military service, get shot and killed (and/or shoot at and kill other people) for our country (or even for some trumped up invasion of someplace half a world away, to defend our country) at age 18 (again, in USA), but we apparently can't be trusted to use alcohol appropriately until we're 21? Hm.
Much of our current law on these kinds of things has been developed over time based on observation and experience. I'm sure when cars first became available, there were no laws about driver's licenses, you just drove. And very young people used to be able to get into military service, whether they lied about their age, or that particular military establishment had no rules regarding age, etc. Over time, we gain experience through living that helps us make sound decisions regarding important things like operating a vehicle safely or consuming alcohol responsibly. So yes, we have some basis for restricting children from activities that are potentially dangerous for them or people around them. We don't have to start the entire legal system from scratch.
Uh, right. Perhaps some military establishments manage to keep fairly close tabs on their inventories, but what about all those weapons that folks in the middle east and elsewhere seem to have no trouble acquiring? See, all you do with this 'plan' is open up the black markets for such items. Just because these weapons are tightly regulated doesn't mean no one will be able to get them. All it means, like any other gun control plan, is that the outlaws will be armed and the general population will not. If such a plan were workable, then there would be no terrorism, since those terrorists wouldn't be able to get their explosives and assault weapons.
What? With six billion people on this planet, you expect to have a unique identifier made up of two common english words on every one of many separate systems? Isn't that a bit irrational? Now, if your name was 7dkd773MNJ66678 that might be something one could expect...
Now, having asked that, I'll admit I recognize the feeling. I've used a very few nicks over the years since the late 80's BBS days, and it's always been difficult for me to switch when someone else has beaten me to the punch. But realistically, there is no way I can reasonably expect to get the same identifier on a wide variety of different systems, all of which need to uniquely identify users. Complaining about it has usually proven fruitless, and only once has a rational discussion with the other party involved been able to resolve the conflict to everyone's satisfaction.
Daniel, sometimes known as Dragon, Lazarus or Jubal (Yeah, I like Heinlein, so sue me.)
"(most flash ads still manage to run my CPU usage up to "99%" on Windows XP)."
Well, of course. They wouldn't want anything else running to distract you from the advertising, now would they?
Won't happen. IBM doesn't own all of the IP in OS/2. Recall that there is better Win3.1 support in OS/2 than in Win3.1 itself, all based on Microsoft-owned code. There are other things, but that's the easiest example that springs to mind.
Does anyone else find it funny that the President of Free-Fi cited in the cover blurb is none other than Larry (Lawrence) Laffer, star of the Leisure Suit Larry game series? Still lame after all these years...
'Civil Engineer' is an oxymoron...