I'm fine with the idea that everyone should pay for the roads, and those who use them more should pay more, but that is because every time you drive, you damage the road somewhat.
Not really true. Light vehicles genreally do not damage paved roads at all - the forces they exert on the concrete/asphault are normally well below the threshold that would actually "damage" the road. It is basically only heavy vehicles (buses, trucks, garbage trucks, etc.) that cause significant wear and tear. Not entirely true, but generally so. The vast majority of wear on a road in, say, a suburban neighborhood is due to natural weathering, not traffic - expansion/contraction, water, etc. The trouble is, even if small cars don't cause much (or any) wear and tear, they do require a certain traffic capacity. The more you drive, the more road capacity you use - if everyone drove 2000 miles a month, either we would have constant gridlock or we would need much larger roads (more lanes, more capacity). Even if a car doesn't directly cause wear and tear on a road, each car does require a certain amount of capacity - and hte more capacity a road has (more lanes, higher speed limit, etc.) the more it costs to build and maintain. The point is, even though a super-light hybrid (or whatever) might cause significantly less wear and tear than a SUV, it basically requires the same amount of traffic capacity - and by and large, incurs more or less the same costs in road maintenance and construction. I'm all for giving fuel-efficient cars a tax break, but we should recognize that that is what we are doing - don't try to pretend a hybrid car represents a major difference in road system cost compared to an SUV (well, a light SUV anyway - get up over 5000 or 6000 pounds and the vehicles start contributing significantly to wear and tear).
New ridges nearly a mile high?!? Well, that certainly explains the little wave it made...
Depends on your definition of "new"; these ridges have probably been developing for many many thousands (the collision has been ongoing for several million years at least) of years. There was nowhere near 1500m of displacement during this earthquake; more like 10-20m tops (and that is a hell of a lot). Many such events over the last few million years (or even few hundred thousand) are probably responsible. Still pretty amazing though.
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I ran a search for an article I read a couple days ago (or maybe yesterday).
Search term: anandtech dell 1905
I was looking for an article on Anandtech about the new Dell 1905fp(?) LCD monitor
Result from Google (331 results,.16 sec): The article I am looking for is the very first result.
Result from MSN search (196 results,.15 sec): The first return is for tiwlux.com???? The article I am looking for does not even appear in the top 50 results.
Uh, wait. I tried it again. I tried the search three times; once last night, once about ten minutes ago, and once about two minutes ago. This last time the article I'm looking for has appeared at #3 on the results list - though the first result is for a toshiba laptop (model 1905) reviewed on Anandtech.
"The MPAA have released their Parent File Scan tool, which 'helps consumers check whether their computers have peer-to-peer software and potentially infringing copies of motion pictures and other copyrighted material'.
Looks to me like the MPAA just ran across this POS software and linked to it - they seem to do their best to disassociate themselves from anything the software might do - hell, they have a "Terms and Conditions" page when you try and follow the link to the dtecnet website.
That is what the internet is for, so you can learn from the constructive criticism of your fellow gamers in well-thought-out critiques of your talents and weaknesses. That has been my experience, anyway. I swear!
Maybe now the hardware is finally able to support the game. The wait is over.
Don't be too hasty. I hear they used an advanced compression algorithm in order to minimize the space the final game will take up. Unfortunately, the decompressor for their "Zero-Space" compression system is only now entering the earliest stages of development.
Note: The above statement, like the article, has little or no foundation in reality.
Probably like many of the people in this crowd, I couldn't even recall what the adword links looked like on Google - I'm always hearing about them, but I never really even look at them when I do a search. It took me a couple tries to come up with a search that even had adwords, but the result was sort of funny -
News results for hard drives - View today's top stories
Leggy brunette drives home hard lesson - Toronto Star - Jan 22, 2005
Not one of the adwords, but I found it funny. The top result (well, sort of) had nothing whatsoever to do with what I was looking for (Western Digital and Seagate were the top two "real" results, with a couple of retailers being the top sponsored links, if you care - or are too lazy to do the search yourself). At least, I don't think it does - I didn't actually look at the linked article.
It's cheaper for cable companies to produce and distribute CableCards than set-top boxes, and consumers are expected to pocket at least some of the savings.
Sure consumers will pocket some of the savings. Just like bypassing the middleman and dsitributing content on-line directly to your customers will allow publishers to pass some of that savings along to the customer (or maybe the companies will just pocket the savings... which sounds more likely to you?) They'll probably rent out the cards for $6.99 a month since they're newer and smaller than cable boxes, and yet effectively have all the same functionality.
Trying to transmit audio data with uncompressed audio or video is not the easiest task. After all, even an audio CD contains data that transmits at 1400kb/s
Shouldn't that be 1200 kb/s? 150 KB/s * 8 = 1200 kb/s, right? Or is the 150 KB/s figure I'm using incorrect (I could have sworn that was the 1x CD speed)?
When a computer, iPod, etc. fails--even at the worst possible time--at most you are severely inconvienced. When your firearm fails at an inopportune time--say, I dunno, when a knife- or dumb gun-wielding intruder breaks into your bedroom maybe?--you are dead.
On the other hand, if your firearm works at an inopportune time (about 10-15 times more likely than it working at an opportune time, from the wdie variety of statistics I've encounterd over the years) you, a family member, or a friend is dead.
Seriously, look it up - there are far more people killed in firearm accidents in the home than are protected in any way, shape, or form by those firearms.
The whole firearm-for-protection argument reminds me of people who for a long time (for all I know, still do) championed not wearing a seatbelt in a car as being safer than wearing a seatbelt, based on a very few cases, while ignoring the vast majority of cases showing that seatbelts greatly improve your odds of living through a crash.
It isn't that I'm anti-gun, it's just that I find it ridiculous to have someone say they don't want a feature on their gun that would virtually eliminate accidental killings on the basis that it might malfunction and prevent their gun from working (never mind the huge number of electronic devices we all depend on daily that don't fail), or that they might encounter an EMP-toting villain. Own a gun if it makes you feel safe (which it probably shouldn't); just don't be an idiot about the whole thing.
So you can visit windowsupdate.com to update your version of windows so you don't get 15 viruses and 30 spyware programs on your computer between the time you install Windows and download Firefox.
I can understand someone who bought a real copy of the game using a no-cd crack so they don't have to have the CD in all the time (I do this for most of my games - I HATE having to swap CDs all the time), but using a cracked CD key? There really doesn't seem to be an excuse for this.
When we don't know who attacked us; or it wasn't a country, but a small group of people scattered around the earth, it's a lot harder to take any kind of retaliatory action.
Somehow I don't see this as being a problem for our current administration - Bush would just launch against whatever targets popped into his head (Iran, North Korea, California - you know, the axis of evil). God'll sort them out afterwards.
50% of all species on the planet will be extinct in the next 50 years - all because of human impact. How the hell can we let that happen? The "mass extinction" of the dinosaurs was ONLY 19% of all species on the planet at that time.
On the other hand, the end-Permian (Permian-Triassic) extinction resulted in the extinction of 90-95% of marine organisms and ~70% of terrestrial species. And that was 298(?) million years ago - several hundred million years before humans were around. Not that the extinctions we are seeing now aren't bad (and a very large portion of them probably are the result of human activity), but they are hardly unprecedented.
California is only entitled to tax you for miles you drive in the state of California. The minute you cross the border into Nevada, Oregon, or Mexico, you can't be taxed.
It is a little-known fact that California now owns Arizona. Those of you living in Arizona, please begin sending your state income tax forms to:
Franchise Tax Board
PO Box 942840 Sacramento 94240-0002
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Not really true. Light vehicles genreally do not damage paved roads at all - the forces they exert on the concrete/asphault are normally well below the threshold that would actually "damage" the road. It is basically only heavy vehicles (buses, trucks, garbage trucks, etc.) that cause significant wear and tear. Not entirely true, but generally so. The vast majority of wear on a road in, say, a suburban neighborhood is due to natural weathering, not traffic - expansion/contraction, water, etc.
The trouble is, even if small cars don't cause much (or any) wear and tear, they do require a certain traffic capacity. The more you drive, the more road capacity you use - if everyone drove 2000 miles a month, either we would have constant gridlock or we would need much larger roads (more lanes, more capacity). Even if a car doesn't directly cause wear and tear on a road, each car does require a certain amount of capacity - and hte more capacity a road has (more lanes, higher speed limit, etc.) the more it costs to build and maintain.
The point is, even though a super-light hybrid (or whatever) might cause significantly less wear and tear than a SUV, it basically requires the same amount of traffic capacity - and by and large, incurs more or less the same costs in road maintenance and construction.
I'm all for giving fuel-efficient cars a tax break, but we should recognize that that is what we are doing - don't try to pretend a hybrid car represents a major difference in road system cost compared to an SUV (well, a light SUV anyway - get up over 5000 or 6000 pounds and the vehicles start contributing significantly to wear and tear).
Yes; something like 40 million years, IIRC.
Depends on your definition of "new"; these ridges have probably been developing for many many thousands (the collision has been ongoing for several million years at least) of years. There was nowhere near 1500m of displacement during this earthquake; more like 10-20m tops (and that is a hell of a lot). Many such events over the last few million years (or even few hundred thousand) are probably responsible.
Still pretty amazing though.
Google wins.
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.15 sec):
I ran a search for an article I read a couple days ago (or maybe yesterday).
Search term: anandtech dell 1905
I was looking for an article on Anandtech about the new Dell 1905fp(?) LCD monitor
Result from Google (331 results,
The article I am looking for is the very first result.
Result from MSN search (196 results,
The first return is for tiwlux.com???? The article I am looking for does not even appear in the top 50 results.
Uh, wait. I tried it again. I tried the search three times; once last night, once about ten minutes ago, and once about two minutes ago. This last time the article I'm looking for has appeared at #3 on the results list - though the first result is for a toshiba laptop (model 1905) reviewed on Anandtech.
Too bad the hard drive in a real mini is too slow for this anyway...
Hey, .oggs
At least it detects
Looks to me like the MPAA just ran across this POS software and linked to it - they seem to do their best to disassociate themselves from anything the software might do - hell, they have a "Terms and Conditions" page when you try and follow the link to the dtecnet website.
That is what the internet is for, so you can learn from the constructive criticism of your fellow gamers in well-thought-out critiques of your talents and weaknesses. That has been my experience, anyway. I swear!
Don't be too hasty. I hear they used an advanced compression algorithm in order to minimize the space the final game will take up. Unfortunately, the decompressor for their "Zero-Space" compression system is only now entering the earliest stages of development.
Note: The above statement, like the article, has little or no foundation in reality.
Of course, at that point the marketing has already succeeded. Assuming you didn't steal the console, anyway.
News results for hard drives - View today's top stories
Leggy brunette drives home hard lesson - Toronto Star - Jan 22, 2005
Not one of the adwords, but I found it funny. The top result (well, sort of) had nothing whatsoever to do with what I was looking for (Western Digital and Seagate were the top two "real" results, with a couple of retailers being the top sponsored links, if you care - or are too lazy to do the search yourself). At least, I don't think it does - I didn't actually look at the linked article.
Sure consumers will pocket some of the savings. Just like bypassing the middleman and dsitributing content on-line directly to your customers will allow publishers to pass some of that savings along to the customer (or maybe the companies will just pocket the savings... which sounds more likely to you?) They'll probably rent out the cards for $6.99 a month since they're newer and smaller than cable boxes, and yet effectively have all the same functionality.
You mean this year's Madden with updated rosters? Yeah, somehow I don't think we are going to be seeing any breakthroughs in gameplay.
Shouldn't that be 1200 kb/s? 150 KB/s * 8 = 1200 kb/s, right? Or is the 150 KB/s figure I'm using incorrect (I could have sworn that was the 1x CD speed)?
One word: Fastpass.
(I'm only semi-serious)
On the other hand, if your firearm works at an inopportune time (about 10-15 times more likely than it working at an opportune time, from the wdie variety of statistics I've encounterd over the years) you, a family member, or a friend is dead.
Seriously, look it up - there are far more people killed in firearm accidents in the home than are protected in any way, shape, or form by those firearms.
The whole firearm-for-protection argument reminds me of people who for a long time (for all I know, still do) championed not wearing a seatbelt in a car as being safer than wearing a seatbelt, based on a very few cases, while ignoring the vast majority of cases showing that seatbelts greatly improve your odds of living through a crash.
It isn't that I'm anti-gun, it's just that I find it ridiculous to have someone say they don't want a feature on their gun that would virtually eliminate accidental killings on the basis that it might malfunction and prevent their gun from working (never mind the huge number of electronic devices we all depend on daily that don't fail), or that they might encounter an EMP-toting villain. Own a gun if it makes you feel safe (which it probably shouldn't); just don't be an idiot about the whole thing.
Yes.... I'm thinking a dark helmet would offer the most protection.
So is this what I need to cool my 1337 overclocked iPod?
I think mauve has the most RAM
-- PHB
INVINCIBLE!
So you can visit windowsupdate.com to update your version of windows so you don't get 15 viruses and 30 spyware programs on your computer between the time you install Windows and download Firefox.
I can understand someone who bought a real copy of the game using a no-cd crack so they don't have to have the CD in all the time (I do this for most of my games - I HATE having to swap CDs all the time), but using a cracked CD key? There really doesn't seem to be an excuse for this.
Somehow I don't see this as being a problem for our current administration - Bush would just launch against whatever targets popped into his head (Iran, North Korea, California - you know, the axis of evil). God'll sort them out afterwards.
Didn't stop these guys.
On the other hand, the end-Permian (Permian-Triassic) extinction resulted in the extinction of 90-95% of marine organisms and ~70% of terrestrial species. And that was 298(?) million years ago - several hundred million years before humans were around. Not that the extinctions we are seeing now aren't bad (and a very large portion of them probably are the result of human activity), but they are hardly unprecedented.
It is a little-known fact that California now owns Arizona. Those of you living in Arizona, please begin sending your state income tax forms to:
Thank you.