I don't have a real problem with wind power, but it takes a lot of them to replace a coal plant. Depending on who's doing the figuring, the number of wind turbines changes. 1395 1.65MW wind turbines to replace the largest coal plant in Wisconsin for name plate production. Newer wind turbines to replace older coal plants isn't that bad of deal though.
I always thought Ender taking short trips but leaving the universe behind was an interesting idea. Talk about fleeing from your past. A short trip to you and everyone you ever knew is dead. Even being famous, he was able to start fresh.
Reminds of Rhona Mitra in Doomsday (hey, I expected more from the guy behind Dog Soldiers)
Since the camera isn't connected to her brain, it's just a fancy pocket for a webcam. Just like Mitra, the only way she could use her eye-cam is to hold the video screen up to her good eye. Tell me what's wrong with that picture.
I didn't have a problem with the old installer being text-based. I just wish it had given you more control over program installation. It'd be nice to have the program choices broken down into categories with the default noted for beginners.
I normally install just the base then set up the repositories, install the stripped down kde and aptitude. Boot and just use aptitude to install the rest.
JFK or ATl would work fine. The incubation period is tricky because a real short period would allow quarantines to be short if not infected, but symptoms like sneezing help spread the disease. You don't need 100% deadly or impossible to cure. Long contagious periods and a long period between catching it and death are good. I laugh when I see something like "24" make the virus superfast acting. Hey, I infected a bunch of people but they all died before they went anywhere. The virus wipes itself out.
You're upset that they switched away from commission based sales force? There was no way they could afford to pay equivalent salary to top sellers on a per hour basis. They usually made more than management. All the top sellers quickly got jobs at other stores. BTW, top sellers were the people who made you feel good about your buying choice even if it meant lying their ass off. Helpful, informative salespeople could lose sales since the best choice was out of stock, but Best Buy had it in stock. Top sellers know what they have in stock and sell that.
I figured people would just do this for kicks. Get a bunch of friends and create virtual traffic jams. I wonder how the system would handle that since a one lane backups do happen.
Snow tires well worth the money. I've usually had pretty good all seasons and avoided snow tires. I ended up with some all seasons that were absolutely horrible in snow and decided to buy some Blizzak WS-60s. Well worth the money. A good point to make is to compare your deductible (small dent and paint scratch will cost more) and how much a set of snow tires costs. I got mine with a set of steelies for less than my deductible.
The problem is that you can't tell what the other players are doing. Are they sitting in the same room, using a chat program, talking on the phone? I know the companies have been going after programs where random strangers see each other's cards and it computes odds based on that, but unless table spots are random you can't control what people do.
there's no such thing as complete anonymity on the net.
Sure, there is. You're going to track everything back to an access point that was used by a laptop. Good luck with tracking down the original owner of the laptop. If you do then you'll find out it was sold for cash or stolen and sold for cash. A one-time use in a very populated or unpopulated area will be anonymous.
Couldn't they charge more for the service, give the cable box for free, allow use of other boxes, but only provide support for certain standards and/or their own equipment?
I'd pretty much read anything including a lot of Heinlein when I was a kid. I'd rather a kid be interested in reading than about a million other things. If you want to avoid some harsher titles, avoid Hubbard's Mission Earth series. Kids will avoid the Dianetics and Scientology stuff on their own.
I thought the same thing, and figured they must have rules against this type of play.
But then couldn't a boxer like Mike Tyson immediately win the world champion title in the second round of the fight?
No, the WCBO's statutes foresee a minimum ELO ranking of 1800 in chess. Each competitor has to fulfil this minimum standard in order to participate in an official chessboxing fight. Someone like Mike Tyson would need years of training to reach this standard... In addition, there's also the zugzwang rule. When a chessboxer doesn't make a move and the referee has good reason to believe that he or she is doing this deliberately, a warning is issued. When the chessboxer still fails to make a move, a second warning is issued whereupon he or she is forced to make a move. If no move is made upon the second warning, the player is immediately disqualified.
I have a friend who retired at 30 after successfully using his bots to win enough money to make him able to live off the interest. He still uses his bots, but now more cautiosly and mostly when he wants to buy a new car, boat etc.
I would never ever play online poker. It is much safer in real life.
Let me get this straight
1. You have a friend. 2. Your friend's bot made him rich. 3. You don't gamble online with your friend's bots that could make you rich.
Got some 10.5" tape reels back from the storage vault for work. I glanced around the computer room, wondering WTF am I supposed to do with this?
I can definitely see how collapsed civilizations weren't able to pass on all their knowledge to ones that came later.
Multiple copies on multiple media in multiple formats(ok, just an open format with multiple copies of the software too.)Kept up to date with new hardware and new media types and spotcheck every year.
ISP: We offer "unlimited" internet access. Customer: Sweet! *starts downloading* ISP: Oh, we didn't mean you should use it.
They advertise a low price and a high speed, then oversell to get that price then reduce the high speed because of it. Hmm, methinks they need more truth in advertising.
1. ISP or other group monitors your internet usage. Would people agree to have all telephone conversations wiretapped in case they do something wrong?
2. Media company downloads from you(person A) to prove it was their IP. If it's a false positive but it's person B's IP. Shouldn't person B be able to sue/disconnect the media company?
I know this sounds great and all, but you go through the trouble of setting this up when you can get a 1TB drive with gigabit network connectivity and USB for $200. If redundacy is an issue, there are other options.
Wipe then sell the drives. I looked into this before with a cabinet of drives. New drive cost/GB and power consumption said it wasn't a good bargain.
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I don't have a real problem with wind power, but it takes a lot of them to replace a coal plant. Depending on who's doing the figuring, the number of wind turbines changes. 1395 1.65MW wind turbines to replace the largest coal plant in Wisconsin for name plate production. Newer wind turbines to replace older coal plants isn't that bad of deal though.
I always thought Ender taking short trips but leaving the universe behind was an interesting idea. Talk about fleeing from your past. A short trip to you and everyone you ever knew is dead. Even being famous, he was able to start fresh.
Reminds of Rhona Mitra in Doomsday (hey, I expected more from the guy behind Dog Soldiers)
Since the camera isn't connected to her brain, it's just a fancy pocket for a webcam. Just like Mitra, the only way she could use her eye-cam is to hold the video screen up to her good eye. Tell me what's wrong with that picture.
I was hopeful about this movie, but Ice Cube is now slated for it. He's more suited for comedies that anything else.
I didn't have a problem with the old installer being text-based. I just wish it had given you more control over program installation. It'd be nice to have the program choices broken down into categories with the default noted for beginners.
I normally install just the base then set up the repositories, install the stripped down kde and aptitude. Boot and just use aptitude to install the rest.
JFK or ATl would work fine.
The incubation period is tricky because a real short period would allow quarantines to be short if not infected, but symptoms like sneezing help spread the disease.
You don't need 100% deadly or impossible to cure.
Long contagious periods and a long period between catching it and death are good. I laugh when I see something like "24" make the virus superfast acting. Hey, I infected a bunch of people but they all died before they went anywhere. The virus wipes itself out.
OK, so the dogs can tell who smoked. What does that get them? The "article" is very lacking.
*Bark, bark, bark*
Hey, you smoked.
Um yeah, at lunch off company propery, off company time.
Or is this more a roving patrol dog?
Will it constantly bark at crushed cigarettes that people throw in trashcans to taunt the dog?
You're upset that they switched away from commission based sales force? There was no way they could afford to pay equivalent salary to top sellers on a per hour basis. They usually made more than management. All the top sellers quickly got jobs at other stores. BTW, top sellers were the people who made you feel good about your buying choice even if it meant lying their ass off. Helpful, informative salespeople could lose sales since the best choice was out of stock, but Best Buy had it in stock. Top sellers know what they have in stock and sell that.
Go into the registry and lower the value for MenuShowDelay. Tada! Faster Windows!
I figured people would just do this for kicks. Get a bunch of friends and create virtual traffic jams. I wonder how the system would handle that since a one lane backups do happen.
ABS off for snow.
Snow tires well worth the money. I've usually had pretty good all seasons and avoided snow tires. I ended up with some all seasons that were absolutely horrible in snow and decided to buy some Blizzak WS-60s. Well worth the money. A good point to make is to compare your deductible (small dent and paint scratch will cost more) and how much a set of snow tires costs. I got mine with a set of steelies for less than my deductible.
You know you could fork it yourself ala Iceweasel.
The problem is that you can't tell what the other players are doing. Are they sitting in the same room, using a chat program, talking on the phone? I know the companies have been going after programs where random strangers see each other's cards and it computes odds based on that, but unless table spots are random you can't control what people do.
Sure, there is. You're going to track everything back to an access point that was used by a laptop. Good luck with tracking down the original owner of the laptop. If you do then you'll find out it was sold for cash or stolen and sold for cash. A one-time use in a very populated or unpopulated area will be anonymous.
Actually, I was thinking tech-savvy volunteers would be more tempted to fix the elections when Diebold machines are used.
Couldn't they charge more for the service, give the cable box for free, allow use of other boxes, but only provide support for certain standards and/or their own equipment?
I'd pretty much read anything including a lot of Heinlein when I was a kid. I'd rather a kid be interested in reading than about a million other things.
If you want to avoid some harsher titles, avoid Hubbard's Mission Earth series. Kids will avoid the Dianetics and Scientology stuff on their own.
I've come up with a better one.
Blackjack-Sex
and this time you don't have to forget about the Blackjack!
(waits for posts about a black guy named Jack.)
I thought the same thing, and figured they must have rules against this type of play.
But then couldn't a boxer like Mike Tyson immediately win the world champion title in the second round of the fight?
No, the WCBO's statutes foresee a minimum ELO ranking of 1800 in chess. Each competitor has to fulfil this minimum standard in order to participate in an official chessboxing fight. Someone like Mike Tyson would need years of training to reach this standard...
In addition, there's also the zugzwang rule. When a chessboxer doesn't make a move and the referee has good reason to believe that he or she is doing this deliberately, a warning is issued. When the chessboxer still fails to make a move, a second warning is issued whereupon he or she is forced to make a move. If no move is made upon the second warning, the player is immediately disqualified.
Let me get this straight
1. You have a friend.
2. Your friend's bot made him rich.
3. You don't gamble online with your friend's bots that could make you rich.
Did I get that right?
Got some 10.5" tape reels back from the storage vault for work. I glanced around the computer room, wondering WTF am I supposed to do with this?
I can definitely see how collapsed civilizations weren't able to pass on all their knowledge to ones that came later.
Multiple copies on multiple media in multiple formats(ok, just an open format with multiple copies of the software too.)Kept up to date with new hardware and new media types and spotcheck every year.
ISP: We offer "unlimited" internet access.
Customer: Sweet! *starts downloading*
ISP: Oh, we didn't mean you should use it.
They advertise a low price and a high speed, then oversell to get that price then reduce the high speed because of it. Hmm, methinks they need more truth in advertising.
Other problems in theory
1. ISP or other group monitors your internet usage. Would people agree to have all telephone conversations wiretapped in case they do something wrong?
2. Media company downloads from you(person A) to prove it was their IP. If it's a false positive but it's person B's IP. Shouldn't person B be able to sue/disconnect the media company?
I know this sounds great and all, but you go through the trouble of setting this up when you can get a 1TB drive with gigabit network connectivity and USB for $200. If redundacy is an issue, there are other options.
Wipe then sell the drives. I looked into this before with a cabinet of drives. New drive cost/GB and power consumption said it wasn't a good bargain.
The picture is a good idea. Here's how I pick chairs. I sit in every chair in the store then go back and compare the ones I like.