the preference checkboxes are the same as the last 2-3 times this story aired on slashdot -- I know because I changed them all from yes, to no, the first time this story ran on slashdot, and they're still all set to no. This is just a typical slashdot dupe, only in this case, it's wired that duped the story... about a year late lol...
Well, a million watts of intensely focused UV light would probabbly burn a hole right through that casing and platter, but normal background uv light is gonna do nothing to a HD, unless you've got it sitting in window of your car, in which case it could achieve temperatures where the platter coating could become warped and permanently dammaged.
phase 1 and 2 determine the suitable dosage, potential side effects, etc... phase 3 and 4 trials involve the more extreme situation of testing on people who may then be exposed. I've been involeved in a number of phase 1 and 2 trilals, and they generally are simple blood and/or urine measurements to see how the drug is absorbe and eliminated ina healthy patient... however, vaccine trials are much more potentially lethal than say, the type of trials i've done, since vaccines are generally made from the virus itself, in this case, it's the viral dna >_ i've only tested medications that were going to become generics... so every phase 1 and 2 study i've done has been on a drug who's name brand counterpart has long been on the market...
200 watts in consumption saved is indeed possible, consider the 45 watts of the extra cooling fans, the 80-120 watts consumed the second processor, and aditional capacitors and circuitry on the motherboard... we're already at a 165 watt saving, and i'm being somewhat conservative on additional power consumption/etc. We haven't even gotten to the cost in converting A/C to DC that is lost by the PSU.. so Utilized energy savings is going to run darn close to 200 watts, at a minimum... Also 200 watts in savings, yields 1765 kwh/year in electric consumption, not the obviously rounded up figure of 2000... at $0.35 per killowatt hour that comes to $617 in annual power consumption savings. Even if you're paying the rock bottem rate of $0.22 per killowatt hour you're saving $388 in electic consumption per year. $200 in savings? You're paying 10 cents a killowatt hour of electricity??? Where do you get your electricity from??? a personal fission reactor??? Nuclear power is the only form of power who's short term costs can break the 10/cent per killowatt barrier nowadays... and the long term costs of waste disposal means that selling at that price would cause a crisis point whereby the money needed to maintain radiocative waste depositories exceeded the power industrys ability to fund such ventures...
Actually, I saw it on the screen savers friday night, but since your post is from thursday, you were timetable wise earlier than tss, but I heard that itunes was comming soon to windows (perhaps in as little as a week!) on TSS. But TSS it was a little iffy on the details of when exactly, and mainly it was just leo extolling the virtues of itunes. no real predictions..
BTW sorry to all my friends, I've been in lala land and stuck on a tin can and a string for internet... Currently I'm slobbering over a 2.5 mbit downstream awesome quality cable modem service:D~~~~
Well, it is true that society isn't here to make sure wal-mart makes a profit, but neither is wal-mart a part of a socialist regime where everyone has full-time employment, even if that means they have 50 people using push brooms to sweep the city park to get there... my point was that wal-mart suceeds in a capitalistic society because they meet the needs of thier customers first and formost... the employee can't possibly come before the consumer. I understand the wal-mart employees shouldn't be treated like dirt, but in my opinion retail chains like wal-mart do the best they can considering what they have to work with. I _liked_ working at k-mart i got a store discount that applied to everything except close-out sales... and i got a dollar an hour better pay than I did in fast food, and there was enough variety in the work that i wasn't bored either. I was also an over-night person so i always got 40 hrs a week, so my pay was good, the place where they treated me like dirt was just putting up the schedule without any hours listed for me to tell me i didn't work there anymore...
I was referring to how wal-mart treats it's customers -- not it's employees. In my experience i get a lot better treatment as a customer... at wal-mart. I've never worked for them, although i did work for k-mart once. your site didn't load at all for me so i can't see what context you pulled those 'facts' out of, but having worked at taco bell they have a 125% a year turn over rate... having to replace every remployee every Nine months. frankly I don't see how even 50% can be true I Loved working retail -- then again k-mart never even told me that they were going to stop scheduling me. they just did one week and i didn't work there anymore. Selling the most $ per sq ft means one thing they're obviously doing thier job better than anyone else, and ultimately it's wal-marts consumers that need to be pleased the most... the employees obviously shouldn't be treated like garbage, but they are working in retail -- a market where the customer determines how many hours the employees need to work a week, more than anything.
Wal-mart isn't a company about absorbing huge losses. they're about making money (and making customers happy, thus the smilely face), and although sam walton isn't around anymore to make sure they stick to his philosphies anymore, the company is still held by his family. yeah, wal-mart is huge, but how did they get that way? by actually meeting the needs of the communities they serve. Thier entire distrobution model turned the the discount chain on it's head. They sell double the amount of mechandise In dollar value per square foot vs. either target or k-mart. at least they did when I worked at K-mart. wal-mart is a good company, and if they put netflix out of buisness it won't be by presuring them out of the buisness -- it'll be because they out do netflix at it's core buisness model. I like mom and pop chains, but now that I live out in the middle of nowhere I can't find anyplace that has anime so if I want to rent it I've got to get either netflix or this new wal-mart service, and you can bet title availability will be decidng whom I go with.
Well, letting the ground come up and smite me is a bit tricky -- I'm already immortal as has been evidenced by my failure to die 10 times in my life (as estimated by me.) Oh and being immortal is not all it's cracked up to be. Sure I don't break bones, but I still cut and bleed normally. Sure I can breathe in toxic vapours and ingest poisons strong enough to kill an elephant and still end up only feeling slightly sick.. but I still have alergies. And I do get sick, although it's pretty infrequent, and generally mild to moderate. oh and other than making dice roll the way I want to (with 72% accuracy --If I'm focused on it) ir cards shuffle the way I want (i've shuffled myself a four of a kind twice in a row before -- and no i don't know any tricks about how to do that intentionally).. reality really isn't so maleable as to make flying easy...
you know, maybe it's the fact that you've got a $3,000 HDTV and that composite video is still SVHS grade video. Compare the sperate channels with S-video Vs the 'single' channel composite. the fact is it's not humanly possible to tell the difference unless your TV is absolutely crappy and can't deal with one situation or the other. blurring and bleeding is not 'inevitable' My cable modem doesn't 'blur and bleed' slashdot and google together then i use my 'favs' bookgroup (mozilla is my browser of choice)... DACs do cause blur and bleed, true, but the only reason for using three seperate cables for video signal is because you're sending analog signals. You could send video from your DVD player to your TV over a shilded coaxial _digital_ network and as long as the network bandwith wasn't being saturated the image would not be prone to 'blur and bleed.' There are Millions of DirecTV subscribers who don't even use a Wire to recieve a single combined digital signal of encrypted digital video signal for hundreds of channels. they don't get any 'blur and bleed' despite not needing a 'red, blue, and green' satelite for each video signal... 5 satelites only one of shich you need for over 100 channels of programming... no blur or bleed.
yeah it's pretty clear that the 64-bit future for mac is the ibm chip. AMD's non processor technology (HyperTransport) is also making its way to apple motherboards. So it's prety clear that when apple is looking for something good in the future, they're willing to look to other sources than the traditional. But you can be sure that information will leak long before shipping hardware sees the light of day, because apple thinks different... they want to ensure the hardware works well -- not just throw together some hodgepodge of mix-n-match stuff. only rarely does apple suprize anyone, i'm trying to remember if anyone knew what the ipod was going to be before hand... I seem to remember most people thinking they'd announce a new processor. Instead they got a portable firewire hard drive/music player -- that makes tapes and cds obsolete. It wasn't the first hd player on the market, and definitely not the cheapest. But it is the most elegant solution, and is so popular they ended up releasing a PC version.
Well not until they can steal the code from somone else, I mean shesh, how long was windows stuck in 4.x revisions? 8 years? the whole time microsoft saying DOS was gonna be dead real soon now? And they got the core tech for NT (the basis for the 5.x branches of windows (XP, Windows Server 2k3 etc) from IBM... IE started at revision 3.x so they're probablly done making IE any better until they can steal the code from someone else. And once they steal the code it'll probablly take them another 8 years to really reimplement it as IE 7.0
In a non-related note, you (slashchick) don't respond to me on yahoo IM. So either you've got it set to a specific ok list of ppl who can msg you, or else I say nothing worth responding to. one or the other...
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Because with Yahoo chatrooms and IRC, you can get all the cyber-lovin' you want, without the pretense and baggage of "character classes", "gold pieces", and "elves."
the RFC for Internet Relay Chat goes back to around the time that MUDs were coming around too. They've always been competing for the online lovin, and it's clear now who the winner is. IRC, where you're not restricted to 16k of aliases for 'automated lovin.'
Oh, ok, except that I expect there are a lot of disappointed elf fetishists sitting in their mothers' basements, fondling their, uh, "miniatures".
Elven fetishists are sure to find a home on some IRC networks (not naming names here) But I do know a few...
Yep, it lends a whole new meaning to "Dungeon Master".
Face it, you're not even a "Dungeon Hack" here;) Ye olde 'Dungeon Master' has had sexual connotations almost since the invention of dungeons.
well lets see... 4x 6 = one 24 can case worth of soda a day (assuming a very soda addicted family) that's the equivalent of 2 bags per day. add in food requirements and that's another 2 bags per day. add in consumistic crap and that's another 0-3 bags depending on how much crap one buys.. So we've got between 4-7 bags worth per day. at peak, so given a margin of exageration 12 bags per day is something one might say if they're frustrated at all the crap mom expects them to lug in the house, when they have no upper body strength because they sit around reading/. all day long....
I forgot about korea, but micron has plants in taiwan if i'm not mistaken. and samsung's main plants are all in japan. So where are these fabled US plants you're talking about? I realize IBM and Intel and AMDs older plant are all in the us, I also realize that there are a few ram lines here in the US, but the majority comes shipped from overseas. LCDs are also a very big production in japan, and CRTs are often produced in mexico. So where is america in all this? we have Microsoft. fun huh?
it's simple really. We're the most powerful and thusly the most corrupt nation on the earth. Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Already the once great glory is lost, and america is finding itself left behind like it's old imperial master great brittan. What country was your motherboard made in(taiwan, most likely)? the ram for your pc(japan and taiwan are the world leaders)? your processor (AMD's main line is in dresden, germany)? instead our 'brightest' minds are subject to the rules set in place by middle management who get there based on schmoozing skills, instead of actual inteligence or ability to perform their jobs. Is it any wonder that america is in decline, now that germany is finally re-unified and reconstructed, and now that much of asia are leaders in technology...
maybe i was confused on which item it was... but there was an item that made all spells 1 mp, and one which redused the cost by 50% and one which reduced by 25% I had a lot of the 50% ones, whichever item name that was, I though they were the economizer but it's been many long years...
The inventory would display say 99 economizers etc, but if you actually sold the items off at a shop you had 254 items. Yeah, I did the sketch glitch, and I did get tons of great items. The items recieved are random, based on numerous factors... but I got tons of daggars and other weapons, and of course an infinite amount of economizers (a very useful rare item that reduced the cost of magic spells by 50%) So I could cast at 1/4 cost by equiping dual economizers. mmm... tasty.
Kodak is still where they've always been... producing mid-range camera products... That is where thier digital camaeras are... how many 'film' SLR kodak cameras are there? much less the new Digital SLRs that are quickly coming in to replace digital photography... and surprize nikon known for quality lenses and high end cameras has the best SLR digital camera. A digital that doesn't wait until 'after' you've pressed the button to snap the shot. it's there just as fast as the shutter speed on a real film camera. Sure you pay $2,600 for the nikon 6 megapixel SLR camera, and that's without lenses or memory.... but that's what it costs to make a truly pro-grade digital cam (now). And maybe a few people are switching from film (I have.) But I did buy a kodak digital camera, because for the price/performance range I was looking at they had the best feature set. Most people are still using film. Digital pictures don't work the same. It's nice to be able to delete on the fly, and to esentially have unlimited film, and you can even get pretty decent sized prints nowadays. a 4 megapixel camera only produces 8x10 'native' resolution images. 35 mm film is equivalent to 10 megapixels, so really digital cameras are still playing catchup with 'real' film in 'native' resolutions.
very rare? There are grains of salt so massive the've got miles of tunnels within to mine the salt out. in any case your comment wasn't worth it's salt (a phrase going back to when salt was valued as highly as gold..) Take it with a grain of salt refers to measuring the value of what has been said against the value of gold (since salt and gold used to share a single value.) If what has been said isn't worth it's salt then it doesn't compare when taken to a grain of salt, and thus there is no truth behind what is being said. That being said the 'rather large' is quite inappropriate, as the riaa's claims of rampant losses due to digital piracy are simply untrue. They've claimed losses to digital piracy when they were raking in record sales, and claim even worse when they suffer declining sales in a floundering economy.
Er, for all you know those addresses have nothing to do with the actual spammers.
Often spammers hide behind other systems (duh).
I've known people who get reverse spammed because they get blacklisted as a spammer (by people like you) and it wasn't them at all, but someone using forged addresses. For all he knows, those are the e-mail addresses at an isp that is pro-spam. the rest is relatively true. My parents system was 'hijacked' for use as an open relay when they tried to enable internet sharing from it, and it opened thier smtp port for 'relay' to the internet due to a bad design in the software used. the isp informed them and got them to install a firewall ASAP. This instantly blocked all access except from the machine dialing out as well. usually 'forged' means tney've got a piece of software like AnalogX's Proxy installed (which defaults to making your system an open SMTP relay) so it may be 'unwittingly adaing and abeting spam' but usually it isn't just a 'forged' address. it's because your system was openly relaying smtp without any evaluation as to where it originated or how authentic the headers were, either because of a legitimitate software application that was mis-configured, or else because of some evil software they downloaded off kazza or that came with some crappy shareware. Although it's possible for people to be 'falsly' accused of sending the spam, usually they did something that enabled the spam to be sent to be 'falsly' accused.
It wouldn't 'solve' the spam problem, but it would make spammers 'outlaws.' Spam artists... the digital era's snake oil salesmen. They won't be stopped by a law requiring a 'real' name to all e-mails. Unless the server side suto discards all unverified mailers. which would mean you and I also have to verify our identity to send e-mails. Otherwise the system merely requires UCEs to identify, while 'spam artists' forge that field like they would any other. And if 'individual' users don't need a name stamp to verify the e-mail, then spam artists will just use kazza to spread a trojan to thousands of machines to send tons of spam out over unsuspecting people's computers. They're breaking the law by sending spam in the first place, and advertising scams for the most part too... so what's one more law for them to break? I do diferentiate between UCE and Spam. UCE comes from legitimate companies that genuinely can be forced to adhere to an unsubscribe list because they're 'legitimate.' Spam artists are just harvesting e-mails and sending out ads for crappy all ad banner sites or falsely advertized products, or in a few cases click through urls to legitimate sites. which would register the same as an ad banner click through for thier account. Adding names isn't enough to stop the latter, and the former are just now realizing how they need to get spam-artists stopped too. Basically, one solution would be to 'mandate' that home users can only send X emails to y recipients per day. while buisnesses are allowed to send X * Z to y + y recipients unless they pay $0.10 per aditional message to each additional recipient above and beyond the stated limits. Z = number of employees at said buisiness. Very authoritarian, very restictive of freedom, but it does in effect force even the 'spam' artists to either opt for methods which prevent them from paying stated fees (eg: making them hacker/terrorists subject to the 'patiot act') or else to cap their activites, or to 'pay' for them. It also caps UCEs, so the bulk-mailer industry would be against it wholeheartedly. Alternatively said system could be ammended so that bulk e-mailers could 'apply' for a license to send UCE which would only cost a flat subscription rate, proof of identity and location and adherance to a universal do-not-mail list. Said licence could be revoked for falsifying any headers or other data in the e-mail, so spam artists wouldn't use that license unless they thought they could pull off the scam in less time than it would take for authorities to catch onto them. Basically, the only sure fire method comes down to shooting people in the street without trials on the _suspicion_ of being spammers. that would stop it cold, if done globally. It would also get a lot of people shot dead for pissing off thier neighbors. but it would stop spam. nothing short of that is a 'final' solution. they're all just 'efforts in a war' a war that can't be won unless you're willing to shed a river of blood.
Anyone who can't wait that long really needs to learn some patients. Are we gonna learn some slashdotters too? patience can be learned, but patients are the kind of people tho make websites like this one Someone had to be pedantic...
they already have a mod-hack and mini DVD-r backups (for NGC long time ago they first came out already). Emulators can't be that far behind that kind of effort. BTW Every DVD-rom has this 'magical' proprietory ability to read 80mm DVDs... It's the encryption on the disk that requires violation of the DMCA to perform software emulation.
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the preference checkboxes are the same as the last 2-3 times this story aired on slashdot -- I know because I changed them all from yes, to no, the first time this story ran on slashdot, and they're still all set to no.
This is just a typical slashdot dupe, only in this case, it's wired that duped the story... about a year late lol...
Well, a million watts of intensely focused UV light would probabbly burn a hole right through that casing and platter, but normal background uv light is gonna do nothing to a HD, unless you've got it sitting in window of your car, in which case it could achieve temperatures where the platter coating could become warped and permanently dammaged.
phase 1 and 2 determine the suitable dosage, potential side effects, etc... phase 3 and 4 trials involve the more extreme situation of testing on people who may then be exposed. I've been involeved in a number of phase 1 and 2 trilals, and they generally are simple blood and/or urine measurements to see how the drug is absorbe and eliminated ina healthy patient... however, vaccine trials are much more potentially lethal than say, the type of trials i've done, since vaccines are generally made from the virus itself, in this case, it's the viral dna >_
i've only tested medications that were going to become generics... so every phase 1 and 2 study i've done has been on a drug who's name brand counterpart has long been on the market...
200 watts in consumption saved is indeed possible,
consider the 45 watts of the extra cooling fans, the 80-120 watts consumed the second processor, and aditional capacitors and circuitry on the motherboard... we're already at a 165 watt saving, and i'm being somewhat conservative on additional power consumption/etc. We haven't even gotten to the cost in converting A/C to DC that is lost by the PSU.. so Utilized energy savings is going to run darn close to 200 watts, at a minimum... Also 200 watts in savings, yields 1765 kwh/year in electric consumption, not the obviously rounded up figure of 2000... at $0.35 per killowatt hour that comes to $617 in annual power consumption savings.
Even if you're paying the rock bottem rate of $0.22 per killowatt hour you're saving $388 in electic consumption per year.
$200 in savings? You're paying 10 cents a killowatt hour of electricity??? Where do you get your electricity from??? a personal fission reactor??? Nuclear power is the only form of power who's short term costs can break the 10/cent per killowatt barrier nowadays... and the long term costs of waste disposal means that selling at that price would cause a crisis point whereby the money needed to maintain radiocative waste depositories exceeded the power industrys ability to fund such ventures...
Actually, I saw it on the screen savers friday night, but since your post is from thursday, you were timetable wise earlier than tss, but I heard that itunes was comming soon to windows (perhaps in as little as a week!) on TSS. But TSS it was a little iffy on the details of when exactly, and mainly it was just leo extolling the virtues of itunes. no real predictions..
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BTW sorry to all my friends, I've been in lala land and stuck on a tin can and a string for internet... Currently I'm slobbering over a 2.5 mbit downstream awesome quality cable modem service
Well, it is true that society isn't here to make sure wal-mart makes a profit, but neither is wal-mart a part of a socialist regime where everyone has full-time employment, even if that means they have 50 people using push brooms to sweep the city park to get there... ... and i got a dollar an hour better pay than I did in fast food, and there was enough variety in the work that i wasn't bored either. I was also an over-night person so i always got 40 hrs a week, so my pay was good, the place where they treated me like dirt was just putting up the schedule without any hours listed for me to tell me i didn't work there anymore...
my point was that wal-mart suceeds in a capitalistic society because they meet the needs of thier customers first and formost... the employee can't possibly come before the consumer.
I understand the wal-mart employees shouldn't be treated like dirt, but in my opinion retail chains like wal-mart do the best they can considering what they have to work with.
I _liked_ working at k-mart i got a store discount that applied to everything except close-out sales
I was referring to how wal-mart treats it's customers -- not it's employees. In my experience i get a lot better treatment as a customer... at wal-mart. I've never worked for them, although i did work for k-mart once.
your site didn't load at all for me so i can't see what context you pulled those 'facts' out of, but having worked at taco bell they have a 125% a year turn over rate... having to replace every remployee every Nine months. frankly I don't see how even 50% can be true I Loved working retail -- then again k-mart never even told me that they were going to stop scheduling me. they just did one week and i didn't work there anymore.
Selling the most $ per sq ft means one thing they're obviously doing thier job better than anyone else, and ultimately it's wal-marts consumers that need to be pleased the most... the employees obviously shouldn't be treated like garbage, but they are working in retail -- a market where the customer determines how many hours the employees need to work a week, more than anything.
Wal-mart isn't a company about absorbing huge losses. they're about making money (and making customers happy, thus the smilely face), and although sam walton isn't around anymore to make sure they stick to his philosphies anymore, the company is still held by his family.
yeah, wal-mart is huge, but how did they get that way? by actually meeting the needs of the communities they serve. Thier entire distrobution model turned the the discount chain on it's head.
They sell double the amount of mechandise In dollar value per square foot vs. either target or k-mart. at least they did when I worked at K-mart.
wal-mart is a good company, and if they put netflix out of buisness it won't be by presuring them out of the buisness -- it'll be because they out do netflix at it's core buisness model.
I like mom and pop chains, but now that I live out in the middle of nowhere I can't find anyplace that has anime so if I want to rent it I've got to get either netflix or this new wal-mart service, and you can bet title availability will be decidng whom I go with.
Well, letting the ground come up and smite me is a bit tricky -- I'm already immortal as has been evidenced by my failure to die 10 times in my life (as estimated by me.) .. reality really isn't so maleable as to make flying easy...
Oh and being immortal is not all it's cracked up to be. Sure I don't break bones, but I still cut and bleed normally. Sure I can breathe in toxic vapours and ingest poisons strong enough to kill an elephant and still end up only feeling slightly sick.. but I still have alergies. And I do get sick, although it's pretty infrequent, and generally mild to moderate.
oh and other than making dice roll the way I want to (with 72% accuracy --If I'm focused on it) ir cards shuffle the way I want (i've shuffled myself a four of a kind twice in a row before -- and no i don't know any tricks about how to do that intentionally)
you know, maybe it's the fact that you've got a $3,000 HDTV and that composite video is still SVHS grade video. Compare the sperate channels with S-video Vs the 'single' channel composite.
the fact is it's not humanly possible to tell the difference unless your TV is absolutely crappy and can't deal with one situation or the other.
blurring and bleeding is not 'inevitable' My cable modem doesn't 'blur and bleed' slashdot and google together then i use my 'favs' bookgroup (mozilla is my browser of choice)...
DACs do cause blur and bleed, true, but the only reason for using three seperate cables for video signal is because you're sending analog signals. You could send video from your DVD player to your TV over a shilded coaxial _digital_ network and as long as the network bandwith wasn't being saturated the image would not be prone to 'blur and bleed.' There are Millions of DirecTV subscribers who don't even use a Wire to recieve a single combined digital signal of encrypted digital video signal for hundreds of channels. they don't get any 'blur and bleed' despite not needing a 'red, blue, and green' satelite for each video signal... 5 satelites only one of shich you need for over 100 channels of programming... no blur or bleed.
yeah it's pretty clear that the 64-bit future for mac is the ibm chip. AMD's non processor technology (HyperTransport) is also making its way to apple motherboards. So it's prety clear that when apple is looking for something good in the future, they're willing to look to other sources than the traditional. But you can be sure that information will leak long before shipping hardware sees the light of day, because apple thinks different... they want to ensure the hardware works well -- not just throw together some hodgepodge of mix-n-match stuff.
only rarely does apple suprize anyone, i'm trying to remember if anyone knew what the ipod was going to be before hand... I seem to remember most people thinking they'd announce a new processor. Instead they got a portable firewire hard drive/music player -- that makes tapes and cds obsolete. It wasn't the first hd player on the market, and definitely not the cheapest. But it is the most elegant solution, and is so popular they ended up releasing a PC version.
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Well not until they can steal the code from somone else, I mean shesh, how long was windows stuck in 4.x revisions? 8 years? the whole time microsoft saying DOS was gonna be dead real soon now? And they got the core tech for NT (the basis for the 5.x branches of windows (XP, Windows Server 2k3 etc) from IBM... IE started at revision 3.x so they're probablly done making IE any better until they can steal the code from someone else. And once they steal the code it'll probablly take them another 8 years to really reimplement it as IE 7.0
In a non-related note, you (slashchick) don't respond to me on yahoo IM. So either you've got it set to a specific ok list of ppl who can msg you, or else I say nothing worth responding to. one or the other...
Because with Yahoo chatrooms and IRC, you can get all the cyber-lovin' you want, without the pretense and baggage of "character classes", "gold pieces", and "elves."
;) Ye olde 'Dungeon Master' has had sexual connotations almost since the invention of dungeons.
the RFC for Internet Relay Chat goes back to around the time that MUDs were coming around too. They've always been competing for the online lovin, and it's clear now who the winner is. IRC, where you're not restricted to 16k of aliases for 'automated lovin.'
Oh, ok, except that I expect there are a lot of disappointed elf fetishists sitting in their mothers' basements, fondling their, uh, "miniatures".
Elven fetishists are sure to find a home on some IRC networks (not naming names here) But I do know a few...
Yep, it lends a whole new meaning to "Dungeon Master".
Face it, you're not even a "Dungeon Hack" here
well lets see... 4x 6 = one 24 can case worth of soda a day (assuming a very soda addicted family) that's the equivalent of 2 bags per day. add in food requirements and that's another 2 bags per day. /. all day long....
add in consumistic crap and that's another 0-3 bags depending on how much crap one buys..
So we've got between 4-7 bags worth per day. at peak, so given a margin of exageration 12 bags per day is something one might say if they're frustrated at all the crap mom expects them to lug in the house, when they have no upper body strength because they sit around reading
I forgot about korea, but micron has plants in taiwan if i'm not mistaken. and samsung's main plants are all in japan. So where are these fabled US plants you're talking about? I realize IBM and Intel and AMDs older plant are all in the us, I also realize that there are a few ram lines here in the US, but the majority comes shipped from overseas. LCDs are also a very big production in japan, and CRTs are often produced in mexico. So where is america in all this? we have Microsoft. fun huh?
it's simple really. We're the most powerful and thusly the most corrupt nation on the earth. Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Already the once great glory is lost, and america is finding itself left behind like it's old imperial master great brittan. What country was your motherboard made in(taiwan, most likely)? the ram for your pc(japan and taiwan are the world leaders)? your processor (AMD's main line is in dresden, germany)? instead our 'brightest' minds are subject to the rules set in place by middle management who get there based on schmoozing skills, instead of actual inteligence or ability to perform their jobs. Is it any wonder that america is in decline, now that germany is finally re-unified and reconstructed, and now that much of asia are leaders in technology...
maybe i was confused on which item it was... but there was an item that made all spells 1 mp, and one which redused the cost by 50% and one which reduced by 25% I had a lot of the 50% ones, whichever item name that was, I though they were the economizer but it's been many long years...
The inventory would display say 99 economizers etc, but if you actually sold the items off at a shop you had 254 items.
Yeah, I did the sketch glitch, and I did get tons of great items. The items recieved are random, based on numerous factors... but I got tons of daggars and other weapons, and of course an infinite amount of economizers (a very useful rare item that reduced the cost of magic spells by 50%) So I could cast at 1/4 cost by equiping dual economizers. mmm... tasty.
Kodak is still where they've always been... producing mid-range camera products... That is where thier digital camaeras are... how many 'film' SLR kodak cameras are there? much less the new Digital SLRs that are quickly coming in to replace digital photography... and surprize nikon known for quality lenses and high end cameras has the best SLR digital camera. A digital that doesn't wait until 'after' you've pressed the button to snap the shot. it's there just as fast as the shutter speed on a real film camera.
Sure you pay $2,600 for the nikon 6 megapixel SLR camera, and that's without lenses or memory....
but that's what it costs to make a truly pro-grade digital cam (now). And maybe a few people are switching from film (I have.) But I did buy a kodak digital camera, because for the price/performance range I was looking at they had the best feature set.
Most people are still using film. Digital pictures don't work the same. It's nice to be able to delete on the fly, and to esentially have unlimited film, and you can even get pretty decent sized prints nowadays. a 4 megapixel camera only produces 8x10 'native' resolution images. 35 mm film is equivalent to 10 megapixels, so really digital cameras are still playing catchup with 'real' film in 'native' resolutions.
very rare? There are grains of salt so massive the've got miles of tunnels within to mine the salt out. in any case your comment wasn't worth it's salt (a phrase going back to when salt was valued as highly as gold..)
Take it with a grain of salt refers to measuring the value of what has been said against the value of gold (since salt and gold used to share a single value.) If what has been said isn't worth it's salt then it doesn't compare when taken to a grain of salt, and thus there is no truth behind what is being said.
That being said the 'rather large' is quite inappropriate, as the riaa's claims of rampant losses due to digital piracy are simply untrue.
They've claimed losses to digital piracy when they were raking in record sales, and claim even worse when they suffer declining sales in a floundering economy.
Er, for all you know those addresses have nothing to do with the actual spammers.
Often spammers hide behind other systems (duh).
I've known people who get reverse spammed because they get blacklisted as a spammer (by people like you) and it wasn't them at all, but someone using forged addresses.
For all he knows, those are the e-mail addresses at an isp that is pro-spam.
the rest is relatively true.
My parents system was 'hijacked' for use as an open relay when they tried to enable internet sharing from it, and it opened thier smtp port for 'relay' to the internet due to a bad design in the software used.
the isp informed them and got them to install a firewall ASAP. This instantly blocked all access except from the machine dialing out as well.
usually 'forged' means tney've got a piece of software like AnalogX's Proxy installed (which defaults to making your system an open SMTP relay)
so it may be 'unwittingly adaing and abeting spam' but usually it isn't just a 'forged' address. it's because your system was openly relaying smtp without any evaluation as to where it originated or how authentic the headers were, either because of a legitimitate software application that was mis-configured, or else because of some evil software they downloaded off kazza or that came with some crappy shareware.
Although it's possible for people to be 'falsly' accused of sending the spam, usually they did something that enabled the spam to be sent to be 'falsly' accused.
It wouldn't 'solve' the spam problem, but it would make spammers 'outlaws.' Spam artists... the digital era's snake oil salesmen. They won't be stopped by a law requiring a 'real' name to all e-mails. Unless the server side suto discards all unverified mailers. which would mean you and I also have to verify our identity to send e-mails.
Otherwise the system merely requires UCEs to identify, while 'spam artists' forge that field like they would any other. And if 'individual' users don't need a name stamp to verify the e-mail, then spam artists will just use kazza to spread a trojan to thousands of machines to send tons of spam out over unsuspecting people's computers. They're breaking the law by sending spam in the first place, and advertising scams for the most part too... so what's one more law for them to break?
I do diferentiate between UCE and Spam. UCE comes from legitimate companies that genuinely can be forced to adhere to an unsubscribe list because they're 'legitimate.' Spam artists are just harvesting e-mails and sending out ads for crappy all ad banner sites or falsely advertized products, or in a few cases click through urls to legitimate sites. which would register the same as an ad banner click through for thier account.
Adding names isn't enough to stop the latter, and the former are just now realizing how they need to get spam-artists stopped too.
Basically, one solution would be to 'mandate' that home users can only send X emails to y recipients per day. while buisnesses are allowed to send X * Z to y + y recipients unless they pay $0.10 per aditional message to each additional recipient above and beyond the stated limits. Z = number of employees at said buisiness.
Very authoritarian, very restictive of freedom, but it does in effect force even the 'spam' artists to either opt for methods which prevent them from paying stated fees (eg: making them hacker/terrorists subject to the 'patiot act') or else to cap their activites, or to 'pay' for them.
It also caps UCEs, so the bulk-mailer industry would be against it wholeheartedly.
Alternatively said system could be ammended so that bulk e-mailers could 'apply' for a license to send UCE which would only cost a flat subscription rate, proof of identity and location and adherance to a universal do-not-mail list. Said licence could be revoked for falsifying any headers or other data in the e-mail, so spam artists wouldn't use that license unless they thought they could pull off the scam in less time than it would take for authorities to catch onto them.
Basically, the only sure fire method comes down to shooting people in the street without trials on the _suspicion_ of being spammers. that would stop it cold, if done globally. It would also get a lot of people shot dead for pissing off thier neighbors. but it would stop spam. nothing short of that is a 'final' solution. they're all just 'efforts in a war' a war that can't be won unless you're willing to shed a river of blood.
Anyone who can't wait that long really needs to learn some patients.
Are we gonna learn some slashdotters too?
patience can be learned, but patients are the kind of people tho make websites like this one
Someone had to be pedantic...
they already have a mod-hack and mini DVD-r backups (for NGC long time ago they first came out already).
Emulators can't be that far behind that kind of effort. BTW Every DVD-rom has this 'magical' proprietory ability to read 80mm DVDs... It's the encryption on the disk that requires violation of the DMCA to perform software emulation.