I keep wondering why people buy 30" computer monitors... is there something wrong with a 1080p 46" TV set? they sell DVD to hdmi cables, and many sets have a PC input.
that particular set has a PC connection, 2 dvi ports and 1 hdmi, and here's the kicker, the difference in response time?.5 ms the Samsung has 6ms the Westinghouse has 6.5ms
i've heard before that Westinghouse displays are basically big PC monitors, with a TV tuner attached.
now i know, a HDTV generally only supports 1080p, 1080i, 720p, and 480i on the HD inputs, and since this one has PC inputs on the pc input it accepts 1920 x 1080, 640 x 480, 800 x 600, 1024 x 768 on the PC input... finding a RGB PC cable is easy, i used to specifically pick out PC monitors with replaceable cables, in case the cable got cut/kinked or the end pins broken.. so i already have cables from old monitors!
is it really worth it to support 2560x1600 resolution? especially since modern (single card setups) gaming cards can't even handle 1080p on modern game engines.. and even with multi card support, the CPU winds up being a limiting factor... OCing to 4 ghz with some extreme cooling solution, like the xp-120 or water cooling... is probably the only way to really push frame rates, even with a SLI/crossfire solution.
where i live, the women's prison is where all the computers get scrapped for recycling.
it's quite expensive to ship a useless computer across the ocean to be recycled, when they get shipped to china, they bury them in a landfill, where they then leech into the ground water.
very cool, so people worried about cars failing have nothing to worry about, every time you hit a pot hole, the tin whiskers are all going to fall off!
perhaps we need to put 'dual shock' systems in lead free soldier devices to knock free the tin whiskers.
""Tin Whiskers" were a problem with early electronic solders which were coincidentally lead-free, and lead was initially added in part to eliminate them. These problems are negligible in modern alloys,[citation needed]"
the only metal I've heard of as being whisker free is lead, though, even gold silver and copper can whisker.
that's why they cost 100 million, they're designed to last 30 years and in space, where they get hit by hard radiation, and where heat is very hard to dissipate.
ROSH laws require less than 0.1% though... i think they need to rethink that on lead, if 1% lead stops whiskering, it's well worth it.
cadmium is also banned, and was the first metal to ever verify whiskering. chromate actually accelerates whiskering, so finding an additive that is better than lead might be hard.
i tried google shopping to find a paladin tools ethernet checking tool, and they were all over $40!
my multimeter cost $12, sure it takes a few minutes to check each wire for cross-talk and signal, (64 wire checks) but they're all in the same multimeter setting.
but that's affordable! that stuff is rated for slightly better than cat6 speeds, and only 50 cents a foot, but not quite cat 6a which generally runs about $1 a foot (a little more, not much though)
ironic you called cat 6 cable 'cat5' the wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_5_cable clears up the difference (just the 'rated' mhz of the cable) although, the only real reason to buy cat6a is for 10 Gbit ethernet. cat 5 cable was usually unsuitable for gigabit ethernet which was why cat5e came along , and then they went to cat 6 to make gigabit ethernet practical for long hauls.
anyways, if you're going to rip people off selling a very short ethernet cable (with directional arrows LOL that is a joke in and of itself.) at least make it cat 6a so they can run 10 gigabit ethernet..
BTW I'm still using a vintage 4 channel Dolby surround stereo that my folks got on clearance when all the new 5 channel dolby pro logic units came on the market. there is Nothing Wrong with the unit, i have even put DVD audio through it, and it still sounds just fine, in fact, it sounds better to me, because dolby 5 and dolby 5.1 systems make 'voices' extremely hard to hear over sound effects, when a dvd player down mixes to stereo, then the stereo signal is up mixed to dolby surround the sound effects are quieter than with a true 5.1 sound system...
the reason they made the sound effects so loud was so that people could hear the speakers behind them, the critical flaw of the dolby 4 speaker systems was the rear level was almost unrecognizable from the front channels (even when you maxed the rear level volume) making people wonder what they paid for...
but the main reason i use the stereo, is because it has a load of audio and video channels, and has a remote, so i can switch from one sound/video feed to another quickly, and without having to get up.
USB 2.0 added the ability to draw up to 1.5amps for charging capabilities (the minimum is 100 milliamp). usb 3.0 could up the amperage even more, but again, usb will only ever put out 5 volt DC.
fortunately there are a lot of devices that can run off 5 volt DC, so usb charging instead of wall brick is starting to take off. it's much cheaper to power off usb than to include a 'cheap' wall brick. only window's implementation of usb is 'broken' so that a device needs a device driver and must be in 'active' mode to charge.
besides, if you design the device to charge off usb, you can then 'sell' a brick that costs extra and not include one for the 'price' of the device. both saving money, and adding a revenue stream.
I'm not a business owner, but i am paranoid, especially about computer viruses.
I've got a nice approach right now to always keep my drives clean. it's an old IDE hdd, that has a clean install of windows with just the basics. it happens to be a maxtor, so i can use the 'max blast' software. seagate owns maxtor now, though and seagate has the same nice drive utility suite. most HDD vendors offer a comparable suite. but, since i am paranoid, i don't use these 'windows' solutions to purge a drive. i use darik's boot and nuke.
as for where i keep my valuable data? dvd-roms, and possibly on a usb HDD, in the event that i even think an infection has taken place, i dump all my data to a linux drive, format every windows drive, including the USB one i use for backups when a dvd-rom isn't enough.
the usb drive never sees a windows system that is connected to the net, and i use separate windows drives, for playing online games, and for playing movies/backing up dvds. the dvd system is never on the net either. for a while i was using diff, and linux to verify my system wasn't being compromised, but that takes a lot of disc space, especially if you keep all the old files, and it doesn't scan problems that can occur within the NTFS itself, there is a program called ntfs clone for linux that can check the metadata for infections, but with my new ability to wipe my system clean within 30 minutes, tops and then only have to configure a few things i left unconfigured...
well, it may not be as impressive a system as what 'enterprise' users use, but i can clean a system, even wipe it's bios, (i've had to do that before, when a system was rooted for a long time) without using anything microsoft based... the only problem, is vista, vista needs it's CD/DVD media when it's been copied by HDD utilities.
that will be annoying, but knowing that at any given moment i can clean my systems completely, without hackers being able to stop me, is something i really needed to have, even medicated.
"Sometimes all a properly enforced law can do is reduce the frequency of an event."
but that's not what (insert group that wants draconian laws passed here) said! what gets me is they say 'our children will be safer, people will be able to sleep at night without worrying about X Y or Z...
the people trying to push draconian laws forget that as Americans, we're supposed to have Freedom. the founders of America strongly believed it was better 9 guilty men walked free than one innocent man be hanged. draconian laws can 'halt' crimes but anything less is just 'the best we can prevent these things, without destroying liberty and freedom.'
it really really bugs me when people claim so and so a law is going to 'make everything all right' this is why people get pissed off at the RIAA trying to sue everyone, and force draconian anti-copyright infringement laws...
this is America, and as long as everyone is allowed a fair and impartial trial, the true sociopaths capable of repeated rape, murder, and molestation will have just as much a chance at walking free as an innocent person who was taken without enough real evidence. all they have to do is learn to destroy the evidence better than the cops can find real evidence.
DNA fingerprinting has been labeled a 'huge' success, but even that hasn't caused a dent in murder rates. all you need to learn is there is a chemical that can destroy DNA, and not leave a 'corpse' or living breathing human witness behind.
sure 'cleaning' up a crime scene has become exponentially harder with new DNA technology, but it will never be impossible to get away with murder.
The problem is the production of child porn which of course involves abuse of children.
A common misconception: Child porn laws have generally been expanded - at least here in Scandinavia - to also include paintings, drawings and text, and non-nude photos "interpreted" as raunchy. But the public believes that child porn == abuse pictures. They tried to do that here in the US too, the supreme court struck down the law that made 'drawings' child porn.
the reason? the Simpsons. someone tipped off out media overlords that the wording of a law, would make fox liable for providing massive massive amounts of 'child porn' in the form of bart simpsons 'artist rendered' butt.
all hail the democratic process of out all powerful media overlords, for protecting us from a ridiculous law that would make a yellow butt that only vaguely looks like a butt child porn.
the coca leaf is.8% cocaine, sucrose is about 3% of the sugar cane plant, so you need about 3x the acreage to produce coca. the coca plant itself can live for up to 40 years, whereas sugarcane is planted from clippings, a costly expensive process, the wiki isn't conclusive on how often cane can be 'harvested' but the maximum is 10 harvests.
cocaine is traditionally grown in tropic mountain regions with long growing seasons... but the 'preferred' cocaine grows in slightly dryer regions, this means potentially that coca can grow in regions where sugar cane cannot because cane is a very water hungry plant.
with all the variables, if coca was legal it might just well be priced around the cost of sugar. but most likely it would be much higher, although if prohibition forces had never made it illegal I'm sure coca-cola would have done their best to make it as cheap as sugar. at least for themselves.
this is better how? it's actually happening in America now too, why? they don't have mandatory sentencing for having a bottle of OxyContin with your name on it.
"If you can cut off the buyer from the seller, you can make a dent in the problem."
the fundamental flaw with that argument is that laws can change human behavior.
let's step away from the pedophilia rates, because there just aren't good statistics globally for this problem, and switch to something i can quickly draw statistics for.
Let's switch to homicide. Right up there with the world's oldest profession, homicide is so important, it's the first thing humans do, after they get kicked out of paradise (cain and abel)
now, let's see, murder has been illegal for as long as i can remember, i think that cain and abel reference is a good cornerstone for about when murder became illegal, in the stone age.
so with all out modern technology, surly such an old, such a fundamental problem has gotten BETTER hasn't it? well, the number jumps around A LOT the important thing is that per capita, homicide rates have not ever really made much of a downward run, they've been higher than they are now, but they really don't want to drop below 5 per 100,000 people, in the past 100 years of record keeping...
so now magically laws are 'supposed' to protect our kids from pedophiles when they can't stop 5 people per every 100,000 from dying every single year?
but it never ceases to amaze me, the people who think 'they're making a dent in crime' they think we as humans will stop killing each other, stop raping women or children, just because of a few words on a piece of paper.
if you want to protect your kids from pedophiles you damn well better have a better strategy than 'the government will protect us with their vorpal law + 12 against pedophiles!' that's all i'm saying.
but you can see why a person trusting the data on the gromacs page would try to run it on a PS3 rather than on some cheap wintel box from an oem? what if their department head is a big wintel bigot? not an AMD machine under the roof unless it belongs to someone besides the university?
"Seriously, what are they really hoping to accomplish with this act? Has it done any significant good?"
i think the whole point, is pandering, positioning, and of course, legislating e-mail the the point where nobody running a legitimate business would think of sending unsolicited e-mails without contracting through a 'professional' spam mail company.
so in other words, it's done nothing but make the spam industry more profitable, while pretending to have improved the situation when it has done nothing of the like.
personally, spamcop, founded in 1998 is the only real anti-spam tool that has Ever worked for me.
some spammers try to fight back against regular spamcop users, I've even been signed up to mailing lists that don't require e-mail verification by spammers because of my use of spamcop. but now that organized crime is involved in spam, they send me Less spam from compromised systems, so that network admins don't get informed of these spamming/scams...
if enough people used spamcop, organized crime would have to think of a way around it, but the types of people who report spam know about internet scams in the first place, so they know which list to put my e-mail address on, based on which e-mails i report to spamcop.
well, i just finished reading the wiki, apparently Jupiter cooled, then warmed fairly quickly after the shoemaker levy impact, much faster than scientists predicted. it's possible that shoemaker levy kicked up green house gases, but if it had the effects should have showed up sooner, rather than later. unless the global warming was a gradual process cause by a slow, chain reaction caused by the particulate gradually altering the atmosphere of jupiter.
still, it's more likely there was some other cause for jupiter warming, after all the sunspot issue would tend to indicate the sun is putting out less energy, not more.
"Second, while the warming of Jupiter can be explained by increases in solar output, the warming of Earth can not."
no clearly, the jovians are all driving SUVs too, that must be it, it couldn't possibly be comet shoemaker levy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Shoemaker-Levy_9 increasing the atmospheric density of Jupiter, causing a cascade of global warming... remember, earth is full of dust, Jupiter is full of gases, some of them in liquid form. a comet impact might well have the opposite effect (global warming) rather than the hypothetical global cooling of such an impact on earth.
"that's my favorite part of global warming. They are all worried about a 3,000 year old ice shelf collapsing."
personally, i like mount Kilimanjaro myself. losing 80% of it's glaciers. 2020 isn't that far away either, and then there will be no snow on the tallest mountain in Africa.
"While the volcano appears to be dormant on the inside, events on top of the mountain draw global attention. The top of the mountain has seen a retreat of the most recent covering of glaciers, with the most recent ice cap volume dropping by more than 80% [4]. In 2002, a study led by Ohio State University ice core paleoclimatologist Lonnie Thompson [5] predicted that ice on top of Africa's tallest peak would be gone between 2015 and 2020"
i've been in a bike accident before, but alone, i skinned my knee bad enough in denim jeans, to bleed through the denim.
a high speed bike collision is almost as dangerous to the cyclist as a car/bike collision. concrete is hard, and rough, and skin likes to cut open on it. not to mention bones like to break, possibly leaving you immobile. if you've go a cell phone on you you can call 911, if you manage to remain conscious. if you hit a person, at best they're going to be winded, at worst they'll be KOed as well.. is someone in a car going to notice and call 911 for you?
when will the next pedestrian with a cell phone notice and care to place that call?
I've been able to sprint a mountain bike up to 30 mph on flat level terrain after only 2 months of light training. 30 MPH is a Serious impact speed, and i was typically going 20 MPH.
remember, pedestrians taking a bike handle to the chest at 30 MPH don't get any of the benefits that a person in a car has, like seat belts, a roll cage or crumple zones. a 30 MPH impact is worse than taking a bullet, it's a lot more like a ninja taking a nunchuck to your chest.
I live in a town where they converted all the old train tracks into snowmobile/atv/bike trails. they're not paved, so riding them is harder than streets, though.
but yeah, the law is bicycles are supposed to travel on the road, but on the OPPOSITE side as cars, that way, the cyclist can always see oncoming traffic, and not get mowed over from behind.
in another small town i lived in they even had dedicated bike lanes, on some of the back streets. on both sides of the street even.
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I keep wondering why people buy 30" computer monitors... is there something wrong with a 1080p 46" TV set? they sell DVD to hdmi cables, and many sets have a PC input.
.5 ms the Samsung has 6ms the Westinghouse has 6.5ms
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824001098 $1,299 = 30"
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16889234003 $1,199 = 47"
that particular set has a PC connection, 2 dvi ports and 1 hdmi, and here's the kicker, the difference in response time?
i've heard before that Westinghouse displays are basically big PC monitors, with a TV tuner attached.
now i know, a HDTV generally only supports 1080p, 1080i, 720p, and 480i on the HD inputs, and since this one has PC inputs on the pc input it accepts 1920 x 1080, 640 x 480, 800 x 600, 1024 x 768 on the PC input... finding a RGB PC cable is easy, i used to specifically pick out PC monitors with replaceable cables, in case the cable got cut/kinked or the end pins broken.. so i already have cables from old monitors!
is it really worth it to support 2560x1600 resolution? especially since modern (single card setups) gaming cards can't even handle 1080p on modern game engines.. and even with multi card support, the CPU winds up being a limiting factor... OCing to 4 ghz with some extreme cooling solution, like the xp-120 or water cooling... is probably the only way to really push frame rates, even with a SLI/crossfire solution.
where i live, the women's prison is where all the computers get scrapped for recycling.
it's quite expensive to ship a useless computer across the ocean to be recycled, when they get shipped to china, they bury them in a landfill, where they then leech into the ground water.
very cool, so people worried about cars failing have nothing to worry about, every time you hit a pot hole, the tin whiskers are all going to fall off!
perhaps we need to put 'dual shock' systems in lead free soldier devices to knock free the tin whiskers.
i found the page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solder
""Tin Whiskers" were a problem with early electronic solders which were coincidentally lead-free, and lead was initially added in part to eliminate them. These problems are negligible in modern alloys,[citation needed]"
the only metal I've heard of as being whisker free is lead, though, even gold silver and copper can whisker.
"$100M electronic devices"
that's why they cost 100 million, they're designed to last 30 years and in space, where they get hit by hard radiation, and where heat is very hard to dissipate.
he might mean http://nepp.nasa.gov/whisker/reference/tech_papers/2007-brusse-metal-whiskers.pdf page 5 where a '0.5% to 1%' lead coating prevents whiskers. the source is cited on wikipedia.
ROSH laws require less than 0.1% though... i think they need to rethink that on lead, if 1% lead stops whiskering, it's well worth it.
cadmium is also banned, and was the first metal to ever verify whiskering. chromate actually accelerates whiskering, so finding an additive that is better than lead might be hard.
i tried google shopping to find a paladin tools ethernet checking tool, and they were all over $40!
my multimeter cost $12, sure it takes a few minutes to check each wire for cross-talk and signal, (64 wire checks) but they're all in the same multimeter setting.
i have a NiB episode 1 pod racer from taco bell what's that worth?
but that's affordable! that stuff is rated for slightly better than cat6 speeds, and only 50 cents a foot, but not quite cat 6a which generally runs about $1 a foot (a little more, not much though)
ironic you called cat 6 cable 'cat5' the wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_5_cable clears up the difference (just the 'rated' mhz of the cable) although, the only real reason to buy cat6a is for 10 Gbit ethernet. cat 5 cable was usually unsuitable for gigabit ethernet which was why cat5e came along , and then they went to cat 6 to make gigabit ethernet practical for long hauls.
anyways, if you're going to rip people off selling a very short ethernet cable (with directional arrows LOL that is a joke in and of itself.) at least make it cat 6a so they can run 10 gigabit ethernet..
BTW I'm still using a vintage 4 channel Dolby surround stereo that my folks got on clearance when all the new 5 channel dolby pro logic units came on the market. there is Nothing Wrong with the unit, i have even put DVD audio through it, and it still sounds just fine, in fact, it sounds better to me, because dolby 5 and dolby 5.1 systems make 'voices' extremely hard to hear over sound effects, when a dvd player down mixes to stereo, then the stereo signal is up mixed to dolby surround the sound effects are quieter than with a true 5.1 sound system...
the reason they made the sound effects so loud was so that people could hear the speakers behind them, the critical flaw of the dolby 4 speaker systems was the rear level was almost unrecognizable from the front channels (even when you maxed the rear level volume) making people wonder what they paid for...
but the main reason i use the stereo, is because it has a load of audio and video channels, and has a remote, so i can switch from one sound/video feed to another quickly, and without having to get up.
yeah they do, but it's annoying using a multi-meter to verify the integrity of the Ethernet cable every time the plastic tab breaks off..
USB 2.0 added the ability to draw up to 1.5amps for charging capabilities (the minimum is 100 milliamp). usb 3.0 could up the amperage even more, but again, usb will only ever put out 5 volt DC.
fortunately there are a lot of devices that can run off 5 volt DC, so usb charging instead of wall brick is starting to take off. it's much cheaper to power off usb than to include a 'cheap' wall brick. only window's implementation of usb is 'broken' so that a device needs a device driver and must be in 'active' mode to charge.
besides, if you design the device to charge off usb, you can then 'sell' a brick that costs extra and not include one for the 'price' of the device. both saving money, and adding a revenue stream.
I'm not a business owner, but i am paranoid, especially about computer viruses.
I've got a nice approach right now to always keep my drives clean. it's an old IDE hdd, that has a clean install of windows with just the basics. it happens to be a maxtor, so i can use the 'max blast' software. seagate owns maxtor now, though and seagate has the same nice drive utility suite. most HDD vendors offer a comparable suite. but, since i am paranoid, i don't use these 'windows' solutions to purge a drive. i use darik's boot and nuke.
as for where i keep my valuable data? dvd-roms, and possibly on a usb HDD, in the event that i even think an infection has taken place, i dump all my data to a linux drive, format every windows drive, including the USB one i use for backups when a dvd-rom isn't enough.
the usb drive never sees a windows system that is connected to the net, and i use separate windows drives, for playing online games, and for playing movies/backing up dvds. the dvd system is never on the net either. for a while i was using diff, and linux to verify my system wasn't being compromised, but that takes a lot of disc space, especially if you keep all the old files, and it doesn't scan problems that can occur within the NTFS itself, there is a program called ntfs clone for linux that can check the metadata for infections, but with my new ability to wipe my system clean within 30 minutes, tops and then only have to configure a few things i left unconfigured...
well, it may not be as impressive a system as what 'enterprise' users use, but i can clean a system, even wipe it's bios, (i've had to do that before, when a system was rooted for a long time) without using anything microsoft based... the only problem, is vista, vista needs it's CD/DVD media when it's been copied by HDD utilities.
that will be annoying, but knowing that at any given moment i can clean my systems completely, without hackers being able to stop me, is something i really needed to have, even medicated.
"Sometimes all a properly enforced law can do is reduce the frequency of an event."
but that's not what (insert group that wants draconian laws passed here) said! what gets me is they say 'our children will be safer, people will be able to sleep at night without worrying about X Y or Z...
the people trying to push draconian laws forget that as Americans, we're supposed to have Freedom. the founders of America strongly believed it was better 9 guilty men walked free than one innocent man be hanged. draconian laws can 'halt' crimes but anything less is just 'the best we can prevent these things, without destroying liberty and freedom.'
it really really bugs me when people claim so and so a law is going to 'make everything all right' this is why people get pissed off at the RIAA trying to sue everyone, and force draconian anti-copyright infringement laws...
this is America, and as long as everyone is allowed a fair and impartial trial, the true sociopaths capable of repeated rape, murder, and molestation will have just as much a chance at walking free as an innocent person who was taken without enough real evidence. all they have to do is learn to destroy the evidence better than the cops can find real evidence.
DNA fingerprinting has been labeled a 'huge' success, but even that hasn't caused a dent in murder rates. all you need to learn is there is a chemical that can destroy DNA, and not leave a 'corpse' or living breathing human witness behind.
sure 'cleaning' up a crime scene has become exponentially harder with new DNA technology, but it will never be impossible to get away with murder.
A common misconception: Child porn laws have generally been expanded - at least here in Scandinavia - to also include paintings, drawings and text, and non-nude photos "interpreted" as raunchy. But the public believes that child porn == abuse pictures. They tried to do that here in the US too, the supreme court struck down the law that made 'drawings' child porn.
the reason? the Simpsons. someone tipped off out media overlords that the wording of a law, would make fox liable for providing massive massive amounts of 'child porn' in the form of bart simpsons 'artist rendered' butt.
all hail the democratic process of out all powerful media overlords, for protecting us from a ridiculous law that would make a yellow butt that only vaguely looks like a butt child porn.
the coca leaf is .8% cocaine, sucrose is about 3% of the sugar cane plant, so you need about 3x the acreage to produce coca. the coca plant itself can live for up to 40 years, whereas sugarcane is planted from clippings, a costly expensive process, the wiki isn't conclusive on how often cane can be 'harvested' but the maximum is 10 harvests.
cocaine is traditionally grown in tropic mountain regions with long growing seasons... but the 'preferred' cocaine grows in slightly dryer regions, this means potentially that coca can grow in regions where sugar cane cannot because cane is a very water hungry plant.
with all the variables, if coca was legal it might just well be priced around the cost of sugar. but most likely it would be much higher, although if prohibition forces had never made it illegal I'm sure coca-cola would have done their best to make it as cheap as sugar. at least for themselves.
so in Singapore they all abuse RX drugs.
this is better how? it's actually happening in America now too, why? they don't have mandatory sentencing for having a bottle of OxyContin with your name on it.
"If you can cut off the buyer from the seller, you can make a dent in the problem."
the fundamental flaw with that argument is that laws can change human behavior.
let's step away from the pedophilia rates, because there just aren't good statistics globally for this problem, and switch to something i can quickly draw statistics for.
Let's switch to homicide. Right up there with the world's oldest profession, homicide is so important, it's the first thing humans do, after they get kicked out of paradise (cain and abel)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_murder_rate
now, let's see, murder has been illegal for as long as i can remember, i think that cain and abel reference is a good cornerstone for about when murder became illegal, in the stone age.
so with all out modern technology, surly such an old, such a fundamental problem has gotten BETTER hasn't it? well, the number jumps around A LOT the important thing is that per capita, homicide rates have not ever really made much of a downward run, they've been higher than they are now, but they really don't want to drop below 5 per 100,000 people, in the past 100 years of record keeping...
so now magically laws are 'supposed' to protect our kids from pedophiles when they can't stop 5 people per every 100,000 from dying every single year?
but it never ceases to amaze me, the people who think 'they're making a dent in crime' they think we as humans will stop killing each other, stop raping women or children, just because of a few words on a piece of paper.
if you want to protect your kids from pedophiles you damn well better have a better strategy than 'the government will protect us with their vorpal law + 12 against pedophiles!' that's all i'm saying.
but you can see why a person trusting the data on the gromacs page would try to run it on a PS3 rather than on some cheap wintel box from an oem? what if their department head is a big wintel bigot? not an AMD machine under the roof unless it belongs to someone besides the university?
"Seriously, what are they really hoping to accomplish with this act? Has it done any significant good?"
i think the whole point, is pandering, positioning, and of course, legislating e-mail the the point where nobody running a legitimate business would think of sending unsolicited e-mails without contracting through a 'professional' spam mail company.
so in other words, it's done nothing but make the spam industry more profitable, while pretending to have improved the situation when it has done nothing of the like.
personally, spamcop, founded in 1998 is the only real anti-spam tool that has Ever worked for me.
some spammers try to fight back against regular spamcop users, I've even been signed up to mailing lists that don't require e-mail verification by spammers because of my use of spamcop. but now that organized crime is involved in spam, they send me Less spam from compromised systems, so that network admins don't get informed of these spamming/scams...
if enough people used spamcop, organized crime would have to think of a way around it, but the types of people who report spam know about internet scams in the first place, so they know which list to put my e-mail address on, based on which e-mails i report to spamcop.
http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/climate/GCremote3.html
I'm tending to think though that the '5 degree' was projected future warming, in Fahrenheit for the next 100 years of human global weather change.
if 80% of the ice on Kilimanjaro melts from 1 degree of change, imagine what 5 degrees is going to do!
well, i just finished reading the wiki, apparently Jupiter cooled, then warmed fairly quickly after the shoemaker levy impact, much faster than scientists predicted. it's possible that shoemaker levy kicked up green house gases, but if it had the effects should have showed up sooner, rather than later. unless the global warming was a gradual process cause by a slow, chain reaction caused by the particulate gradually altering the atmosphere of jupiter.
still, it's more likely there was some other cause for jupiter warming, after all the sunspot issue would tend to indicate the sun is putting out less energy, not more.
"Second, while the warming of Jupiter can be explained by increases in solar output, the warming of Earth can not."
no clearly, the jovians are all driving SUVs too, that must be it, it couldn't possibly be comet shoemaker levy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Shoemaker-Levy_9 increasing the atmospheric density of Jupiter, causing a cascade of global warming... remember, earth is full of dust, Jupiter is full of gases, some of them in liquid form. a comet impact might well have the opposite effect (global warming) rather than the hypothetical global cooling of such an impact on earth.
"that's my favorite part of global warming. They are all worried about a 3,000 year old ice shelf collapsing."
personally, i like mount Kilimanjaro myself. losing 80% of it's glaciers. 2020 isn't that far away either, and then there will be no snow on the tallest mountain in Africa.
"While the volcano appears to be dormant on the inside, events on top of the mountain draw global attention. The top of the mountain has seen a retreat of the most recent covering of glaciers, with the most recent ice cap volume dropping by more than 80% [4]. In 2002, a study led by Ohio State University ice core paleoclimatologist Lonnie Thompson [5] predicted that ice on top of Africa's tallest peak would be gone between 2015 and 2020"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Kilimanjaro
"odds are we'll both be fine."
i've been in a bike accident before, but alone, i skinned my knee bad enough in denim jeans, to bleed through the denim.
a high speed bike collision is almost as dangerous to the cyclist as a car/bike collision. concrete is hard, and rough, and skin likes to cut open on it. not to mention bones like to break, possibly leaving you immobile. if you've go a cell phone on you you can call 911, if you manage to remain conscious. if you hit a person, at best they're going to be winded, at worst they'll be KOed as well.. is someone in a car going to notice and call 911 for you?
when will the next pedestrian with a cell phone notice and care to place that call?
I've been able to sprint a mountain bike up to 30 mph on flat level terrain after only 2 months of light training. 30 MPH is a Serious impact speed, and i was typically going 20 MPH.
remember, pedestrians taking a bike handle to the chest at 30 MPH don't get any of the benefits that a person in a car has, like seat belts, a roll cage or crumple zones. a 30 MPH impact is worse than taking a bullet, it's a lot more like a ninja taking a nunchuck to your chest.
I live in a town where they converted all the old train tracks into snowmobile/atv/bike trails. they're not paved, so riding them is harder than streets, though.
but yeah, the law is bicycles are supposed to travel on the road, but on the OPPOSITE side as cars, that way, the cyclist can always see oncoming traffic, and not get mowed over from behind.
in another small town i lived in they even had dedicated bike lanes, on some of the back streets. on both sides of the street even.