Advertising signs and such generally have the lights on for substantial periods of time and are not done for safety reasons. If it takes 3-5 minutes to come on at dusk NOBODY cares. I care if I can't turn the light on in my garage unless I plan ahead.
Ok, if they track so much information could they inform the airline what happened to my luggage? I was flying from Winnipeg, Canada to Chicago, Il; and on to Norfolk.
Somewhere in here United lost my luggage. They don't have a clue what they did with it.
If I thought I was being judged on moral grounds when I played a game I wouldn't play. There would be no point.
I believe I am ethical and moral in my real life, why the fuck would I want to be that way when playing a game? Isn't the point of a game to do things you would not ordinarily do.
And yeah, I killed some of the Little Sisters; after fighting a Big Daddy and getting my ass handed to me on a silver platter over and over again I figured they deserved it.
I believe some software can accurately identify the battery brand, assuming the chips aren't faked too. I'd probably worry less about a battery that didn't have a significant company logo, than one which did but I knew was fake. Putting fake logos on is rather underhanded, and I expect a company that would do that would cut a lot more corners as well.
Someone posted a PDF from www.taser.com; you should read it through. If you read it carefully you will discover that a side effect of being hit with a taser is disorientation, and agitation followed by eratice behavior. Pretty much a recipe for being hit with the taser again.
Oh yeah, repeated use of a taser, as well as prolonged discharge causes anesthetized pigs to stop breathing, the human volunteers were fine. Volunteers are likely to have been significantly less stressed that the average person getting hit by a taser.
After reading that document I suspect the manufacturer has a lot to answer for.
Tasers are being used, repeatedly, in circumstances where they are not appropriate. Tasers have their use; they are a much better and safer alternative when the only other option is shooting someone. They are safer for the target, bystanders, and the police. What they are not is a toy and a method to 'manage' a handcuffed suspect.
The other problem is the precise circumstances in which a taser are used may be leading to the fatalities. Some reports indicate that people acting violently on drugs, particularly cocaine are at a higher risk because of the drugs effect on the heart, combined with an electric jolt. It is entirely possible that other forms of stress also increase the risk of fatality and that could explain why zapping a few people in tests doesn't show a high risk; while the real world results aren't so nice and clean.
I figured that out after I was thinking about it later today.
2 of the installs were Upgrades, only the iMac was an Archive & Install and is the only one which exhibited it. On he other hand, the MacBook took a long time to recognize the harddrive to do the install to. no apparent reason. Ah well; Apple should fix the issues with the installer, but I'd generally have to agree it's pointless now with Leopard...
I've upgraded 3 Machines, all Intel based and haven't had any significant issues. I did however have a significant delay while doing the install on my iMac. It took about 30-45 minutes once the install application said "About a minute". Other than that delay everything went perfectly smooth.
Although I still have to upgrade my G5; and that could turn out differently.
5G? What a joke. I was concerned a few months ago when I deliberately exceeded the bandwidth cap my provider put on my internet. It was specified when I signed up that it was 50G/month. I downloaded 100G of data in about a week.
All data was downloaded from a Canadian Government website and was all perfectly legal and legit. (300dpi, calibrated maps of Canada at 1:50000 Scale)
I decided to double-check the bandwdith cap, and was pleasantly suprised to see that on my level of service it was doubled to 100G at some point in the previous year.
Free bonus on being a pessimist; if you're right then you can feel good about anticipating it. If you're wrong then the outcome is better than you expected, and is a good thing.
The numbers in the article are Apples to Oranges. Read between the lines of the article and what you find is: Microsoft is losing market share; which is pretty much opposite of what is implied. The truth is, the market has continued to grow and is slowly growing a little bit faster with regard to Linux and Mac OS X than Windows. They obviously have a long way to go to beat Microsoft.
The described results are about what I would expect.
I've had a Linux box hacked years ago and the guy that did it was trying to control a group of other machines with it. Nothing gives you command and control of a lot of machines like a nice *nix environment.
The ratio of compromised machines is probably 10:1 windows to linux, but the purpose of the compromised machine and it's importance is Linux first, Windows second.
Meanwhile, some of us have been using Bluetooth on OS X since 10.3 and never experienced significant issues. 3 different machines. G5, MacBook Pro (CD), and iMac Core Duo.
It's realtively standard practice in such a lawsuit to include every party and let the judge determine which ones are actually potentially liable or not.
The fact there are people who will whole heartedly disagree with me and swear all paintings are art the more I believe that the commercial art world has overridden common sense.
My statements about the game may have implied I thought 'good' was a requirement for art. It isn't. There is plenty of things I consider art which I do not like; however there are lots of things which are art in form (some abstract paintings come to mind), without having any artistic merit of any kind. And it is the lack of artistic merit which precludes them from being art, not their form.
I started playing Bioshock a few days ago, I'm enjoying the game (and find it kinda creepy). I wouldn't consider it art. The closest I've seen in a game I would consider art is Zelda: Twilight Princess. It has a compelling story, good graphics and was very enjoyable.
Bad news guys; Microsoft isn't the one with a bug causing the problem. Poor implementation yes, bug no.
For some bizarre reason Vista expects the address returned from the DHCP server to be broadcast, instead of sent via unicast packet. This is permitted in the specs and supporting the broadcast flag on the server is suggested. ("SHOULD", not "MUST" in the spec.).
When researching this I found 2 network types which required this, Infinibad and 1394 (Firewire). It looks to me like Microsoft picked the one which would (theoretically atleast) work on all network types, instead of only on a few.
Of course, this is a typical bad decision as it means that responses from a DHCP server with a lot of Vista clients will flood the network with broadcast responses, but hey, they arent know for making good decisions.
The truth is; and this goes for a wide-spectrum of political beliefs although I think it has a bias to the left...
Everybody thinks everybody else is just like themselves. They think that because they wouldn't choose to interfere with other peoples lives that people won't choose to interfere with theirs.
Then you get the far-right; the people who know that people will try to screw with their lives. They know this, because thats what they do. Of course, they also believe everyone else is just like them too. They tend to get paranoid when people aren't screwing with them.
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30 seconds at 0? What about at -40?
Advertising signs and such generally have the lights on for substantial periods of time and are not done for safety reasons. If it takes 3-5 minutes to come on at dusk NOBODY cares. I care if I can't turn the light on in my garage unless I plan ahead.
Ok, if they track so much information could they inform the airline what happened to my luggage? I was flying from Winnipeg, Canada to Chicago, Il; and on to Norfolk.
Somewhere in here United lost my luggage. They don't have a clue what they did with it.
If I thought I was being judged on moral grounds when I played a game I wouldn't play. There would be no point.
I believe I am ethical and moral in my real life, why the fuck would I want to be that way when playing a game? Isn't the point of a game to do things you would not ordinarily do.
And yeah, I killed some of the Little Sisters; after fighting a Big Daddy and getting my ass handed to me on a silver platter over and over again I figured they deserved it.
I believe some software can accurately identify the battery brand, assuming the chips aren't faked too. I'd probably worry less about a battery that didn't have a significant company logo, than one which did but I knew was fake. Putting fake logos on is rather underhanded, and I expect a company that would do that would cut a lot more corners as well.
Someone posted a PDF from www.taser.com; you should read it through. If you read it carefully you will discover that a side effect of being hit with a taser is disorientation, and agitation followed by eratice behavior. Pretty much a recipe for being hit with the taser again.
Oh yeah, repeated use of a taser, as well as prolonged discharge causes anesthetized pigs to stop breathing, the human volunteers were fine. Volunteers are likely to have been significantly less stressed that the average person getting hit by a taser.
After reading that document I suspect the manufacturer has a lot to answer for.
Tasers are being used, repeatedly, in circumstances where they are not appropriate. Tasers have their use; they are a much better and safer alternative when the only other option is shooting someone. They are safer for the target, bystanders, and the police. What they are not is a toy and a method to 'manage' a handcuffed suspect.
The other problem is the precise circumstances in which a taser are used may be leading to the fatalities. Some reports indicate that people acting violently on drugs, particularly cocaine are at a higher risk because of the drugs effect on the heart, combined with an electric jolt. It is entirely possible that other forms of stress also increase the risk of fatality and that could explain why zapping a few people in tests doesn't show a high risk; while the real world results aren't so nice and clean.
Windows Mobile is on 150 different phones; and every one of them sucks.
I figured that out after I was thinking about it later today.
2 of the installs were Upgrades, only the iMac was an Archive & Install and is the only one which exhibited it.
On he other hand, the MacBook took a long time to recognize the harddrive to do the install to. no apparent reason. Ah well; Apple should fix the issues with the installer, but I'd generally have to agree it's pointless now with Leopard...
I've upgraded 3 Machines, all Intel based and haven't had any significant issues. I did however have a significant delay while doing the install on my iMac. It took about 30-45 minutes once the install application said "About a minute". Other than that delay everything went perfectly smooth.
Although I still have to upgrade my G5; and that could turn out differently.
5G? What a joke. I was concerned a few months ago when I deliberately exceeded the bandwidth cap my provider put on my internet. It was specified when I signed up that it was 50G/month. I downloaded 100G of data in about a week.
All data was downloaded from a Canadian Government website and was all perfectly legal and legit. (300dpi, calibrated maps of Canada at 1:50000 Scale)
I decided to double-check the bandwdith cap, and was pleasantly suprised to see that on my level of service it was doubled to 100G at some point in the previous year.
Free bonus on being a pessimist; if you're right then you can feel good about anticipating it. If you're wrong then the outcome is better than you expected, and is a good thing.
Canadian copyright flows from the monarchy, to the government and then to us peons.
Add 2.5% (aprox) for the Credit Card transaction... love the banks.
CmdrTaco should go back to school.
The numbers in the article are Apples to Oranges. Read between the lines of the article and what you find is: Microsoft is losing market share; which is pretty much opposite of what is implied. The truth is, the market has continued to grow and is slowly growing a little bit faster with regard to Linux and Mac OS X than Windows. They obviously have a long way to go to beat Microsoft.
The described results are about what I would expect.
I've had a Linux box hacked years ago and the guy that did it was trying to control a group of other machines with it. Nothing gives you command and control of a lot of machines like a nice *nix environment.
The ratio of compromised machines is probably 10:1 windows to linux, but the purpose of the compromised machine and it's importance is Linux first, Windows second.
How the f*ck can you say they lost again in a recount when a recount was never performed?
They tallied up the totals twice; that isn't a recount.
Meanwhile, some of us have been using Bluetooth on OS X since 10.3 and never experienced significant issues.
3 different machines. G5, MacBook Pro (CD), and iMac Core Duo.
It's realtively standard practice in such a lawsuit to include every party and let the judge determine which ones are actually potentially liable or not.
I looked at the picture and was immediately reminded of actual NEWS FOOTAGE of suicide bombers in Israel.
Of all places to go visiting wearing 'artwork' like that a Federal build, or an Airport wouldn't be on my list. She is lucky she wasn't shot.
Not all books are art. Not all paintings qualify.
The fact there are people who will whole heartedly disagree with me and swear all paintings are art the more I believe that the commercial art world has overridden common sense.
My statements about the game may have implied I thought 'good' was a requirement for art. It isn't. There is plenty of things I consider art which I do not like; however there are lots of things which are art in form (some abstract paintings come to mind), without having any artistic merit of any kind. And it is the lack of artistic merit which precludes them from being art, not their form.
I started playing Bioshock a few days ago, I'm enjoying the game (and find it kinda creepy). I wouldn't consider it art.
The closest I've seen in a game I would consider art is Zelda: Twilight Princess. It has a compelling story, good graphics and was very enjoyable.
The drugs will be cheaper than ink, therefor there isn't enough of a market in it for HP.
PC Clock chips are amazingly bad and have been for 20+ years.
If they got any worse they would get the date wrong every other day.
Bad news guys; Microsoft isn't the one with a bug causing the problem. Poor implementation yes, bug no.
For some bizarre reason Vista expects the address returned from the DHCP server to be broadcast, instead of sent via unicast packet. This is permitted in the specs and supporting the broadcast flag on the server is suggested. ("SHOULD", not "MUST" in the spec.).
When researching this I found 2 network types which required this, Infinibad and 1394 (Firewire). It looks to me like Microsoft picked the one which would (theoretically atleast) work on all network types, instead of only on a few.
Of course, this is a typical bad decision as it means that responses from a DHCP server with a lot of Vista clients will flood the network with broadcast responses, but hey, they arent know for making good decisions.
The truth is; and this goes for a wide-spectrum of political beliefs although I think it has a bias to the left...
Everybody thinks everybody else is just like themselves. They think that because they wouldn't choose to interfere with other peoples lives that people won't choose to interfere with theirs.
Then you get the far-right; the people who know that people will try to screw with their lives. They know this, because thats what they do. Of course, they also believe everyone else is just like them too. They tend to get paranoid when people aren't screwing with them.