As the saying goes, this'll happen right after we're all typing in Esperanto on our Dvorak keyboards talking about the new flat tax....in metric.:)
I prefer a lunar calendar, 13 28-day months, with an extra 'New Year's Day' which could be of variable length to workt he kinks out with leap second-type adjusting on that day, every year. No more leap nonsense of adding days to some months in some years, etc. Plus, to be patriotic, we could call this new month 'Liberty.':)
Quarters are rather arbitrarily done these days, anyway - fiscal quarters aren't quite what one would expect, plus with months not being equal, the end of a quarter can fall on a different day of the year than the previous year. Any software that needs to calculate quarters and such could still do so without having to know the name of a month - just keep calculating by day of th e year, no biggie. Not having to calculate leap days/years would certainly make things easier in the long run.
Plus a new campaign to change all that software would help create another boom in our industry, much like the Y2K projects did. (I think the economic stimulus of the late 90s was caused as much by upgrades for Y2K & internet-capable hardware as much as anything else. Upgrading for one, might as well upgrade for everything else.)
If you liked the BG miniseries from 2003, you're going to like the new series. I've been...ahem...acquiring them online, since they're already playing in the UK, and they're just as good as the miniseries. Yay!
If you liked Sci-Fi Channel's Earthsea, you'll gonna love "Anonymous Rex.";)
Two years ago, it had gotten to the point that I was getting over 200 pieces of spam a day, and not the yummy kind that comes in a tin. Before initiating an email address change, I decided to try an experiment: see if clicking those unsubscribe links actually did anything. So, for one week, I followed the unsubscribe instructions on every piece of spam I got. The result: a 2/3 reduction in spam. That's pretty significant, but hardly worth the effort in my case, as I was still getting dozens of piece of spam a day, and unless you keep up with the unsubscribing, it just goes back up to the previous level within a few weeks, anyway.
So, yeah, you CAN reduce the amount of spam, but it becomes a regular maintenance task every day, and really isn't worth it in the end.
My advice: get your own domain and handle your own email accounts. Create special ones that simply forward to your main email address, to use on sites that require an email address for full functionality, and when you start getting spam, you know where it came from, and can shut that particular email forwarder down. It's a bit of a pain, but a LOT LESS pain than trying to unsubscribe from spam.
Obviously, anti spam tools like bayesian filters and what-not are always a good idea, but can let spam get through, and can block some wanted emails.
No, because the source is still a fossil fuel, and requires some really 'fun' mining processes to extract. Rather like saying an electric car is perfectly green without thinking about how the electricity was produced in the first place.
Most hydrogen _is_ currently extracted from fossil fuels. Natural gas, in fact, rather than splitting it out of water.
Except that the sea level won't rise if the ice caps melt. Ice displaces more volume than water.
That's not what was shown in the documentary 'Waterworld'...and hey, if melted polar ice caps means a world with Kevin Costner with gills, well then, bring it on! I loves me a good freak show.
Because back then, these big-ass creatures called 'dinosaurs' roamed the earth, and when they went swimming, it caused the sea level to rise.
Simple, really.
Oh yeah, plus sponges hadn't yet been invented.
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Also, the supposition is only valid if you also assume that every competent researcher in the HIV/AIDS field is in on the conspiracy, and thus is not _willing_ to make a real cure, rather than un_able_.
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To quote the late great Bill Hicks, when there's a one shot cure for AIDs they'll be fucking in the streets.
And then shortly thereafter people will remember they never DID get around to curing Herpes. Oops.
That's only the super-duper high end version, though - this is an entire family of cards, some as low as $249.
I like the new low-power 2D mode. Combine that with a Pentium M desktop system (more rare than an ATI Platinum Edition card), and you could have a very nice low power system. If wishes were fishes...
Speaking of virus scanners, I've got the new v7 of AVG's free edition on my newly-installed system, and found something odd. Some virus infections require Grisoft's "vcleaner.exe" program (from their website) to clean infections. Strangely, this also scans the entire system, and found (& fixed!) some things AVG itself didn't even find. Bizarre.
I think one's first programming language should also be a strongly typed language, else you'll never be able to troubleshoot Perl. It's the same reason why JavaScript shouldn't be your first language.
The problem is that there aren't going to be any chipsets with any more than 20 PCIe lanes, so once you split an x16 off from that, that leaves only 4 left. If you have one x4 slot and 1 x16, that's it, you're done.
I don't know if the x16 graphics slot is handled differently than other PCIe slots. If so, you'd have to manage that somehow, as the upcoming SLI mobos have done. Really, I'd rather see chipsets with more than 20 PCIe lanes. I'd like a mobo with an x16 for graphics, say 2 x4 slots, and 2 1x slots. That adds up to 26 lanes, not counting bandwidth for anything else like onboard LAN, audio, etc.
Stay tuned for the new quad-card cash-vacuum, coming soon.
Interestingly, that might even work. According to the tests I saw (Anandtech or TechReport, can't remember), the PCIe videocards are only using about 4x of the available 16x anyway, so even with dual cards, they're only using half of the available PCIe lanes, so if they can figure out how to do it, quad cards _could_ work, in theory.
Not that you'd find enough suckers with enough money to make it worthwile, I bet.:)
I just wish my recently-purchased 5900XT wasn't so bad at DirectX 9. I only (currently) play an OpenGL came (BZFlag!), anyway, but I'd like to have the option of playing DX9 games at reasonable framefrates in the future. I guess a 6600GT is in my future, somewhere.
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FYI - low sulphur diesel fuel will be mandated in the U.S. in 2006, so hopefully we can get some of those better VW diesel engines.
Too bad VW is about to _seriously_ uglify their Jettas with the upcoming model. *sigh*
Oh, and they're _still_ not offering 4Motion (AWD) on Jettas in the U.S.
Bastards.
Somebody call Bruce Willis!
what is most scary is that American copyright owners can mobilize foreign police to do their bidding
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Actually what they do is send out a multinational enforcement team.
I think their name is "Rainbow," but don't quote me on that.
As the saying goes, this'll happen right after we're all typing in Esperanto on our Dvorak keyboards talking about the new flat tax. ...in metric. :)
:)
I prefer a lunar calendar, 13 28-day months, with an extra 'New Year's Day' which could be of variable length to workt he kinks out with leap second-type adjusting on that day, every year. No more leap nonsense of adding days to some months in some years, etc. Plus, to be patriotic, we could call this new month 'Liberty.'
Quarters are rather arbitrarily done these days, anyway - fiscal quarters aren't quite what one would expect, plus with months not being equal, the end of a quarter can fall on a different day of the year than the previous year. Any software that needs to calculate quarters and such could still do so without having to know the name of a month - just keep calculating by day of th e year, no biggie. Not having to calculate leap days/years would certainly make things easier in the long run.
Plus a new campaign to change all that software would help create another boom in our industry, much like the Y2K projects did. (I think the economic stimulus of the late 90s was caused as much by upgrades for Y2K & internet-capable hardware as much as anything else. Upgrading for one, might as well upgrade for everything else.)
Okay, that is all.
Look at the _bones_!
Definitely a good idea to not import a PSP at this time. Wait for the US release; hopefully they'll have it fixed by then.
Still, it _could_ make a handy concealed weapon...hmmm...
If you liked the BG miniseries from 2003, you're going to like the new series. I've been...ahem...acquiring them online, since they're already playing in the UK, and they're just as good as the miniseries. Yay!
;)
If you liked Sci-Fi Channel's Earthsea, you'll gonna love "Anonymous Rex."
Two years ago, it had gotten to the point that I was getting over 200 pieces of spam a day, and not the yummy kind that comes in a tin. Before initiating an email address change, I decided to try an experiment: see if clicking those unsubscribe links actually did anything. So, for one week, I followed the unsubscribe instructions on every piece of spam I got. The result: a 2/3 reduction in spam. That's pretty significant, but hardly worth the effort in my case, as I was still getting dozens of piece of spam a day, and unless you keep up with the unsubscribing, it just goes back up to the previous level within a few weeks, anyway.
So, yeah, you CAN reduce the amount of spam, but it becomes a regular maintenance task every day, and really isn't worth it in the end.
My advice: get your own domain and handle your own email accounts. Create special ones that simply forward to your main email address, to use on sites that require an email address for full functionality, and when you start getting spam, you know where it came from, and can shut that particular email forwarder down. It's a bit of a pain, but a LOT LESS pain than trying to unsubscribe from spam.
Obviously, anti spam tools like bayesian filters and what-not are always a good idea, but can let spam get through, and can block some wanted emails.
YMMV (but probably won't).
No, because the source is still a fossil fuel, and requires some really 'fun' mining processes to extract. Rather like saying an electric car is perfectly green without thinking about how the electricity was produced in the first place.
Most hydrogen _is_ currently extracted from fossil fuels. Natural gas, in fact, rather than splitting it out of water.
Now what are we going to DO about it?
No idea, but I bet it'll require Bruce Willis.
One word: reincarnation.
You'd best learn to plan ahead, unless you want to come back as something that can withstand the new climate, which likely won't be human.
Except that the sea level won't rise if the ice caps melt. Ice displaces more volume than water.
That's not what was shown in the documentary 'Waterworld'...and hey, if melted polar ice caps means a world with Kevin Costner with gills, well then, bring it on! I loves me a good freak show.
Some life flourishes in places that are deadly to us humans.
I say we kill such life now, for the good of the species. 'Anonymous Rex,' my ass!
Because back then, these big-ass creatures called 'dinosaurs' roamed the earth, and when they went swimming, it caused the sea level to rise.
Simple, really.
Oh yeah, plus sponges hadn't yet been invented.
Also, the supposition is only valid if you also assume that every competent researcher in the HIV/AIDS field is in on the conspiracy, and thus is not _willing_ to make a real cure, rather than un_able_.
To quote the late great Bill Hicks, when there's a one shot cure for AIDs they'll be fucking in the streets.
And then shortly thereafter people will remember they never DID get around to curing Herpes. Oops.
And none of these things address ATI's real problem: accelerated 3D Linux drivers. *sigh*
That's only the super-duper high end version, though - this is an entire family of cards, some as low as $249.
I like the new low-power 2D mode. Combine that with a Pentium M desktop system (more rare than an ATI Platinum Edition card), and you could have a very nice low power system. If wishes were fishes...
Excellent point. A rock in space, Iraq in the desert...same diff. :)
Speaking of virus scanners, I've got the new v7 of AVG's free edition on my newly-installed system, and found something odd. Some virus infections require Grisoft's "vcleaner.exe" program (from their website) to clean infections. Strangely, this also scans the entire system, and found (& fixed!) some things AVG itself didn't even find. Bizarre.
I think one's first programming language should also be a strongly typed language, else you'll never be able to troubleshoot Perl. It's the same reason why JavaScript shouldn't be your first language.
:)
Remember the quote, "Perl is Internet Yiddish."
The problem is that there aren't going to be any chipsets with any more than 20 PCIe lanes, so once you split an x16 off from that, that leaves only 4 left. If you have one x4 slot and 1 x16, that's it, you're done.
:)
I don't know if the x16 graphics slot is handled differently than other PCIe slots. If so, you'd have to manage that somehow, as the upcoming SLI mobos have done. Really, I'd rather see chipsets with more than 20 PCIe lanes. I'd like a mobo with an x16 for graphics, say 2 x4 slots, and 2 1x slots. That adds up to 26 lanes, not counting bandwidth for anything else like onboard LAN, audio, etc.
Maybe nForce5?
Stay tuned for the new quad-card cash-vacuum, coming soon.
:)
Interestingly, that might even work. According to the tests I saw (Anandtech or TechReport, can't remember), the PCIe videocards are only using about 4x of the available 16x anyway, so even with dual cards, they're only using half of the available PCIe lanes, so if they can figure out how to do it, quad cards _could_ work, in theory.
Not that you'd find enough suckers with enough money to make it worthwile, I bet.
I just wish my recently-purchased 5900XT wasn't so bad at DirectX 9. I only (currently) play an OpenGL came (BZFlag!), anyway, but I'd like to have the option of playing DX9 games at reasonable framefrates in the future. I guess a 6600GT is in my future, somewhere.
I've found a great solution to this problem!
No, you haven't.
Well, not if they like gravy.
EA Executive #1: "The employees are revolting!"
EA Executive #2: *sigh* "Tell me about it!"