that's because the majority of people don't use drugs.
Correction: The majority of people don't use illegal drugs. Almost everyone uses legal (but just as potentially harmful) alternatives, such as caffeine, sugar, alcohol, and tobacco.
Database query finds Bob as the person who had a $10 bill last, having received it as part of his change from McDonalds (he was identified there by the ID cards in his wallet which were close enough to be read).
You're assuming that McDonalds will have an RFID scanner. Will this be the case in Europe? I don't know.
I just read an article which states the European Central Bank are quietly planning on introducing RFID in all european bank notes by 2005. Bang goes the anonimity afforded by cash transactions.
Why? The RFID tag is keyed to the money, not to you. I'd imagine the tag, if scanned, will respond that it's a 10-euro (or whatever), serial number BlahBlahBlah. It can't also respond "Psst! Hey, coppers! I'm being used to buy a dime bag!"...
Yeah, and biking to work is more environmentally friendly than driving, but that's not enough of a reason to switch.
Well, it would be, at least for me (I only live 4 miles from work), except that with the traffic and neighborhoods I'd have to ride through, I'd probably have a 50/50 shot at survival each day.
If you RTFA you'd find that Microsoft is only "looking very seriously" at this idea, that it would not apply to business users of XP (since they want careful control of the patching of their machines), and that it would be possible to opt-out from the automatic updates.
Um, isn't this how it works now? When I got my current notebook w/XP Pro on it, I recall being asked whether I wanted to have updates automatically installed, automatically downloaded but not installed (the option I chose), or to simply be notified that updates are available.
In my home town (pop. 325) the power often goes out in the winter. When it does, most of the time they get the big old diesel generator up and running and the town has power again within an hour or so.
Is there some reason why cities can't have relatively local (say, block by block) emergency backup for things like power?
You've got to be kidding, right? There are probably 325 people living on my block. Just to handle my neighborhood would require 50-100 "big ol' diesel generators", all of which would need to be fueled and maintained to a state of constant readiness in order to be any good - not to mention the entire town of some 200,000 people (and that's actually a town, not a city - they're not even required to supply police etc., never mind backup electricity!).
I thought China needed to control the exponential growth of their population, do they really need that? They should sell the technology to the state of Florida instead...
Why, don't they have enough genetic anomalies in Florida already?
The only thing funny is that the USians don't know what we mean. While you guys have pulling out soggy wads of green from your washing machines here in Australia we've been successfully laundering our plastic notes since the 80's.
"Soggy wads" - that would seem to imply that you think our money is made of paper. It's not; it's a fabric made of cotton and linen fibers. US notes will survive a trip through the washer and dryer.
If the PO worker worked at a job like that long enough, I think it is a safe assumption to make that the employee could handle 1 piece of mail per second.
If a PO worker worked at a job like that long enough, I think it is a safe assumption that one day he'd go buy a gun and... um, never mind.
And just how is that insightful? I mean, use the right tool for the right job.
Hmm, let's see where this goes. Your advice, if he wants to run games, is that he should run Windows. OK. He finishes his game, and now he wants to balance his checkbook. He's got Quicken (let's assume), and he's already running Windows, so why should he shut down and fire up his Linux box? Nah, just do it in Windows. Then he needs to write a letter - why switch machines? Just run OO.org on the Windows machine...
You see where this is going? Most people can do more of what they want to do, on a Windows box, than on a Linux box. And that includes games, like it or not. And as long as that's the case, there's little reason for anyone to run Linux, except for their own religious issues.
ZX-Spectrum. Ha! That was one overpowered machine. We used to own a ZX-81 with 1K (one kilobyte) RAM, and a keyboard with no keys (well, at least not real ones).
LLLLLLLUXURY! I did my first programming on a TI-57 calculator.
That's comforting to know. I've seen some Sonata reviews at "quiet PC" sites, and they all say it's noisier than they expected. What they "expected" is hard to tell, but since these are quiet freaks, they probably have unrealistic expectations from mass market consumer cases.
Well, they were probably running six case fans, with some 7500rpm CPU fan, a video chip fan, and a motherboard chipset fan. Not much a case can do to quiet all that down.:) I've got a retail CPU (Athlon 2000+) on a stock fanless motherboard, with no extra case fans besides the 120mm that comes with the case.
My new system (next week) is going to be an Antec Sonata. I want quiet dammit!
I built a system using that case, about a month ago. It is so, so quiet. If I put my head halfway between the Sonata system and my regular desktop (a Dell Latitude notebook), they produce about the same noise level. I'm talking quiet here.
They and Metallica should get together an throw a "free benefit concert" for promoting "fair protections for intellectual property." They could send out mailers to their dwindelling fanbase, and invite critics to come too. And then just when the show is about to start Darl McBride and Lars could get in their matching gold plated limos and start running over the assembled crowd.
Yeah, I can picture that... meanwhile, Hetfield is shouting "SCO, GOOD! Linux, *BAAAAAD*!" while he sets himself on fire...
Why does such an obvious high-quality product always get ignored?
IMO, one reason is that they've missed the boat on a new trend in PC homebuilding - low noise. The top PCP&C PSUs are great from an electrical standpoint, but they're noisy. Meanwhile Antec, for example, has focused on PSUs that are high in quality and low-noise as well.
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that's because the majority of people don't use drugs.
Correction: The majority of people don't use illegal drugs. Almost everyone uses legal (but just as potentially harmful) alternatives, such as caffeine, sugar, alcohol, and tobacco.
I'm kind of surprised that the Texas constitution doesn't proscribe foreigners like Bush from being governor.
You mean the way the New York constitution proscribes foreigners like Clinton from being our US Senator? ...oh, wait. :-/
Database query finds Bob as the person who had a $10 bill last, having received it as part of his change from McDonalds (he was identified there by the ID cards in his wallet which were close enough to be read).
You're assuming that McDonalds will have an RFID scanner. Will this be the case in Europe? I don't know.
I just read an article which states the European Central Bank are quietly planning on introducing RFID in all european bank notes by 2005. Bang goes the anonimity afforded by cash transactions.
Why? The RFID tag is keyed to the money, not to you. I'd imagine the tag, if scanned, will respond that it's a 10-euro (or whatever), serial number BlahBlahBlah. It can't also respond "Psst! Hey, coppers! I'm being used to buy a dime bag!"...
Yeah, and biking to work is more environmentally friendly than driving, but that's not enough of a reason to switch.
Well, it would be, at least for me (I only live 4 miles from work), except that with the traffic and neighborhoods I'd have to ride through, I'd probably have a 50/50 shot at survival each day.
cranked up the A/C to 15 degrees
Yeah, I wish. Seems like the air on flights these days keeps getting more and more stale... :-/
That reason is that we are too fucking stupid to do anything except what gratifies us the most.
Gee, you should work for the Sierra Club as a PR flack.
If you RTFA you'd find that Microsoft is only "looking very seriously" at this idea,
that it would not apply to business users of XP (since they want careful control
of the patching of their machines), and that it would be possible to opt-out from
the automatic updates.
Um, isn't this how it works now? When I got my current notebook w/XP Pro on it, I recall being asked whether I wanted to have updates automatically installed, automatically downloaded but not installed (the option I chose), or to simply be notified that updates are available.
In my home town (pop. 325) the power often goes out in the winter. When it does, most of the time they get the big old diesel generator up and running and the town has power again within an hour or so.
Is there some reason why cities can't have relatively local (say, block by block) emergency backup for things like power?
You've got to be kidding, right? There are probably 325 people living on my block. Just to handle my neighborhood would require 50-100 "big ol' diesel generators", all of which would need to be fueled and maintained to a state of constant readiness in order to be any good - not to mention the entire town of some 200,000 people (and that's actually a town, not a city - they're not even required to supply police etc., never mind backup electricity!).
I thought China needed to control the exponential growth of their population, do they really need that? They should sell the technology to the state of Florida instead
Why, don't they have enough genetic anomalies in Florida already?
Acronym, non-obvious pun, obscure reference?
It's Jason Mewes' new gig, now that Kevin Smith has killed off Jay & Silent Bob. "Snootch to the Nutch! BONGGGG!"
Indeed, if we were not meant to eat animals - why are they made out of meat?
And why does meat taste soooo gooooood...? <drool>
All this time, and still no online checking/bill payment?
The only thing funny is that the USians don't know what we mean. While you guys have pulling out soggy wads of green from your washing machines here in Australia we've been successfully laundering our plastic notes since the 80's.
"Soggy wads" - that would seem to imply that you think our money is made of paper. It's not; it's a fabric made of cotton and linen fibers. US notes will survive a trip through the washer and dryer.
> That's almost right, but off by $48 Million.
A quote from the site in question:
In 2002, the Postal Service recognized a revenue forgone reimbursement of $48 million to fund free mail for the blind and for overseas voting.
I think that's pretty fair, considering that FedEx and UPS don't provide free mail for the blind, or handle overseas voting, now, do they?
If the PO worker worked at a job like that long enough, I think it is a safe assumption to make that the employee could handle 1 piece of mail per second.
If a PO worker worked at a job like that long enough, I think it is a safe assumption that one day he'd go buy a gun and... um, never mind.
And just how is that insightful? I mean, use the right tool for the right job.
Hmm, let's see where this goes. Your advice, if he wants to run games, is that he should run Windows. OK. He finishes his game, and now he wants to balance his checkbook. He's got Quicken (let's assume), and he's already running Windows, so why should he shut down and fire up his Linux box? Nah, just do it in Windows. Then he needs to write a letter - why switch machines? Just run OO.org on the Windows machine...
You see where this is going? Most people can do more of what they want to do, on a Windows box, than on a Linux box. And that includes games, like it or not. And as long as that's the case, there's little reason for anyone to run Linux, except for their own religious issues.
> > Howard Dean is a socialist pig. Thank you.
> Care to elaborate?
Well, do you want elaboration on "socialist", or on "pig"?
ZX-Spectrum. Ha! That was one overpowered machine. We used to own a ZX-81 with 1K (one kilobyte) RAM, and a keyboard with no keys (well, at least not real ones).
LLLLLLLUXURY! I did my first programming on a TI-57 calculator.
That's comforting to know. I've seen some Sonata reviews at "quiet PC" sites, and they all say it's noisier than they expected. What they "expected" is hard to tell, but since these are quiet freaks, they probably have unrealistic expectations from mass market consumer cases.
Well, they were probably running six case fans, with some 7500rpm CPU fan, a video chip fan, and a motherboard chipset fan. Not much a case can do to quiet all that down. :) I've got a retail CPU (Athlon 2000+) on a stock fanless motherboard, with no extra case fans besides the 120mm that comes with the case.
This guy simply wanted to go home, and protect his country from what he viewed as US aggression.
Hawash is a US citizen. This is his country. If he felt otherwise, what was he doing here?
My new system (next week) is going to be an Antec Sonata. I want quiet dammit!
I built a system using that case, about a month ago. It is so, so quiet. If I put my head halfway between the Sonata system and my regular desktop (a Dell Latitude notebook), they produce about the same noise level. I'm talking quiet here.
They and Metallica should get together an throw a "free benefit concert" for promoting "fair protections for intellectual property." They could send out mailers to their dwindelling fanbase, and invite critics to come too. And then just when the show is about to start Darl McBride and Lars could get in their matching gold plated limos and start running over the assembled crowd.
Yeah, I can picture that... meanwhile, Hetfield is shouting "SCO, GOOD! Linux, *BAAAAAD*!" while he sets himself on fire...
Why does such an obvious high-quality product always get ignored?
IMO, one reason is that they've missed the boat on a new trend in PC homebuilding - low noise. The top PCP&C PSUs are great from an electrical standpoint, but they're noisy. Meanwhile Antec, for example, has focused on PSUs that are high in quality and low-noise as well.
I'll be sure to shed a tear for you next month when I'm there, driving my rented SUV between the golf course and the fountains of the Bellagio.