One overlooked aspect here is that there will be no transmission loss, because the turbines will generate the power right on the spot. That is, assuming the electric train line follows the turnpike's route.
Err, no? The annoying thing about UAC isnt how it looks, its how often and for what it pops up. In Kubuntu, I only see a sudo prompt when I already expect one, when installing new software or changing hardware configuration options. In Vista, UAC can open any time it wants, and often does.
How about UAC starts imitating better designed privilege escalation mechanisms from Linux or OS X? Of course, that would require a sensible architecture in which software can be installed by users, for themselves, without superuser permissions. And, unfortunately, it would need secure software as a basis to avoid needing unnecessary privileges to accomplish mundane tasks in insecure applications. Sorry Microsoft, you missed the boat on this one. The majority of Vista users have UAC turned off, and the majority of those who dont will turn it off as soon as they figure out how.
This is fun logic to apply to EULAs:) Amend them before agreeing. I always do. And sometimes when I am feeling especially bored I actually mail a copy of the amended agreement to the publisher. Sadly, I have never gotten a reply:(
Actually, they can give out any true facts, barring a confidentiality agreement. What they can't give out is opinions. Most HR departments have a policy in place to only give out employment dates because that is "safe", but many go farther. In the sales business I have encountered HR depts that will disclose performance information and such.
Assuming you live in a state with a small claims court, you would almost certainly be eligible for reimbursement for the relocation (I will assume you only spend a few thousand dollars) if you didn't get to see the contract after being given the job and before moving, particularly if any of the clauses in question were "unconscionable" in the judge's opinion (which this sort almost always are).
I admit I don't take as good care of my car as I should, but I'll take that bet... I had to have my emissions tested for a tag renewal last month. HC = 88 PPM, CO = 0.38%, CO2 = 13.6%. I am too lazy to find averages or baseline data, so you tell me how I did.
Why buy a hybrid for $15k that gets 50-60 MPG and needs $10k in new batteries every ten years when you can buy a 10-year-old economy gas or diesel car for $1k that gets 40-50 MPG? Yes, I drive a 1994 Geo Metro. I get 45/49 MPG on nothing but gas. I paid $1300 for it a couple of years ago. My alternative at the time was a diesel VW Rabbit, which gets similar mileage but is harder to maintain. My next car will be the Laremo, I hope. 157 MPG FTW.
What parent said. BSOD is *ALWAYS* the fault of the OS. Regardless of what 'triggered' the crash, if the OS stops functioning then it isnt doing its job* properly.
* The job of an OS is to manage the operations of all processes on the system.
Thanks for the reminder that my resume is out of date there, my current address shouldnt be much harder to find. Someone above mentioned my birthdate and mother's maiden name, you can come up with those with a little more work. I don't believe in identity theft. Identity borrowage, maybe. If some other guy is out there somewhere using all my info, what do I care? It's not me, and it doesn't impact me in the slightest. What you won't find online is my signature, which would be expensive and/or time consuming to convincingly fake even if you could. Ditto my fingerprints and retinal pattern. Double ditto my actual secret information, such as passwords and passphrases.
The first two are on my resume. The third on my profile with any number of online services. The fourth might be tricky, I wouldn't want to make it too easy for you:) For a hint, consider that the prefix on my SSN identifies where I was born.
My SSN is 427347246. This is not a secret. Everyone I have ever worked for knows this. Everyone who has ever drug screened me for employment. Everywhere that has ever had to tell the IRS about my gambling winnings. Half a dozen real estate agents. Over a dozen banks, and over a thousand bank employees. Anyone in earshot every time I have ever called my bank. Broward County got it right, publish them all, expose the farce that is SSN secrecy.
Hooray for quoting out of context? The RFC states that.com is for commercial entities, and it eliminates a lot of other exceptions with.edu and.net, leaving *mostly* not-for-profit organizations to go in.org. Do you have any counterexamples?
Everyone keeps calling these "DX10" cards, despite that being a misnomer. They are SM4 cards, and DX10 happens to be the first version of DX to support SM4. OpenGL also supports the new shaders (and has for longer). When are we going to start hearing about developers switching to OGL to get geometry shaders (which produce some sick effects) in WinXP, still the most popular gaming OS?
No, it's just bad math and/or horrible reporting. The article states that 31% of visitors deleted their cookie. That means the increase in reported traffic might be (31%/69%)=45%. They probably meant an increase *OF* 50%, which is an increase *TO* 150%.
FoF supports halting the music. But it only works if you have two-track audio. Otherwise it's all or nothing. Check out some of the indy tracks out there for it, or the ones that come with it, they halt the foreground guitar without halting the accompaniment.
You seem confused on the meaning of "cheating" as opposed to "hacking", both of which are not neccessarily the same as "exploiting". Let me lay it out in simple terms for you. If I can do it myself within the bounds of the rules, it isn't cheating. If I can do it without modifying anything about the game, it isn't hacking. And if the game was designed to allow me to do it, then it isn't exploiting.
The kind of mindless repetitive grinding that games like WoW require could easily be taught to a pet. At one point I was "botting" in Everquest (1) with a Lego contraption that just pressed 4 keys in sequence over and over, as if a person was sitting there tapping their fingers. The same can be done in WoW, although it isn't the most efficient way.
I have seen people banned for fully utilizing their programmable keyboards like the logitech G15. Blizzard can't draw a firm line between "helpful" and "unattended playing", which is really their only concern here. Is it unattended if I use one of the priest macros that auto heals while I press the same button over and over? What if I am not looking at the screen while I do it (hey, Baywatch is on!)? What if I just tape the key down and turn on autorepeat?
If you want to duplicate the functionality, you have to treat it as a black box. If you want to make a different product that interoperates with it, then you are explicitly allowed to reverse engineer it.
USC 17 1201 (f) Reverse Engineering. - (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a)(1)(A)[the 'DMCA' clause that forbids circumventing technological access control measures], a person who has lawfully obtained the right to use a copy of a computer program may circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a particular portion of that program for the sole purpose of identifying and analyzing those elements of the program that are necessary to achieve interoperability of an independently created computer program with other programs, and that have not previously been readily available to the person engaging in the circumvention, to the extent any such acts of identification and analysis do not constitute infringement under this title.
Why does everyone assume this is only for joyrides? Ignoring the potential for launching satellites, consider just the travel benefits. This is minutes from Las Vegas (great place for joyrides, but we are ignoring those), not far from Albuquerque. A 1 hour flight from Los Angeles. Currently Tokyo is a 12 hour flight from Los Angeles. A commercial spaceport somewhere in Japan would put LA and Tokyo a mere 3-4 hours apart. For $200000 you might only use such a service for surgeons and diplomats, but imagine when the price is $20000 per flight per person? Or $2000? The same applies to LANY, and NYLondon. Or even LALondon or NYTokyo or LATokyo, for that matter.
Unfortunately in this particular case it is mostly hypothetical because the major cities will get their own spaceports by the time such travel is mainstream. So back to joyrides... What if they are travel-joyrides? Billionaires drop millions of dollars in one trip to Las Vegas. But it is such a long trip. What if you could go from (the aforementioned spaceport in) NY to Vegas in an hour? Why bother with Atlantic City?
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One overlooked aspect here is that there will be no transmission loss, because the turbines will generate the power right on the spot. That is, assuming the electric train line follows the turnpike's route.
Which is just as acceptable of an outcome as if they had agreed.
Err, no? The annoying thing about UAC isnt how it looks, its how often and for what it pops up. In Kubuntu, I only see a sudo prompt when I already expect one, when installing new software or changing hardware configuration options. In Vista, UAC can open any time it wants, and often does.
How about UAC starts imitating better designed privilege escalation mechanisms from Linux or OS X? Of course, that would require a sensible architecture in which software can be installed by users, for themselves, without superuser permissions. And, unfortunately, it would need secure software as a basis to avoid needing unnecessary privileges to accomplish mundane tasks in insecure applications. Sorry Microsoft, you missed the boat on this one. The majority of Vista users have UAC turned off, and the majority of those who dont will turn it off as soon as they figure out how.
This is fun logic to apply to EULAs :) Amend them before agreeing. I always do. And sometimes when I am feeling especially bored I actually mail a copy of the amended agreement to the publisher. Sadly, I have never gotten a reply :(
Actually, they can give out any true facts, barring a confidentiality agreement. What they can't give out is opinions. Most HR departments have a policy in place to only give out employment dates because that is "safe", but many go farther. In the sales business I have encountered HR depts that will disclose performance information and such.
Assuming you live in a state with a small claims court, you would almost certainly be eligible for reimbursement for the relocation (I will assume you only spend a few thousand dollars) if you didn't get to see the contract after being given the job and before moving, particularly if any of the clauses in question were "unconscionable" in the judge's opinion (which this sort almost always are).
I admit I don't take as good care of my car as I should, but I'll take that bet... I had to have my emissions tested for a tag renewal last month. HC = 88 PPM, CO = 0.38%, CO2 = 13.6%. I am too lazy to find averages or baseline data, so you tell me how I did.
I would petition to get the sticker for my more-environmentally-friendly non-hybrid. Such arbitrary restrictions are ridiculous.
Why buy a hybrid for $15k that gets 50-60 MPG and needs $10k in new batteries every ten years when you can buy a 10-year-old economy gas or diesel car for $1k that gets 40-50 MPG? Yes, I drive a 1994 Geo Metro. I get 45/49 MPG on nothing but gas. I paid $1300 for it a couple of years ago. My alternative at the time was a diesel VW Rabbit, which gets similar mileage but is harder to maintain. My next car will be the Laremo, I hope. 157 MPG FTW.
What parent said. BSOD is *ALWAYS* the fault of the OS. Regardless of what 'triggered' the crash, if the OS stops functioning then it isnt doing its job* properly.
* The job of an OS is to manage the operations of all processes on the system.
Thanks for the reminder that my resume is out of date there, my current address shouldnt be much harder to find. Someone above mentioned my birthdate and mother's maiden name, you can come up with those with a little more work. I don't believe in identity theft. Identity borrowage, maybe. If some other guy is out there somewhere using all my info, what do I care? It's not me, and it doesn't impact me in the slightest. What you won't find online is my signature, which would be expensive and/or time consuming to convincingly fake even if you could. Ditto my fingerprints and retinal pattern. Double ditto my actual secret information, such as passwords and passphrases.
The first two are on my resume. The third on my profile with any number of online services. The fourth might be tricky, I wouldn't want to make it too easy for you :) For a hint, consider that the prefix on my SSN identifies where I was born.
Go ahead. I am not someone that you want to be. Good luck getting a loan or a credit card, I haven't managed it.
My SSN is 427347246. This is not a secret. Everyone I have ever worked for knows this. Everyone who has ever drug screened me for employment. Everywhere that has ever had to tell the IRS about my gambling winnings. Half a dozen real estate agents. Over a dozen banks, and over a thousand bank employees. Anyone in earshot every time I have ever called my bank. Broward County got it right, publish them all, expose the farce that is SSN secrecy.
Hooray for quoting out of context? The RFC states that .com is for commercial entities, and it eliminates a lot of other exceptions with .edu and .net, leaving *mostly* not-for-profit organizations to go in .org. Do you have any counterexamples?
Everyone keeps calling these "DX10" cards, despite that being a misnomer. They are SM4 cards, and DX10 happens to be the first version of DX to support SM4. OpenGL also supports the new shaders (and has for longer). When are we going to start hearing about developers switching to OGL to get geometry shaders (which produce some sick effects) in WinXP, still the most popular gaming OS?
No, it's just bad math and/or horrible reporting. The article states that 31% of visitors deleted their cookie. That means the increase in reported traffic might be (31%/69%)=45%. They probably meant an increase *OF* 50%, which is an increase *TO* 150%.
Cedega *IS* open source, and you don't have to pay for it. Next?
FoF supports halting the music. But it only works if you have two-track audio. Otherwise it's all or nothing. Check out some of the indy tracks out there for it, or the ones that come with it, they halt the foreground guitar without halting the accompaniment.
You seem confused on the meaning of "cheating" as opposed to "hacking", both of which are not neccessarily the same as "exploiting". Let me lay it out in simple terms for you. If I can do it myself within the bounds of the rules, it isn't cheating. If I can do it without modifying anything about the game, it isn't hacking. And if the game was designed to allow me to do it, then it isn't exploiting.
The kind of mindless repetitive grinding that games like WoW require could easily be taught to a pet. At one point I was "botting" in Everquest (1) with a Lego contraption that just pressed 4 keys in sequence over and over, as if a person was sitting there tapping their fingers. The same can be done in WoW, although it isn't the most efficient way.
I have seen people banned for fully utilizing their programmable keyboards like the logitech G15. Blizzard can't draw a firm line between "helpful" and "unattended playing", which is really their only concern here. Is it unattended if I use one of the priest macros that auto heals while I press the same button over and over? What if I am not looking at the screen while I do it (hey, Baywatch is on!)? What if I just tape the key down and turn on autorepeat?
Successfully, I might add. We stripped off two bytes and got a slightly lower quality version of the original with the complete meaning intact.
Why does everyone assume this is only for joyrides? Ignoring the potential for launching satellites, consider just the travel benefits. This is minutes from Las Vegas (great place for joyrides, but we are ignoring those), not far from Albuquerque. A 1 hour flight from Los Angeles. Currently Tokyo is a 12 hour flight from Los Angeles. A commercial spaceport somewhere in Japan would put LA and Tokyo a mere 3-4 hours apart. For $200000 you might only use such a service for surgeons and diplomats, but imagine when the price is $20000 per flight per person? Or $2000? The same applies to LANY, and NYLondon. Or even LALondon or NYTokyo or LATokyo, for that matter.
Unfortunately in this particular case it is mostly hypothetical because the major cities will get their own spaceports by the time such travel is mainstream. So back to joyrides... What if they are travel-joyrides? Billionaires drop millions of dollars in one trip to Las Vegas. But it is such a long trip. What if you could go from (the aforementioned spaceport in) NY to Vegas in an hour? Why bother with Atlantic City?
It claims to follow hyperlinks. Does it obey robots.txt on the destination site? I sense possible legal disputes.