Actually, this is a good law. In the 1950's shoe departments used to have x-ray machines (called fluoroscopes) that you could stick your foot in and see the bones. Although nifty, they gave people a nice dose of x-rays and increased the risk of cancer. Many states banned these until the federal government stepped in and completely eliminated them. Although the law sounds ridiculous at first, it's actually reasonable.
That would be great, if I didn't need Windows to get and play those DRM-encumbered videos.
They play just fine on my iBook. Also, the restrictions are extremely tame. Most importantly, this isn't a subscription like Napster offers. You keep the videos even after you stop paying for the service.
I'd also like a few History Channel and National Geographic programs on occasion.
I'm sorry Apple didn't immediately cater to your whim as soon as they launched their new service. Like you said, The Daily Show and The Colbert Report are extremely popular shows available only on cable/satellite. Both shows are most popular among Apple's younger demographic, so it makes sense for them to start off with the biggest money makers. I don't think Apple will cater to the DRM-hating linux users for a while. In fact I don't think anyone will cater to the DRM-hating linux users.
Yes, but that makes it pretty useless for a lot of tasks. With wireless on and the screen dimmed reasonably, I can get 6-7 hours out of my 14" iBook. Of course most of what I'm doing during that 6-7 hours is not at all CPU-intensive. I'm just checking email, typing documents, browsing the web, chatting on IRC, and shh-ing to other computers to compile stuff. You would not believe how quickly you can kill the battery by compiling. Even playing Halo doesn't take the battery down as fast.
Still, 3 hours is something most high-performance PC laptops would kill for. One of my friends has an Athlon 64 laptop that only gets 2 hours at most, and it forces the CPU to run at only 800mhz on battery power.
I found QEMU to be extremely slow compared to VirtualPC. My iBook runs XP just fine in VirtualPC. Of course I don't play any 3D games, but it can browse the web, check email, open office docs and whatnot just fine. QEMU may be free, but it was unusable for me.
I have a 1.42Ghz iBook and Apple's estimated time remaining is usually very pessimistic. It will say I have 5:30 left and the battery will last another 6-6 1/2 hours before getting dangerously low. I bet individual batteries and usage differs enough that Apple gives a worst-case estimate. It would be better for the estimate to be pessimistic than optimistic, like a car's fuel gauge. I'm going to guess that the MacBooks will last around 4-5 hours, like the Powerbooks they're meant to replace.
Yeah, Washington DC has that quotation on their license plates. They get no representation in congress but they still have taxes. Funny that our nation's capital is a perfect example of something the founding fathers despised.
Hey look over there, it's Mount Gullible! Seriously, that's an urban legend. In some places emergency vehicles use IR (read: not visible light) strobes to activate sensors on the traffic lights but that is the exception, not the rule. If you could somehow flash your high-beams with millisecond accuracy then you might be able to activate some of the sensors. I don't think most incandescent lights can turn on or off quickly enough to signal properly anyway. Finally, whenever the preemption signal is activated a (visible) light on the traffic light flashes. So you're most likely not activating anything. The light changes on its own, just like it does when you press the button to use the crosswalk at most intersections or when you press the close door button on elevators. 95% of the time, those buttons do nothing. 99.9% of the time (there is probably one random traffic light somewhere that changes because light flashes) flashing your brights will do nothing.
You obviously have never discharged a firearm without hearing protection. The answer to your question is no. The sound of any hunting round (.223 and up) is much MUCH louder than anything a consumer-grade speaker can put out. Shooting (unsupressed firearms) without hearing protection can seriously damage your hearing in a very short amount of time. Of course, when you have to shoot without hearing protection, it's usually for a very good reason. Even if you could have a sound system capable of producing decibels comparable to a rifle being shot, it would destroy your hearing in a week or so. That probably wouldn't happen though, because your neighbors would call the authorities after about 5 minutes of such incredibly loud sounds.
Actually yeah, it should be enough for anybody. I mean I don't think anyone will have a computer with more than 1.85 * 10 ^ 19 bytes of RAM for a while.
Well, in Grant county, Washington there is fiber to the home Although most people report speeds around 10mbit/sec on average (both up and down). I think the bottleneck is not the fiber, but the county's connection to the internet. I mean how many OC-192s can you find in the middle of the desert?
You will NEVER have the stability and it just does not make sense to do any more.
Actually, it's very easy to buy an inexpensive chip that can be overclocked easily. Just get a Celeron. I bought a 1.2Ghz Celeron processor, and I've overclocked it to 1.55Ghz (129Mhz FSB) with no problems at all. I didn't need extra cooling or other special hardware, and the machine is very stable, even though the PC133 RAM is running at 167Mhz (my bios is stupid and adds more than 33Mhz to the RAM speed). I've never had a problem with overheating or instability, ever. I run Prime95 constantly (I leave my computer on all the time) and if you think I use some amazing CPU cooler, I don't. Here are pictures of my case. I only have room for a 1U CPU cooler, so although my CPU runs at 48C constantly, it's never hicupped. As to your comment about not having a noticable speed increase, the reason I overclock is so that Battlefield: Vietnam and UT2K4 will run on my puny system. At stock speed, the games run just a little choppy, but after overclocking they are playable at my LCD's native resolution. So although you may have had bad experiences with overclocking, there are many others who have had success.
You didn't get a signal everywhere because not everything is set up yet. Wait until next week. BTW, chip and I (remember SpokLAN) are thinking about doing some wardriving too.
I modded that cambell's ramen post up, not realizing it was plagarism. It was an honest mistake, as I didn't notice the replies. So in conclusion, there's nothing wrong with the moderation system, it's just that most moderators (me included) just don't read all the replies to comments that we moderate.
Umm.. I have an iPod mini, and there is a checkbox in iTunes thast allows the iPod to be treated as a normal USB/Firewire drive. Once it's enabled, the iPod shows up as a 3.7GB drive on any computer I plug it into. You don't even need iTunes installed on the computer. The mp3s are stored in a hidden folder on the iPod. This makes it easy to play all my songs on any computer, even if it doesn't have iTunes. I can copy them too. Also, I can copy any files I want (space permitting) to the iPod because it behaves like a normal external drive. Maybe you should investigate the features of the iPod before you assume what it can and can't do. By the way, why are you afraid of wearing white headphones? Is crime really that bad where you live?
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Do you realize how much power it takes to spin up a 3.5" drive? All external 3.5" USB drives need an AC adapter because a USB port can't provide enough power. Even a 5400RPM single platter drive can easily draw 10 watts constantly (mostly on the 12 volt rail). That means a 1250mAh battery (3G iPods have a 950mAh battery IIRC) could power just the drive (not including any MP3 decoding hardware) for about 90 minutes. Don't forget that because of their larger platters and heads, 3.5" drives are more vulnerable to bumps than their smaller laptop counterparts. So your idea for a cheap mp3 player would be great if you want a heavy, power-hungy mp3 player that will destory itself at the slightest jolt.
Sorry to shoot your idea down so harshly, but now you know the reason no one makes portable mp3 players with 3.5" drives.
A lot of people have posted the "stun gun from a camera" idea, and I must state that not only is it ineffective, but it's a bad idea. I've made one before (for entertainment purposes >:) ) and the shock is not nearly enough to knock someone out. It will most likely aggrivate an attacker and end up causing more harm than no weapon. If you're going to carry a weapon, make it a blade or a firearm. Both are sure to act as deterrents, and they can maim/kill the attacker(s) if there is no other way to resolve the situation. Carrying a weapon can also give you a false sense of security. Don't let yourself fall into that trap.
I believe you're confusing the victim and the criminal. If someone infringes on another's rights unjustly, then they forfeit their own rights. When a mugger tries to deprive you of life, liberty, and/or property, you have the duty to sanction them. Defending yourself is taking the law into your own hands. If you don't take the law into your own hands, then you not only risk losing life liberty and/or property, but you allow a criminal to go free. By not defending yourself you encourage crime and condone a perversion of justice.
That kind of stuff only happens to people who cross the line further than reasonable doubt will allow.
Really? So although a person is brandishing a weapon and threatening to harm you, you should still doubt that he (I say he because the vast majority of violent criminals are male.) won't actually do it? Victims should always be favored in a trial, simply because victims have already been deprived of their rights unjustly.
Also, if you aren't going to defend yourself, who is? The police are not required by law to come to your aid. Even if they were, do you really think they'd arrive in time to help? A mugging takes seconds, and the nearest police car is usually at least minutes away.
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Actually, this is a good law. In the 1950's shoe departments used to have x-ray machines (called fluoroscopes) that you could stick your foot in and see the bones. Although nifty, they gave people a nice dose of x-rays and increased the risk of cancer. Many states banned these until the federal government stepped in and completely eliminated them. Although the law sounds ridiculous at first, it's actually reasonable.
First, their test only works on windows systems. Secondly, it's just a ploy to get you to buy their stupid software for the low low price of $500.
That would be great, if I didn't need Windows to get and play those DRM-encumbered videos.
They play just fine on my iBook. Also, the restrictions are extremely tame. Most importantly, this isn't a subscription like Napster offers. You keep the videos even after you stop paying for the service.
I'd also like a few History Channel and National Geographic programs on occasion.
I'm sorry Apple didn't immediately cater to your whim as soon as they launched their new service. Like you said, The Daily Show and The Colbert Report are extremely popular shows available only on cable/satellite. Both shows are most popular among Apple's younger demographic, so it makes sense for them to start off with the biggest money makers. I don't think Apple will cater to the DRM-hating linux users for a while. In fact I don't think anyone will cater to the DRM-hating linux users.
Yes, but that makes it pretty useless for a lot of tasks. With wireless on and the screen dimmed reasonably, I can get 6-7 hours out of my 14" iBook. Of course most of what I'm doing during that 6-7 hours is not at all CPU-intensive. I'm just checking email, typing documents, browsing the web, chatting on IRC, and shh-ing to other computers to compile stuff. You would not believe how quickly you can kill the battery by compiling. Even playing Halo doesn't take the battery down as fast.
Still, 3 hours is something most high-performance PC laptops would kill for. One of my friends has an Athlon 64 laptop that only gets 2 hours at most, and it forces the CPU to run at only 800mhz on battery power.
I found QEMU to be extremely slow compared to VirtualPC. My iBook runs XP just fine in VirtualPC. Of course I don't play any 3D games, but it can browse the web, check email, open office docs and whatnot just fine. QEMU may be free, but it was unusable for me.
I have a 1.42Ghz iBook and Apple's estimated time remaining is usually very pessimistic. It will say I have 5:30 left and the battery will last another 6-6 1/2 hours before getting dangerously low. I bet individual batteries and usage differs enough that Apple gives a worst-case estimate. It would be better for the estimate to be pessimistic than optimistic, like a car's fuel gauge. I'm going to guess that the MacBooks will last around 4-5 hours, like the Powerbooks they're meant to replace.
No you idiot, it's because we block you on sight.
Yes, they are called that in Ghost in the Shell: Innocence. Let's hope these robots don't start murdering their owners.
Yeah, Washington DC has that quotation on their license plates. They get no representation in congress but they still have taxes. Funny that our nation's capital is a perfect example of something the founding fathers despised.
Hey look over there, it's Mount Gullible! Seriously, that's an urban legend. In some places emergency vehicles use IR (read: not visible light) strobes to activate sensors on the traffic lights but that is the exception, not the rule. If you could somehow flash your high-beams with millisecond accuracy then you might be able to activate some of the sensors. I don't think most incandescent lights can turn on or off quickly enough to signal properly anyway. Finally, whenever the preemption signal is activated a (visible) light on the traffic light flashes. So you're most likely not activating anything. The light changes on its own, just like it does when you press the button to use the crosswalk at most intersections or when you press the close door button on elevators. 95% of the time, those buttons do nothing. 99.9% of the time (there is probably one random traffic light somewhere that changes because light flashes) flashing your brights will do nothing.
You obviously have never discharged a firearm without hearing protection. The answer to your question is no. The sound of any hunting round (.223 and up) is much MUCH louder than anything a consumer-grade speaker can put out. Shooting (unsupressed firearms) without hearing protection can seriously damage your hearing in a very short amount of time. Of course, when you have to shoot without hearing protection, it's usually for a very good reason. Even if you could have a sound system capable of producing decibels comparable to a rifle being shot, it would destroy your hearing in a week or so. That probably wouldn't happen though, because your neighbors would call the authorities after about 5 minutes of such incredibly loud sounds.
Actually yeah, it should be enough for anybody. I mean I don't think anyone will have a computer with more than 1.85 * 10 ^ 19 bytes of RAM for a while.
Hey, don't give organized crime any ideas, I'm already stretched enough as it is paying for their "fire insurance."
Well, in Grant county, Washington there is fiber to the home Although most people report speeds around 10mbit/sec on average (both up and down). I think the bottleneck is not the fiber, but the county's connection to the internet. I mean how many OC-192s can you find in the middle of the desert?
3d printer you say?
Done and done.
Oh yeah, and ignore those pics of the potato cannon.
You will NEVER have the stability and it just does not make sense to do any more.
Actually, it's very easy to buy an inexpensive chip that can be overclocked easily. Just get a Celeron. I bought a 1.2Ghz Celeron processor, and I've overclocked it to 1.55Ghz (129Mhz FSB) with no problems at all. I didn't need extra cooling or other special hardware, and the machine is very stable, even though the PC133 RAM is running at 167Mhz (my bios is stupid and adds more than 33Mhz to the RAM speed). I've never had a problem with overheating or instability, ever. I run Prime95 constantly (I leave my computer on all the time) and if you think I use some amazing CPU cooler, I don't. Here are pictures of my case. I only have room for a 1U CPU cooler, so although my CPU runs at 48C constantly, it's never hicupped. As to your comment about not having a noticable speed increase, the reason I overclock is so that Battlefield: Vietnam and UT2K4 will run on my puny system. At stock speed, the games run just a little choppy, but after overclocking they are playable at my LCD's native resolution. So although you may have had bad experiences with overclocking, there are many others who have had success.
Rejoice!
You didn't get a signal everywhere because not everything is set up yet. Wait until next week. BTW, chip and I (remember SpokLAN) are thinking about doing some wardriving too.
Is it the gigabyte of storage? The allure of using something offered by Google? The excitement of being admitted to a semi-exclusive online club?
Yes, yes, and yes.
I modded that cambell's ramen post up, not realizing it was plagarism. It was an honest mistake, as I didn't notice the replies. So in conclusion, there's nothing wrong with the moderation system, it's just that most moderators (me included) just don't read all the replies to comments that we moderate.
Umm.. I have an iPod mini, and there is a checkbox in iTunes thast allows the iPod to be treated as a normal USB/Firewire drive. Once it's enabled, the iPod shows up as a 3.7GB drive on any computer I plug it into. You don't even need iTunes installed on the computer. The mp3s are stored in a hidden folder on the iPod. This makes it easy to play all my songs on any computer, even if it doesn't have iTunes. I can copy them too. Also, I can copy any files I want (space permitting) to the iPod because it behaves like a normal external drive. Maybe you should investigate the features of the iPod before you assume what it can and can't do. By the way, why are you afraid of wearing white headphones? Is crime really that bad where you live?
Do you realize how much power it takes to spin up a 3.5" drive? All external 3.5" USB drives need an AC adapter because a USB port can't provide enough power. Even a 5400RPM single platter drive can easily draw 10 watts constantly (mostly on the 12 volt rail). That means a 1250mAh battery (3G iPods have a 950mAh battery IIRC) could power just the drive (not including any MP3 decoding hardware) for about 90 minutes. Don't forget that because of their larger platters and heads, 3.5" drives are more vulnerable to bumps than their smaller laptop counterparts. So your idea for a cheap mp3 player would be great if you want a heavy, power-hungy mp3 player that will destory itself at the slightest jolt.
Sorry to shoot your idea down so harshly, but now you know the reason no one makes portable mp3 players with 3.5" drives.
A lot of people have posted the "stun gun from a camera" idea, and I must state that not only is it ineffective, but it's a bad idea. I've made one before (for entertainment purposes >:) ) and the shock is not nearly enough to knock someone out. It will most likely aggrivate an attacker and end up causing more harm than no weapon. If you're going to carry a weapon, make it a blade or a firearm. Both are sure to act as deterrents, and they can maim/kill the attacker(s) if there is no other way to resolve the situation. Carrying a weapon can also give you a false sense of security. Don't let yourself fall into that trap.
I believe you're confusing the victim and the criminal. If someone infringes on another's rights unjustly, then they forfeit their own rights. When a mugger tries to deprive you of life, liberty, and/or property, you have the duty to sanction them. Defending yourself is taking the law into your own hands. If you don't take the law into your own hands, then you not only risk losing life liberty and/or property, but you allow a criminal to go free. By not defending yourself you encourage crime and condone a perversion of justice.
That kind of stuff only happens to people who cross the line further than reasonable doubt will allow.
Really? So although a person is brandishing a weapon and threatening to harm you, you should still doubt that he (I say he because the vast majority of violent criminals are male.) won't actually do it? Victims should always be favored in a trial, simply because victims have already been deprived of their rights unjustly.
Also, if you aren't going to defend yourself, who is? The police are not required by law to come to your aid. Even if they were, do you really think they'd arrive in time to help? A mugging takes seconds, and the nearest police car is usually at least minutes away.