Sounds like a reasonable thing to do. I drive at around 100 kph (about 60 mph) and also get passed a lot but it really makes a difference on the mileage I get. Switching to premium might also give me more performance (i.e. power) but I'm not sure if it's worth the premium price.
BTW: you also attracts more chicks if you drive slow. So it's basically an evolution thing. Those who drive slow multiply more, so there will be more of them. I guess the high price of fuel is just another motivating factor.
I think you are indeed paranoid. I guess it wouldn't be any different from anything else that's got a wireless connection. Including your laptop. Unless I'm the one that's not paranoid enough.
Or how about sending your Region 1 DVD to a friend in Taiwan (which is not a member of WIPO) for him/her to decrypt and email back to you the MP4 unlocked version? Maybe that would be like having the FBI ship out suspected criminals to, say Siria, for a more effective interrogation (or to get a confession)... then returning the results back to the FBI.
Not sure if depreciation can be taken into account when calculating the value of a theft. If that's the case, by the time they get to court, all that equipment will be almost worthless.
BTW: I read that the cost of a single TOW missile is around $180,000. This kinda puts things in perspective...
If the Canadian government announced they had landed on the moon, I would likely not believe that. China, well, it's not particularly surprising they were able to put a man in orbit. Almost a non-event.
I suppose it will appear in those media which are not members of the RIAA or owned by members of the RIAA. Maybe some Canadian press will cover the reversal.
I am not a physicist but I was wondering about the velocity of these galaxies and the E=MC2 formula. From TFA:
"They discovered that the clusters were moving nearly 2 million mph (3.2 million kph) toward a region in the sky between the constellations of Centaurus and Vela. This motion is different from the outward expansion of the universe (which is accelerated by the force called dark energy)."
That's a fraction of the speed of light but all that mass moving at that speed would definitively exert an exponential pull on each other since the mass of these objects increases as you approach the speed of light. Add a few million galaxies within a tight space, all moving at that speed (and accelerating), would possibly look like something else is pulling them. Especially if there is a supermassive black hole around there.
Gravity is not that strong a force I know but over billions of years, it might start to have some effect.
Hordes of supermassive black holes in that region of space are orbiting each other. Stars hiding behind them might have attempted "event horizon surfing" unsuccessfully and was then slowly swallowed. Gravity lensing could have further distorted the resulting observation into what was reported. Just like a real surfer: up she goes, rides the wave, then splash.
I agree. IANAL but I think there are just a many types of legal jobs out there. International law, criminal law, corporate law, IP law, for example. All those require distinct knowledge and competencies not much different from game developpers vs corporate application developpers. The basic qualifications might be the same but don't expect full productivity until they have acquired experience.
Spam requires attention and my attention is extremely valuable. I'd rather give attention to an important job offer in my inbox but first I have to sift through a dozen "legitimate looking" emails to find the right one. Imagine if all you junk mail (the physical type) were all sent to you in envelopes from a potential employer or looked like a postcard from a friend abroad.
There was an interesting documentary on Mardi Gras beads. They were made in China but no Chinese cared much for them. They even said they were very low quality. They giggled when the tv folks showed the chinese workers what the beads were used for.
I have to say that Openarena works very well on this Pentium III base PC. I reverted to this game after I bought Assassin's Creed for PC. It didn't work on my non-core duo PC. I then read the VERY VERY fine print and saw the obscene system requirements. Not to mention AC is a few years old! The nice thing with OA is that all five of us can play on our home LAN. I'll keep AC until the next upgrade:(
Seems to me we had a lot of cloud cover in the northern hemisphere this summer hence cooler temperatures. Clouds don't appear to absorb infrared light.
That being said, I'm not at all worried about global warming. CO2 sequestration or other technologies will be easy enough to engineer if needed.
What we might need to be concerned about are the effects of powerful nearby gamma ray bursts on the atmosphere.
Personally, I don't think we have more free will than a fridge. Sure we may have a different morphology but to itself, the fridge thinks it has free will. It decides when to turn itself on or off and decides when to turn on its light or turn it off. However, from our perspective, it has no free will at all. So from our perspective we believe we have free will. To our "maker" or to the "universe" if you're atheist, we really are very predictable.
Heck, there are standards out there now. From SATA to USB to DVI to i86. Apple follows them. This BS about Apple having apparent control of their hardware "because if prevents crashes" has been over since Apple dropped the Twiggy drive. Apple mainly deviates from standards if standards are an impediment to innovation (generally a good but risky endavour).
I get this deja-vu feeling... Pure FUD. Just like they warned us about Iraq's WMDs and now China is supposed to be a huge cyberspy. Honeslty, I can't see why China would even care about the U.S. ecomony. I think they're doing quite well on their own xie-xie. If I was Chinese, I would probably be very affraid of those supposed-to-be athletes who might be in fact CIA spies.
The warm and hospitable people of Greenland might declare independance from Denmark later this year. If they do, Canada and the US will certainly recognise it as a sovereing state. Immigrating to Greenland by a few dozen Canadians and Americans can certainly help with that referendum vote. The future is Green!
To me, the theatre experience is only 20% image quality, 20% sound. Up to 60% is the fact that I can give the movie 100% of my attention. Viewing at home, there's always some distraction (example phone, doorbell, kids, pets) preventing me from getting the full viewing experience. I'm not surprised to hear about blu-ray adoption problems. To me it's quite an investment to slighly improve the 20% part of the entire movie experience.
I wouldn't want my highways owned and administered by companies having an interest in transportation. Imagine private traffic cops stopping all competing vehicles for various random safety inspections and allowing the companies own vehicles to travel beyond the speed limit. Doesn't make sense for roads. Doesn't make sense for the Internet. In my opinion, content providers should not administer the Internet nor be allowed to interfere with its traffic.
Here's an analogy. If a company advertises on city busses because they are the most visible, can cab companies complain to limit this advertising? What if the bus company strikes a deal with horse carriages, does this cause prejudice to cab companies in terms of advertisement potential?
Can this type of deal put cab companies out of business? What if this ad placement income was the cab company's only revenue?
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You work for Elite Model Management and all the women look like Adriana Lima, you lucky sob.
Sounds like a reasonable thing to do. I drive at around 100 kph (about 60 mph) and also get passed a lot but it really makes a difference on the mileage I get. Switching to premium might also give me more performance (i.e. power) but I'm not sure if it's worth the premium price.
BTW: you also attracts more chicks if you drive slow. So it's basically an evolution thing. Those who drive slow multiply more, so there will be more of them. I guess the high price of fuel is just another motivating factor.
I think you are indeed paranoid. I guess it wouldn't be any different from anything else that's got a wireless connection. Including your laptop.
Unless I'm the one that's not paranoid enough.
Or how about sending your Region 1 DVD to a friend in Taiwan (which is not a member of WIPO) for him/her to decrypt and email back to you the MP4 unlocked version? Maybe that would be like having the FBI ship out suspected criminals to, say Siria, for a more effective interrogation (or to get a confession)... then returning the results back to the FBI.
Not sure if depreciation can be taken into account when calculating the value of a theft. If that's the case, by the time they get to court, all that equipment will be almost worthless.
BTW: I read that the cost of a single TOW missile is around $180,000. This kinda puts things in perspective...
If the Canadian government announced they had landed on the moon, I would likely not believe that. China, well, it's not particularly surprising they were able to put a man in orbit. Almost a non-event.
I suppose it will appear in those media which are not members of the RIAA or owned by members of the RIAA. Maybe some Canadian press will cover the reversal.
I am not a physicist but I was wondering about the velocity of these galaxies and the E=MC2 formula. From TFA:
"They discovered that the clusters were moving nearly 2 million mph (3.2 million kph) toward a region in the sky between the constellations of Centaurus and Vela. This motion is different from the outward expansion of the universe (which is accelerated by the force called dark energy)."
That's a fraction of the speed of light but all that mass moving at that speed would definitively exert an exponential pull on each other since the mass of these objects increases as you approach the speed of light. Add a few million galaxies within a tight space, all moving at that speed (and accelerating), would possibly look like something else is pulling them. Especially if there is a supermassive black hole around there.
Gravity is not that strong a force I know but over billions of years, it might start to have some effect.
Hordes of supermassive black holes in that region of space are orbiting each other. Stars hiding behind them might have attempted "event horizon surfing" unsuccessfully and was then slowly swallowed. Gravity lensing could have further distorted the resulting observation into what was reported. Just like a real surfer: up she goes, rides the wave, then splash.
I agree. IANAL but I think there are just a many types of legal jobs out there. International law, criminal law, corporate law, IP law, for example. All those require distinct knowledge and competencies not much different from game developpers vs corporate application developpers. The basic qualifications might be the same but don't expect full productivity until they have acquired experience.
Spam requires attention and my attention is extremely valuable. I'd rather give attention to an important job offer in my inbox but first I have to sift through a dozen "legitimate looking" emails to find the right one.
Imagine if all you junk mail (the physical type) were all sent to you in envelopes from a potential employer or looked like a postcard from a friend abroad.
To me this is why spam is worse than junk mail.
There was an interesting documentary on Mardi Gras beads. They were made in China but no Chinese cared much for them. They even said they were very low quality. They giggled when the tv folks showed the chinese workers what the beads were used for.
...and all photosynthetic oxygen output from vegetation contributes to the reduction of CO2. Help keep a good O2:CO2 ratio, plant some weeds today!
Sounds just like instructions from IKEA.
I have to say that Openarena works very well on this Pentium III base PC. I reverted to this game after I bought Assassin's Creed for PC. It didn't work on my non-core duo PC. I then read the VERY VERY fine print and saw the obscene system requirements. Not to mention AC is a few years old! The nice thing with OA is that all five of us can play on our home LAN. I'll keep AC until the next upgrade :(
Seems to me we had a lot of cloud cover in the northern hemisphere this summer hence cooler temperatures. Clouds don't appear to absorb infrared light.
That being said, I'm not at all worried about global warming. CO2 sequestration or other technologies will be easy enough to engineer if needed.
What we might need to be concerned about are the effects of powerful nearby gamma ray bursts on the atmosphere.
Personally, I don't think we have more free will than a fridge. Sure we may have a different morphology but to itself, the fridge thinks it has free will. It decides when to turn itself on or off and decides when to turn on its light or turn it off. However, from our perspective, it has no free will at all. So from our perspective we believe we have free will. To our "maker" or to the "universe" if you're atheist, we really are very predictable.
Heck, there are standards out there now. From SATA to USB to DVI to i86. Apple follows them. This BS about Apple having apparent control of their hardware "because if prevents crashes" has been over since Apple dropped the Twiggy drive. Apple mainly deviates from standards if standards are an impediment to innovation (generally a good but risky endavour).
I get this deja-vu feeling... Pure FUD. Just like they warned us about Iraq's WMDs and now China is supposed to be a huge cyberspy. Honeslty, I can't see why China would even care about the U.S. ecomony. I think they're doing quite well on their own xie-xie. If I was Chinese, I would probably be very affraid of those supposed-to-be athletes who might be in fact CIA spies.
The warm and hospitable people of Greenland might declare independance from Denmark later this year. If they do, Canada and the US will certainly recognise it as a sovereing state. Immigrating to Greenland by a few dozen Canadians and Americans can certainly help with that referendum vote. The future is Green!
"...look, itz fullz of staarz"
To me, the theatre experience is only 20% image quality, 20% sound. Up to 60% is the fact that I can give the movie 100% of my attention. Viewing at home, there's always some distraction (example phone, doorbell, kids, pets) preventing me from getting the full viewing experience. I'm not surprised to hear about blu-ray adoption problems. To me it's quite an investment to slighly improve the 20% part of the entire movie experience.
I guess they still need to avenge Microsoft's dropping of OS/2 back in the 90's.
Kudos to IBM and hope they'll start opening up and bundling Notes as well.
I wouldn't want my highways owned and administered by companies having an interest in transportation. Imagine private traffic cops stopping all competing vehicles for various random safety inspections and allowing the companies own vehicles to travel beyond the speed limit. Doesn't make sense for roads. Doesn't make sense for the Internet. In my opinion, content providers should not administer the Internet nor be allowed to interfere with its traffic.
Here's an analogy. If a company advertises on city busses because they are the most visible, can cab companies complain to limit this advertising? What if the bus company strikes a deal with horse carriages, does this cause prejudice to cab companies in terms of advertisement potential?
Can this type of deal put cab companies out of business?
What if this ad placement income was the cab company's only revenue?