Where I live in Vancouver, BC, every-time I have taken a cab, the driver is talking the entire time on his cellular phone (Thankfully with a headset). Must have one of those unlimited incoming plans, but does not make me feel any safer. (Not to mention, it's not in English, so I can't at least be entertained by overhearing the conversation).
The onerous credit-card taking was also a pain - considering electronic cellular machines are used in restaurants frequently, no excuse for them not being available in cabs for credit/debit charges.
50-60k in any reasonable commuting distance from Vancouver will "buy" you a 40 year loan on a townhouse, if you're lucky, with definetly no extra money for "toys". The average home price in Vancouver being in the 700,000 range and at current mortgage rates, 50-60k does not get you far.
Well, tax benefits is just one of many reasons, at least in Canada. By having a spouse, there are a lot of handy things on the tax form that can be used to save a lot of money both now, and after retirement.
In theory, one just needs to work long enough to live off a well invested sum of "net worth" and then, one doesn't have to live off of the system. The only problem I see is that if everyone did this, the money is coming from somewhere in the end, either other people (perpetually broke), government, etc. Here in Canada, a 3% interest off 2 million is enough to live reasonably comfortably on (60,000 a year or something like that)
Humm.. I don't know if anyone get's the reference to the Triumph at Starwars video piece that was aired on TV making fun of all those Star Wars geeks who wait in line for weeks on end for the next given movie.
Got one for you. Check out the Fujitsu P-series laptops. The higher end P-2000 has all that you desire, crusoe chip for long battery life, cd-rw, wireless, modem, ethernet, small but high-res screen + the thing is light and tiny.
ATI has a nice card out, just for capturing tv/video. Built in 125 channel tv-tuner, s-video in, and records direct to mpeg-2 format. This is a PCI card and captures quite nicely. Check it out here: ATI-TV Wonder or, the USB Version or the Cheaper/lighter version and even get a Remote Control for it. All from ATI.
I work around IBM PC300GL workstations. They may be slow (P3s) but are pretty darn silent. In a general office environment, you cannot tell that they are on except for the lights. Unfortunetly, IBM doesn't seem to sell these dreams anymore.
No, the way to throw off their stats is to write a script that reads their stats and then type the less used keys more. Adding one to every key stat probably won't do that much.
Ok, the case takes a flex-atx motherboard. The motherboard which TH looked at is not the only one available in the world. I know for a fact that ASUS makes at least one Flex-ATX board. Look around, maybe you can find one with an AGP slot or multiple pci slots, and generally better hardware.
Hack that box, that's what we're here for anyways.
There worm-viruses seem to exploit IIS which exists on NT and 2000 servers. Well, if you are on NT or 2000, you can go into your command prompt and type "net send YOU HAVE BEEN INFECTED WITH A VIRUS, PLEASE REMOVE IMMEDIATLY"
This message (HAVE BEEN INFECTED WITH A VIRUS, PLEASE REMOVE IMMEDIATLY) will pop-up on the computer who owns the incoming ip. This is great fun because the people on the other end probably think a hacker is in their computer or something.
This is all assuming you have a method of viewing incoming requests on port 80. I use a router which has a log so I just check that and send a few messages out to the ip's that seem to be requesting more than once.
This method is also good for impressing your girlfriend at your 1337 h4x0r 5k1ll5.
"The right of search engines to charge money for returning their result isn't in question, it's how they do it that is the issue. When you ask your teacher at school how to solve a particular problem, you expect him to answer to the best of his ability, not according to what he's paid to say, right? And if what he tells you is influenced by some form of remuneration, whether it's secret or not, wouldn't you prefer to be told about it?"
The thing is, teachers are paid to answer questions and therefore teach us. Search Engines do not make money by being a search engine. They have to find other income. Banner-ads do not bring in much income any more so what is left in providing a free search engine?
As for the imaging of the humans, I believe I read on the Shrek review on Slashdot here that they cut back the detail on the humans because they were starting to look "too real".
Slashdot Mirror
Are you a super-taster? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supertaster
If you are, it may give you a term for the special diet you may be looking for.
Let's ban cellular phones by drivers.
Where I live in Vancouver, BC, every-time I have taken a cab, the driver is talking the entire time on his cellular phone (Thankfully with a headset). Must have one of those unlimited incoming plans, but does not make me feel any safer. (Not to mention, it's not in English, so I can't at least be entertained by overhearing the conversation).
The onerous credit-card taking was also a pain - considering electronic cellular machines are used in restaurants frequently, no excuse for them not being available in cabs for credit/debit charges.
Since this is a well-known problem, there are of course a lot of people working on solutions. I have recently discovered S3DFS: http://www.openfount.com/blog/s3dfs-for-ec2
A FUSE-based file system that mounts like a normal filesystem but reads and writes to S3.
50-60k in any reasonable commuting distance from Vancouver will "buy" you a 40 year loan on a townhouse, if you're lucky, with definetly no extra money for "toys". The average home price in Vancouver being in the 700,000 range and at current mortgage rates, 50-60k does not get you far.
Well, tax benefits is just one of many reasons, at least in Canada. By having a spouse, there are a lot of handy things on the tax form that can be used to save a lot of money both now, and after retirement.
I don't know how it works in the USA, but in Canada, giving money to Charity results in tax credit. Could a motive for Gates be to pay less taxes?
In theory, one just needs to work long enough to live off a well invested sum of "net worth" and then, one doesn't have to live off of the system. The only problem I see is that if everyone did this, the money is coming from somewhere in the end, either other people (perpetually broke), government, etc. Here in Canada, a 3% interest off 2 million is enough to live reasonably comfortably on (60,000 a year or something like that)
You'll find that a lot of different trailers use the music of E.S. Posthumus (http://www.esposthumus.com/).
It becomes quite humerous after hearing all of his music how often his music used for trailers of all sorts.
Humm.. I don't know if anyone get's the reference to the Triumph at Starwars video piece that was aired on TV making fun of all those Star Wars geeks who wait in line for weeks on end for the next given movie.
Got one for you. Check out the Fujitsu P-series laptops. The higher end P-2000 has all that you desire, crusoe chip for long battery life, cd-rw, wireless, modem, ethernet, small but high-res screen + the thing is light and tiny.
Enjoy
ATI has a nice card out, just for capturing tv/video. Built in 125 channel tv-tuner, s-video in, and records direct to mpeg-2 format. This is a PCI card and captures quite nicely. Check it out here: ATI-TV Wonder or, the USB Version or the Cheaper/lighter version and even get a Remote Control for it. All from ATI.
I work around IBM PC300GL workstations. They may be slow (P3s) but are pretty darn silent. In a general office environment, you cannot tell that they are on except for the lights. Unfortunetly, IBM doesn't seem to sell these dreams anymore.
No, the way to throw off their stats is to write a script that reads their stats and then type the less used keys more. Adding one to every key stat probably won't do that much.
But the question is, would you pay for what you are describing?
Lexus/Nexus is used for lookups for law and newspapers. This service is used by many universities and definietly law firms who have the money to burn.
I've personally used Lexus/Nexus and it is very powerful in doing law research. One thing though, it has a lot more than 7000 some documents.
err, that would be gltron.org
Look for for GLTron for a good lightcycle game. The beta even has networking capabilities.
Ok, the case takes a flex-atx motherboard. The motherboard which TH looked at is not the only one available in the world. I know for a fact that ASUS makes at least one Flex-ATX board. Look around, maybe you can find one with an AGP slot or multiple pci slots, and generally better hardware.
Hack that box, that's what we're here for anyways.
Catch the speed at which this site is going to be slashdotted?
How about the fact that there are PDA's that have more raw processing power than your boxen?
AutoXRay all the way
OBD-II scan tool
There worm-viruses seem to exploit IIS which exists on NT and 2000 servers. Well, if you are on NT or 2000, you can go into your command prompt and type "net send YOU HAVE BEEN INFECTED WITH A VIRUS, PLEASE REMOVE IMMEDIATLY"
This message (HAVE BEEN INFECTED WITH A VIRUS, PLEASE REMOVE IMMEDIATLY) will pop-up on the computer who owns the incoming ip. This is great fun because the people on the other end probably think a hacker is in their computer or something.
This is all assuming you have a method of viewing incoming requests on port 80. I use a router which has a log so I just check that and send a few messages out to the ip's that seem to be requesting more than once.
This method is also good for impressing your girlfriend at your 1337 h4x0r 5k1ll5.
Am I the only one who tried flying over the swiss mountains upside-down? (Use arrow keys into invert self)
"The right of search engines to charge money for returning their result isn't in question, it's how they do it that is the issue. When you ask your teacher at school how to solve a particular problem, you expect him to answer to the best of his ability, not according to what he's paid to say, right? And if what he tells you is influenced by some form of remuneration, whether it's secret or not, wouldn't you prefer to be told about it?"
The thing is, teachers are paid to answer questions and therefore teach us. Search Engines do not make money by being a search engine. They have to find other income. Banner-ads do not bring in much income any more so what is left in providing a free search engine?
As for the imaging of the humans, I believe I read on the Shrek review on Slashdot here that they cut back the detail on the humans because they were starting to look "too real".