I have never understood this. It would be trivial for terrorists to smuggle multiple high-power transmitters onto a plane. If transmitting could cause a plane to crash... well something doesn't add up here!
Either the risk is overstated (GROSSLY, to put it mildly) or terrorists are stupid (which I'm prepared to believe). Which is it?
Well, here's a reason: cell phone company revenue. If they can charge you $1 a minute (I forget what I pay for roaming) if you drive two hours, imagine what they can charge you if you're 6 miles in the air over three different states. $10 a minute? $99.95 a minute? God only knows.
I hate my cell phone, btw. I guess that's why I never carry it around.
Incidentally, wtf is a roaming fee? Is it just a revenue source, or is the cell phone network actually that insanely expensive to operate? I guess that's probably a stupid question, eh?
A poser SUV? What the fuck do you call a Cadillac SUV then, or 99% of the other SUVs on the market? At least if I took my CR-V offroad and broke it I could replace it without breaking the bank! And WTF is "artificially high resale value"? Is that what someone with a car with crappy resale value says to refute the fact that their car ages like crap?
Anyways, IMHO in general an SUV is not an offroad vehicle. It's a yuppie-mobile. The CR-V is an economical family car. For us it's a solid, comfortable grocery getter with more cargo space than our 2 seater for long trips. That's it. All we want is something that drives, holds value well (relatively), is comfortable, reliable, and gets the job done.
The Wrangler solves a different problem. I'm sure it's a way better off-road vehicle. But who cares? Look around, you idiot. 99.99% of the people who are buying SUVs today will NEVER take them offroad, unless you count that big gravel patch in the Safeway parking lot offroad.
Because American consumers are fucking morons. What kind of idiot thinks it's okay to drive alone to work every single day in a car that gets 8-12 MPG? An American living in suburbia, that's who. If morons wouldn't buy these moronic cars, they wouldn't be made. The auto industry is not forcing all these buttheads to do their individual worst to destroy the environment.
Sorry for the rant but this trend disgusts and disturbs me. I realize not everyone drives an environment-killer but some days you'd never guess that where I live.
Wow, biased much? No offense but I (and a ton of other people) would prefer to own some fine Japanese tinfoil, any day. Americans have produced some decent cars, but overall... suckage. IMHO of course.
Honda CR-V. 5 years old, 45k miles, good as new, seriously very close to mint condition. Check the resale value if you like.
Also, I wouldn't wax your car every week unless you're talking about automatic carwash wax. Waste of time, waste of wax.
But perhaps not if the boiling point of the coolant is only 49C. If the device was generating enough heat I suppose it would stay at 49C. Not a very good PC coolant!
Well yeah that would look pretty cool but is it really practical to use this for PC cooling if you have to dunk your PC in a swimming pool of it?
The best criticism against using this for PC cooling was posted above: it's going to be a PITA to crack open your case and do maintenance when it's full of liquid.
OTOH if we had sealed PC cases I'd no longer have to worry about cat hair build-up! That would rock! I hate having to constantly replace fans that start to make that uber-annoying hum once they get exposed to enough cat hairs and dust.
Just because you don't think IM is useful doesn't mean that others don't appreciate the convenience! Personally I use it all the time. My wife and I chat throughout the day, and ditto with friends. I don't have to turn down the music in my office and I can cut and paste text/links/etc. It's faster than email. etc...
I posted this above, but you should check out Virtual PC. It's very cool. The first time I ran it I was wowed in a big way.
On my 2003 machine I commonly run a session for Windows 2000 and Red Hat (simultaneously) for testing. Each session gets its own IP address so I can actually test a Red Hat client against the Windows 2000 or 2003 server. All on one box.
This may be a bit off-topic but if you want to sample Linux, Virtual PC is pretty damn cool. I run Red Hat on my Windows 2003 box for playing around with stuff.
Baseball is a game played by a bunch of drunken, tobacco chewing goons, illiterates from third world countries, and other assorted misfits who make their living playing a kid's game.
You forgot rich... they may be illiterate goons but some of them are making a hell of a lot more than me!
I could rant all day about how much I love Tivo. Other people prefer Replay, or HTPC, or you can even roll your own with some shareware type stuff I think.
I'm a hard-core geek but I've done the "PC in the living room" thing and I came to the conclusion that I'm willing to spend money for a dedicated piece of hardware that's easier to maintain and operate (for the wife, etc.) than a PC. I don't archive TV shows so I don't need any fancy frills although Tivo is apparently going to allow Tivo->PC->CD sometime this year. (TV quality is shit. If I want to preserve something to watch it again I'll get the DVD, used when possible.)
However, my advice for someone considering a PVR today is generally to consider a HTPC (home theatre PC). HDTV is coming, and the cost of a dedicated HD PVR is likely to be very close to the cost of an entry level HTPC. HD may, as a side effect, kill off the PVR makers simply because computers are so darn cheap and the MS home media center OS is actually pretty decent (or so I've been told).
Tivo doesn't remove commercials. It gives you convenient fast forward/rewind. You can fast forward at three different speeds or use a 30-second-skip button to jump commercials. Don't be tempted to compare PVR fast forward/rewind to a VCR. PVRs do it a thousand times better.
Skipping commercials is just gravy, though. What you don't realize until you own a PVR is that YOU WILL NEVER CHANNEL SURF AGAIN. No matter what, once your PVR is properly set up you will always have a list of pre-records shows and movies that you personally like to watch. That's the killer.
I think you're missing the joke.:) The Indians the white man abused in early America are not the same as the Indians who are out-sourcing. OTOH the American Indians of today are taking some of their due in casinos.
"I agree that the net can be full of the same kind of crap, but at least with the net, you can filter pretty effectively. Also, the advertising isn't as invasive, maybe not even as stupid."
Television without a PVR is absolutely the Dark Ages. With Tivo I don't watch ads, I never channel surf, and I never end up watching some P.O.S. show "because it's on".
TV is full of crap. But buried amongst the crap is decent, entertaining, informative stuff. Just like the net, you have to filter it effectively. A remote is not an effective filter on its own!
Odd... if he has almost perfect vision why is he wearing glasses in the picture?
"I'm really lucky to have almost perfect vision. I'm guessing it's because I don't watch TV. In fact, I don't even own one."
Personally, I've watched a crapload of TV, played a bajillion hours of video games, and stare at a computer monitor about half of every single day of my life on average. My eyes are 20/20 (so far).
Agree. If Linux ever has a large "grandmother" user base like Windows then the worm writers will start blasting out trojan emails targeting Linux systems.
Windows has suffered some horrific virii in the past but most issues these days are from trojans run but idiot users, not security flaws.
Thank you! That is EXACTLY why I've never understood why people are so interested in major league sports. My hometown's team is neither owned, managed, nor staffed by people from my hometown. So why should anyone give a crap about them?
It's just bread and circuses (which you have to pay for)!:)
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Damn! How do you train a cat to answer the phone? My cats are too stupid to do anything beyond eat, sleep, and poop.
I have never understood this. It would be trivial for terrorists to smuggle multiple high-power transmitters onto a plane. If transmitting could cause a plane to crash... well something doesn't add up here!
Either the risk is overstated (GROSSLY, to put it mildly) or terrorists are stupid (which I'm prepared to believe). Which is it?
Well, here's a reason: cell phone company revenue. If they can charge you $1 a minute (I forget what I pay for roaming) if you drive two hours, imagine what they can charge you if you're 6 miles in the air over three different states. $10 a minute? $99.95 a minute? God only knows.
I hate my cell phone, btw. I guess that's why I never carry it around.
Incidentally, wtf is a roaming fee? Is it just a revenue source, or is the cell phone network actually that insanely expensive to operate? I guess that's probably a stupid question, eh?
A poser SUV? What the fuck do you call a Cadillac SUV then, or 99% of the other SUVs on the market? At least if I took my CR-V offroad and broke it I could replace it without breaking the bank! And WTF is "artificially high resale value"? Is that what someone with a car with crappy resale value says to refute the fact that their car ages like crap?
Anyways, IMHO in general an SUV is not an offroad vehicle. It's a yuppie-mobile. The CR-V is an economical family car. For us it's a solid, comfortable grocery getter with more cargo space than our 2 seater for long trips. That's it. All we want is something that drives, holds value well (relatively), is comfortable, reliable, and gets the job done.
The Wrangler solves a different problem. I'm sure it's a way better off-road vehicle. But who cares? Look around, you idiot. 99.99% of the people who are buying SUVs today will NEVER take them offroad, unless you count that big gravel patch in the Safeway parking lot offroad.
Then why is average fuel economy decreasing?
Because American consumers are fucking morons. What kind of idiot thinks it's okay to drive alone to work every single day in a car that gets 8-12 MPG? An American living in suburbia, that's who. If morons wouldn't buy these moronic cars, they wouldn't be made. The auto industry is not forcing all these buttheads to do their individual worst to destroy the environment.
Sorry for the rant but this trend disgusts and disturbs me. I realize not everyone drives an environment-killer but some days you'd never guess that where I live.
"Japanese tinfoil crap"
Wow, biased much? No offense but I (and a ton of other people) would prefer to own some fine Japanese tinfoil, any day. Americans have produced some decent cars, but overall... suckage. IMHO of course.
Honda CR-V. 5 years old, 45k miles, good as new, seriously very close to mint condition. Check the resale value if you like.
Also, I wouldn't wax your car every week unless you're talking about automatic carwash wax. Waste of time, waste of wax.
Four more words: "until this law passes".
If spamming in the US becomes risky, they'll simply hire people overseas to do it.
Watch the video. There's only one brain damaged party involved and it ain't the guy with the gun.
:)
Although yeah, the transcript reads kinda lamely. But hey that's real life for ya. We all sound like blithering idiots in transcript.
"boiling is fucking good at removing energy"
But perhaps not if the boiling point of the coolant is only 49C. If the device was generating enough heat I suppose it would stay at 49C. Not a very good PC coolant!
Well yeah that would look pretty cool but is it really practical to use this for PC cooling if you have to dunk your PC in a swimming pool of it?
The best criticism against using this for PC cooling was posted above: it's going to be a PITA to crack open your case and do maintenance when it's full of liquid.
OTOH if we had sealed PC cases I'd no longer have to worry about cat hair build-up! That would rock! I hate having to constantly replace fans that start to make that uber-annoying hum once they get exposed to enough cat hairs and dust.
Try XP's help. It's way better than it used to be.
BTW, help that is not (by your implication) useless to a newbie is actually a good thing!
Mythbusters tried to duplicate this a while back. They had no luck and had a couple of different experts talk about how it's just an urban myth.
Uh... what if the person is long distance?
Just because you don't think IM is useful doesn't mean that others don't appreciate the convenience! Personally I use it all the time. My wife and I chat throughout the day, and ditto with friends. I don't have to turn down the music in my office and I can cut and paste text/links/etc. It's faster than email. etc...
Open your mind... start the reactor!
I posted this above, but you should check out Virtual PC. It's very cool. The first time I ran it I was wowed in a big way.
On my 2003 machine I commonly run a session for Windows 2000 and Red Hat (simultaneously) for testing. Each session gets its own IP address so I can actually test a Red Hat client against the Windows 2000 or 2003 server. All on one box.
Ubah...
This may be a bit off-topic but if you want to sample Linux, Virtual PC is pretty damn cool. I run Red Hat on my Windows 2003 box for playing around with stuff.
Baseball is a game played by a bunch of drunken, tobacco chewing goons, illiterates from third world countries, and other assorted misfits who make their living playing a kid's game.
You forgot rich... they may be illiterate goons but some of them are making a hell of a lot more than me!
I could rant all day about how much I love Tivo. Other people prefer Replay, or HTPC, or you can even roll your own with some shareware type stuff I think.
:)
I'm a hard-core geek but I've done the "PC in the living room" thing and I came to the conclusion that I'm willing to spend money for a dedicated piece of hardware that's easier to maintain and operate (for the wife, etc.) than a PC. I don't archive TV shows so I don't need any fancy frills although Tivo is apparently going to allow Tivo->PC->CD sometime this year. (TV quality is shit. If I want to preserve something to watch it again I'll get the DVD, used when possible.)
However, my advice for someone considering a PVR today is generally to consider a HTPC (home theatre PC). HDTV is coming, and the cost of a dedicated HD PVR is likely to be very close to the cost of an entry level HTPC. HD may, as a side effect, kill off the PVR makers simply because computers are so darn cheap and the MS home media center OS is actually pretty decent (or so I've been told).
Enough ranting, I guess...
Tivo doesn't remove commercials. It gives you convenient fast forward/rewind. You can fast forward at three different speeds or use a 30-second-skip button to jump commercials. Don't be tempted to compare PVR fast forward/rewind to a VCR. PVRs do it a thousand times better.
Skipping commercials is just gravy, though. What you don't realize until you own a PVR is that YOU WILL NEVER CHANNEL SURF AGAIN. No matter what, once your PVR is properly set up you will always have a list of pre-records shows and movies that you personally like to watch. That's the killer.
This is slashdot, remember? ;)
I think you're missing the joke. :) The Indians the white man abused in early America are not the same as the Indians who are out-sourcing. OTOH the American Indians of today are taking some of their due in casinos.
"Will it stay in one timeslot long enough for me to program my VCR/Tivo?"
Minor nit: you tell your Tivo to record the show by name for a Season's Pass. Tivo does the right thing if the show changes timeslot.
"I agree that the net can be full of the same kind of crap, but at least with the net, you can filter pretty effectively. Also, the advertising isn't as invasive, maybe not even as stupid."
Television without a PVR is absolutely the Dark Ages. With Tivo I don't watch ads, I never channel surf, and I never end up watching some P.O.S. show "because it's on".
TV is full of crap. But buried amongst the crap is decent, entertaining, informative stuff. Just like the net, you have to filter it effectively. A remote is not an effective filter on its own!
Odd... if he has almost perfect vision why is he wearing glasses in the picture?
"I'm really lucky to have almost perfect vision. I'm guessing it's because I don't watch TV. In fact, I don't even own one."
Personally, I've watched a crapload of TV, played a bajillion hours of video games, and stare at a computer monitor about half of every single day of my life on average. My eyes are 20/20 (so far).
Agree. If Linux ever has a large "grandmother" user base like Windows then the worm writers will start blasting out trojan emails targeting Linux systems.
Windows has suffered some horrific virii in the past but most issues these days are from trojans run but idiot users, not security flaws.
XP SP2 has a lot of good security enhancements.
Thank you! That is EXACTLY why I've never understood why people are so interested in major league sports. My hometown's team is neither owned, managed, nor staffed by people from my hometown. So why should anyone give a crap about them?
:)
It's just bread and circuses (which you have to pay for)!