If you live in an area where the temperature swings enough day to night and you think that shutting off the A/C when you sleep is energy efficient - think again.
The energy required to phase change water vapor when you decide to shut the windows next and turn on the A/C again is relatively huge and can easily offset a night's open-windowed energy savings if you live in an area with high humidity.
They are not "oil" companies. They are energy companies, and they will sell anything that makes them money. Do you think Exxon, Chevron, et al are fools? Regardless of how you view their environmental morals, they are in it for the money. They know better than you how much oil is or isn't in the ground. Not only will they gladly invest capitol in the energy source with the highest profit margin, they have a history of investing now for long-term payouts. If wind, solar, or hydro was seen by their hundreds and hundreds of economists and scientists as economically advantageous, they'd be all over it.
I haven't, and won't spend money on PC hardware just so that I can play a new game. I still play the original Half Life, and haven't upgraded my video hardware past my TNT2.
The high prices he is complaining about are the price you pay for the biggest and the best. His comparisons to console systems are way off the mark.
People buy consoles for the steady stream of games w/o hardware upgrades, knowing full well that the state of the art will leave them behind.
People buy PC gaming hardware so they can keep up with the state of the art, at their own pace. If I want to plunk down $$ for the latest video card to play the new games, I can. But I can also be like a console owner and stand by and watch my equipment slowly become obsolete.
Apple is not unique in this problem.
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I can't think of a single portable music player that I have owned in the last 20 years that did not suffer from this problem. Indeed, it is the fear of such a problem that has kept me from buying any MP3 player.
Everything from an original Sony Walkman, to discount store AM/FM radios, to expensive Sony and Phillips CD players have suffered from this annoying loose headphone jack disease. Some may suffer earlier than others, but none have survived without a little home soldering work more than a year.
If you would read the linked articles you could see past the hype and realize that this proposed law is an attempt to punish file sharers through fines not jail time.
From Sen. Hatch's comments: (emphasis mine)
It is critical that we bring the moral force of the government to bear against those who knowingly violate the federal copyrights enshrined in our Constitution.
But many of us remain concerned that using criminal law enforcement remedies to act against these infringers could have an overly-harsh effect, perhaps, for example, putting thousands of otherwise law-abiding teenagers and college students in jail and branding them with the lifelong stigma of a felony criminal conviction.
The bill I join Senator Leahy in sponsoring today will allow the Department of Justice to supplement its existing criminal-enforcement powers through the new civil-enforcement mechanism. As a result, the Department will be able to impose stiff penalties for violating copyrights, but can avoid criminal action when warranted.
I'm not going to use the T word (theft), but let me just say that the casual breech of copyright is getting out of hand, and getting more and more government attention. Shouldn't we (American) Slashdotters be glad that Congress is discussing a law that increases civil penalties instead of making copyright infringement a criminal offense? With the MPAA and RIAA's tactics increasingly blurring that line between civil and criminal offense, I find that this law actually makes a sane and calm attempt to address the problem.
This device (excluding the smartcard slot and USB ports) has the features of a (very) low end PalmOS machine with the price of a (very) high end PocketPC. The model that is expected to cost $200 dollars has a faster - more battery hungry - processor than my old Palm III, but not much more in terms of capability.
if some of your services really need windows then a windows machine could do it but for the security of data keep the data on a shared network drive (on linux or bsd box).
Why a shared network drive on a Linux or BSD box? Does he really need two different operating systems to keep up-to-date? Security comes from knowing your system inside and out. The security of any given box has much more to do with the knowledge and diligence of the administrator than with his/her choice of operating system. All that running two different systems at home does for the questioner is divide his attention.
windows is as vulnerable at the moment as it has always been,...
The ignorance of facts you show with the above statement explains the following one:
i still don't understand why people use windows anyway:(
P.S. - I'm not sure how a drive shared as you described does didly for security anyways.
Finding out where/when/how life was once possible on Mars would help us find evidence of those life forms. Finding evidence (assuming it exists) of wholly unique, truly alien, life would help us greatly here on Earth understand just what life it, how it began, and go a long way towards answering the ultimate question: Are we alone in the universe? Is Earth the sole planet with life?
There has been an ongoing discussion about just these types of spams in the forums of the excellent Bayesian filter POPFile.
If the gibberish filled spam doesn't randomly happen to have one of the words your corpus recognizes as "good" or "clean" the spam shouldn't get through. The larger your corpus (total collection of classified words) gets, the more likely this is to happen. A good Bayesian email filter should be able to operate on a relatively small corpus, keeping track of only those words that are most unique to your email load, and thus not be fooled by a spam which is little more than an image and fifty lines of text copied from some random source.
The article doesn't say the processor will have 64-bit extensions. The article doesn't say anything. Some quotes:
"The Pentium V is likely..."
"The processor we believe..."
"The final design of this arrangement is not set in stone."
"...details have not been confirmed,..."
"... the source claimed..."
"The Pentium V could have..."
"...although this may be reserved for the next chip along, the Nehalem"
When they were talking about child porn being found on Kazza, I wondered if they ever bothered to look at the Britney Spears video clips they were putting out.
Are you seriously stating that some Britney Spears tease of a video has ANY resemblance to child porn? I hope you were being hyperbolic, for as disgusting as some RIAA members actions might be, they don't begin to compare to child porn. And do you honestly think "the RIAA and it's affiliates have contributed to the destruction of the morals in the US"? How do you destroy morals? Have your morals degraded due to their behavior? Or have only the morals of all the people out there without your amazing powers of resistance been degraded?
2) Get insurance. You like your house right? IANAWD, but I am curious what you are in fear of being sued for. If I follow tip #1 (get incorporated) I don't see the reason to get insurance. Maintain the corporate veil and let the devil care if you are sued. I am also a firm believer that you are more likely to be sued if the other side's lawyers see the potential for a fat insurance payout. Use the corporation to protect your assets.
I would also have to believe that a web designer's name and reputation is worth more than any corporate physical assets that insurance could protect.
I've tested this across physical drives, and I believe it would also work with network-mapped drives.
From the website you mentioned:
It's worth noting that hard links must be created within the same NTFS volume. You cannot have a hard link on, say, drive C: pointing to a file on drive D:.
I thank you for the tip, but it does have a rather sucky limit.
On the count of three you make an ink with the properties needed for an inkjet printer, and I'll make a methanol and water cocktail. We'll see who finishes first.
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If you live in an area where the temperature swings enough day to night and you think that shutting off the A/C when you sleep is energy efficient - think again.
The energy required to phase change water vapor when you decide to shut the windows next and turn on the A/C again is relatively huge and can easily offset a night's open-windowed energy savings if you live in an area with high humidity.
As if PopSci has any other type of review.
Why blame the FCC?
SpikeTV's not a broadcast channel, the FCC has no say.
They are not "oil" companies. They are energy companies, and they will sell anything that makes them money.
Do you think Exxon, Chevron, et al are fools? Regardless of how you view their environmental morals, they are in it for the money. They know better than you how much oil is or isn't in the ground. Not only will they gladly invest capitol in the energy source with the highest profit margin, they have a history of investing now for long-term payouts. If wind, solar, or hydro was seen by their hundreds and hundreds of economists and scientists as economically advantageous, they'd be all over it.
Right you are, but who the hell outside a mod or a masochist browses at 0?
Why mod down a 0?
Shouldn't we be modding up, anyway?
Where do I sue for unauthorized use of my likeness?
The "glow" engines you refer to are named such because they use "glow plugs", they are dieseling piston engines, not rocket replacements.
Estes, being the purveyor of cheap hobby stuff, usually put glow engines in wire controled aircraft.
Wire controled as in fixed control surfaces, and a wire or two to guide the plane in a buzzing circle marionette style.
I haven't, and won't spend money on PC hardware just so that I can play a new game. I still play the original Half Life, and haven't upgraded my video hardware past my TNT2.
The high prices he is complaining about are the price you pay for the biggest and the best. His comparisons to console systems are way off the mark.
People buy consoles for the steady stream of games w/o hardware upgrades, knowing full well that the state of the art will leave them behind.
People buy PC gaming hardware so they can keep up with the state of the art, at their own pace. If I want to plunk down $$ for the latest video card to play the new games, I can. But I can also be like a console owner and stand by and watch my equipment slowly become obsolete.
I can't think of a single portable music player that I have owned in the last 20 years that did not suffer from this problem. Indeed, it is the fear of such a problem that has kept me from buying any MP3 player.
Everything from an original Sony Walkman, to discount store AM/FM radios, to expensive Sony and Phillips CD players have suffered from this annoying loose headphone jack disease. Some may suffer earlier than others, but none have survived without a little home soldering work more than a year.
Interesting theory, I'm one paranoid MFer and I didn't think of that.
Good thought.
From Sen. Hatch's comments: (emphasis mine)
I'm not going to use the T word (theft), but let me just say that the casual breech of copyright is getting out of hand, and getting more and more government attention. Shouldn't we (American) Slashdotters be glad that Congress is discussing a law that increases civil penalties instead of making copyright infringement a criminal offense? With the MPAA and RIAA's tactics increasingly blurring that line between civil and criminal offense, I find that this law actually makes a sane and calm attempt to address the problem.
This device (excluding the smartcard slot and USB ports) has the features of a (very) low end PalmOS machine with the price of a (very) high end PocketPC.
The model that is expected to cost $200 dollars has a faster - more battery hungry - processor than my old Palm III, but not much more in terms of capability.
Why a shared network drive on a Linux or BSD box? Does he really need two different operating systems to keep up-to-date? Security comes from knowing your system inside and out. The security of any given box has much more to do with the knowledge and diligence of the administrator than with his/her choice of operating system. All that running two different systems at home does for the questioner is divide his attention.
The ignorance of facts you show with the above statement explains the following one:
P.S. - I'm not sure how a drive shared as you described does didly for security anyways.
George Lucas should have been the one to hand out the final Oscar of the night.
About fucking time!
Don't forget the TI 99/4A!
Finding out where/when/how life was once possible on Mars would help us find evidence of those life forms. Finding evidence (assuming it exists) of wholly unique, truly alien, life would help us greatly here on Earth understand just what life it, how it began, and go a long way towards answering the ultimate question: Are we alone in the universe? Is Earth the sole planet with life?
There has been an ongoing discussion about just these types of spams in the forums of the excellent Bayesian filter POPFile. If the gibberish filled spam doesn't randomly happen to have one of the words your corpus recognizes as "good" or "clean" the spam shouldn't get through. The larger your corpus (total collection of classified words) gets, the more likely this is to happen. A good Bayesian email filter should be able to operate on a relatively small corpus, keeping track of only those words that are most unique to your email load, and thus not be fooled by a spam which is little more than an image and fifty lines of text copied from some random source.
The article doesn't say the processor will have 64-bit extensions. The article doesn't say anything.
Some quotes:
"The Pentium V is likely..."
"The processor we believe..."
"The final design of this arrangement is not set in stone."
"...details have not been confirmed,..."
"... the source claimed..."
"The Pentium V could have..."
"...although this may be reserved for the next chip along, the Nehalem"
This isn't news, this is BS speculation.
Actually, we don't bother trying to filter out wind noise from a window read, we just "listen" to an object in the room.
When they were talking about child porn being found on Kazza, I wondered if they ever bothered to look at the Britney Spears video clips they were putting out.
Are you seriously stating that some Britney Spears tease of a video has ANY resemblance to child porn? I hope you were being hyperbolic, for as disgusting as some RIAA members actions might be, they don't begin to compare to child porn.
And do you honestly think "the RIAA and it's affiliates have contributed to the destruction of the morals in the US"? How do you destroy morals? Have your morals degraded due to their behavior? Or have only the morals of all the people out there without your amazing powers of resistance been degraded?
Doh!
My Bad!
2) Get insurance. You like your house right?
IANAWD, but I am curious what you are in fear of being sued for. If I follow tip #1 (get incorporated) I don't see the reason to get insurance. Maintain the corporate veil and let the devil care if you are sued.
I am also a firm believer that you are more likely to be sued if the other side's lawyers see the potential for a fat insurance payout. Use the corporation to protect your assets.
I would also have to believe that a web designer's name and reputation is worth more than any corporate physical assets that insurance could protect.
From the website you mentioned:
I thank you for the tip, but it does have a rather sucky limit.
On the count of three you make an ink with the properties needed for an inkjet printer, and I'll make a methanol and water cocktail. We'll see who finishes first.