Exactly. Make you think they're spying on you when in reality they could care less. The citizens police themselves via paranoia.
Heck they could just float a bunch of balloons in the air in stationary positions and they'd just have dead weights attached to them. Nobody would know the difference.
We'd only have net reduction if everyone is equally screwed by the treaty. That's why the United States won't ratify Kyoto. It doesn't hinder "developing countries" like China and India.
Even if we sign it, we wouldn't be able to uphold it. The same is true of most European countries. There were only two that managed to reduce their emissions to be in line with Kyoto, the United Kingdom being one of them.
I guess they figure if you're "that hardcore" in the audio department that you'll fork out a couple hundred for a top-of-the-line sound card anyways. The average Joe can survive with the Microsoft SW synth for MIDI output.
IIRC nVidia sold SoundStorm to Creative Labs (this is hearsay, don't take my word for it). That's why after the nForce2 they stopped using SoundStorm. It was written off because nVidia figured "most people" didn't know how to use the onboard Dolby Digital decoder and the feature wasn't in high demand.
IMO they didn't even need an onboard Dolby Digital decoder. They could've shelved that and made a generic onboard sound system in hardware (rather than RealTek's ALC garbage that uses the CPU) to beat the crap out of RealTek and Creative Labs.
Depends on the state, actually. Some states rescind your right to vote whereas others will reinstate such rights when you're freed and off of probation.
AFAIK, you only lose your citizenship status if you are exiled. You don't lose your citizenship upon being convicted of a felony.
1. I sliced my right pinky finger open when attempting to pry a floppy cover off a new InWin case (they don't bevel the edges). Some thirteen stitches and an hour wasted, I still got the new PC built. Oddly enough, there was no blood in the case, although there was plenty everywhere else.
2. After achieving 45 days uptime on an XP box I shut the thing down (on my birthday, no less) and proceeded to vacuum out the case. Silly me. It never powered up again. Had to buy a new motherboard.
I doubt he could pull it off with only a $3K budget. Cuz if he could, it'd set off a political firestorm over the insane amounts of grant funding the government forks out for these things.
He was an idiot for accepting stock over a cheque, but it's likely he wasn't expecting his corporate counterparts to be idiots as well for merging with AOL. After all, they're supposed to be smarter than him if they managed to dupe him into accepting stock as compensation.
The fact that the sanctions were suspended is enough of a "win" for Microsoft -- if this is how the EU handles court rulings, then all it takes is a redundant series of appeals to indefinitely suspend the sanctions.
Ideally, the sanctions would remain, despite the appeal, much like how in the 'States a convicted felon doesn't get his sentence suspended -- he continues to serve his time, despite the appeals process, and if he wins (presuming he doesn't die of old age first) he's released.
You should see the mess Ion Storm made with Deus Ex: Invisible War. Hearing that Thief: DS would be based on the same engine was all I needed to hear to decide not to buy it.
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Heck they could just float a bunch of balloons in the air in stationary positions and they'd just have dead weights attached to them. Nobody would know the difference.
s/geosyncronous/geosynchronous.
But none of the desire. He stated during the campaign that he doesn't want to be part of Bush's cabinet. Hence my comment regarding dreaming.
Giuliani.
Well, I can dream, can't I?
Better that than be both economically and environmentally screwed while countries like China both prosper and pollute like crazy.
-2 from the US, +50 from China?
I don't see your point.
We'd only have net reduction if everyone is equally screwed by the treaty. That's why the United States won't ratify Kyoto. It doesn't hinder "developing countries" like China and India.
Even if we sign it, we wouldn't be able to uphold it. The same is true of most European countries. There were only two that managed to reduce their emissions to be in line with Kyoto, the United Kingdom being one of them.
Yes, but the Republicans gained seats in the 2002 midterm elections.
Anyone remember those?
Seems Bush has a history of defying history.
I guess they figure if you're "that hardcore" in the audio department that you'll fork out a couple hundred for a top-of-the-line sound card anyways. The average Joe can survive with the Microsoft SW synth for MIDI output.
IIRC nVidia sold SoundStorm to Creative Labs (this is hearsay, don't take my word for it). That's why after the nForce2 they stopped using SoundStorm. It was written off because nVidia figured "most people" didn't know how to use the onboard Dolby Digital decoder and the feature wasn't in high demand.
IMO they didn't even need an onboard Dolby Digital decoder. They could've shelved that and made a generic onboard sound system in hardware (rather than RealTek's ALC garbage that uses the CPU) to beat the crap out of RealTek and Creative Labs.
This looks like a libel suit waiting to happen.
Depends on the state, actually. Some states rescind your right to vote whereas others will reinstate such rights when you're freed and off of probation.
AFAIK, you only lose your citizenship status if you are exiled. You don't lose your citizenship upon being convicted of a felony.
They're journalists. That's their job.
1. I sliced my right pinky finger open when attempting to pry a floppy cover off a new InWin case (they don't bevel the edges). Some thirteen stitches and an hour wasted, I still got the new PC built. Oddly enough, there was no blood in the case, although there was plenty everywhere else.
2. After achieving 45 days uptime on an XP box I shut the thing down (on my birthday, no less) and proceeded to vacuum out the case. Silly me. It never powered up again. Had to buy a new motherboard.
Indeed. I've always shipped FedEx if I have a choice in the matter. FedEx has always been good to me.
UPS hasn't been that bad in my encounters either though. The ones to avoid is USPS. God damn they take forever to ship.
As if you'd notice the change in temperature.
I doubt he could pull it off with only a $3K budget. Cuz if he could, it'd set off a political firestorm over the insane amounts of grant funding the government forks out for these things.
He was an idiot for accepting stock over a cheque, but it's likely he wasn't expecting his corporate counterparts to be idiots as well for merging with AOL. After all, they're supposed to be smarter than him if they managed to dupe him into accepting stock as compensation.
The fact that the sanctions were suspended is enough of a "win" for Microsoft -- if this is how the EU handles court rulings, then all it takes is a redundant series of appeals to indefinitely suspend the sanctions.
Ideally, the sanctions would remain, despite the appeal, much like how in the 'States a convicted felon doesn't get his sentence suspended -- he continues to serve his time, despite the appeals process, and if he wins (presuming he doesn't die of old age first) he's released.
I consider "practically nonexistant support after a couple of half-assed patches" to be one of its problems.
You should see the mess Ion Storm made with Deus Ex: Invisible War. Hearing that Thief: DS would be based on the same engine was all I needed to hear to decide not to buy it.
They were the "content.notify" tweaks, ontimer, interval, and backoffcount.
I only had that problem when I applied the UI tweak that forces the browser to redraw more often than it's defaulted to.
Forgot which one it is though since I lost all that to a reformat.
Yes there is. Type "shutdown -s" in the run box. :)