I'm not sure what his country is - or what country you live in - but it applies to the United States:
Prison sentences for rape are not uniform. A study made by the U.S. Department of Justice of prison releases in 1992, involving about 80 percent of the prison population, found that the average sentence for convicted rapists was 9.8 years, while the actual time served was 5.4 years. This follows the typical pattern for violent crimes in the US, where those convicted typically serve no more than half of their sentence [14]. Between 2002 and 2003, more than one in ten convicted rapists in Australia served a wholly suspended sentence, and the average total effective sentence for rape was seven years [15].
No kidding. I wish there were a section for these stories... I "cringe" every time I see one, and I'd happily disable them if it were possible. There are sections for Apache and BSD, after all, why not one more?
Well, years ago I used a Zalman VGA cooler to replace the tiny shrieking fansink on my ATI 9700 Pro...
ASUS and Gigabyte both make video cards with big heatsinks/heatpipes instead of fansinks. The fastest such card I'm aware of is the ASUS 7800GT TOP Silent
Who says you need a backlight? (Or rather, a backlight that runs all the time, and not just one for use at night.) A good, highly reflective monochrome LCD or a "digital paper" screen would be just fine with me. And I have a GP32 with a big PDA-sized colour screen that is usable in normal light conditions (unlike the original Gameboy Advance).
"And to close on, the Dept of Small Consolations. Some troubledome just figured out that if you allow for every codder and shiggy and appleofmyeye a space one foot by two you could stand us all on the six hundred forty square mile surface of the island of Zanzibar. ToDAY third MAY twenty-TEN come aGAIN!"
One of the main things they've promised with Oblivion is that the NPCs have their own lives and go about their business - they're not just placed somewhere for the sole purpose of meeting you.
So it's only taken them fourteen years to catch up with Ultima VII?
/jk, though that's one of the things that bugged me about Morrowind... amazing 3D graphics, beautiful environment, open-ended gameplay, but NPCs as dumb as rocks - when over a decade ago they were baking bread, going to the tavern, closing windows, sleeping, etc. in Ultima VII.
Heh, I think you mean 6 gigabytes of hard drive space, but you've got a point. (Though I'd probably go with MEPIS.) Even with a boot menu that would automatically boot into windows after a few seconds, giving the option of booting into a nice linux distro would be both educational and useful. I can't see any flaws in providing this for any charity PC.
Does Dell still offer the 30 Day no-questions-asked money back garantee, or have they scrapped that?
They changed it to a "total satisfaction return policy". Nice how they squeeze the 15% restocking fee in there... o_O
8. Return Policies. Under Dell's "Total Satisfaction Return Policy", end-user Customers who buy Dell-branded products directly from Dell may return them to Dell up to 30 days after you receive them for a refund of the product purchase price if already paid. You must prepay return shipping charges and insure the shipment or accept the risk of loss or damage during shipment and the refund credit will not include any shipping and handling charges shown on your invoice, and will be subject to a fifteen percent (15%) restocking fee, unless otherwise prohibited by law. Dell's "Total Satisfaction Return Policy" does not apply to Dell | EMC storage products. Dell's "Total Satisfaction Return Policy" can be found online at www.dell.ca or on request.
Doesn't Samsung's "zero dead pixel policy" only apply in Korea? In any case, I refuse to buy anything with an LCD anywhere except at places that give full refunds if you're unsatisfied in any way with the product. (eg: Future Shop, Staples, London Drugs) Otherwise it's just too much of a pain.
It's a shame, because I was interested in the Dell Latitute X1, but I couldn't find it from a 3rd party vendor, and their Dead Pixel Policy stinks.
Yeah, and the areas of high res seem pretty bizarre sometimes... The town I'm in is entirely low res, except a rectangle containing the airport and a bit of forest to the southwest. Similarly, a nearby town is mostly low res, except for the airport/military base and a bit of ocean.
I have the 350 watt version of the Antec Phantom, which doesn't have a fan. It's been rock-solid since I got it, all through last summer. (Much better than my Zalman "Silent" PSU, which wasn't silent and gave occasional voltage warnings.) I suspect that the only real difference between the two models is the addition of the fan for huge P4 + dual SLI + RAID wattage requirements.
Well, it depends on how you go about it, I suppose. My PC actually runs cooler (and faster) than my old system with the changes I've made - big heatsink on CPU, Gigabyte 6800 which comes with a massive twin heatsink/heatpipe setup attached, energy-efficient Antec Phantom 350 watt CPU, case that can accomodate a big slow-running 120mm fan instead of 80mm fans which would make more noise to produce less airflow, etc.
What's wrong with a PSU being heavy? Presumably a heavier PSU would have larger heatsinks, better electronics and capacitors, etc... The cheapest no-name PSUs are as light as a feather.
Don't forget a keyboard and networking, and I doubt a little black-and-white CRT would be as legible and energy-efficient as the B&W mode of this laptop's display. Also, cludging those parts together would probably result in something a little less than portable...
Then again, it could backfire and the worst policies of each could be implemented...;)
Btw, how is the parent a troll? Heck, I'd suspect many Liberal supporters would at least partially agree - maybe they'll ditch the worst of the lot and get some fresh blood for next time. I can't believe Hedy Fry is still around, though.
Gnomeregan - gnome or gnomer
Uldaman - uld or ulda
Maraudon - mara
Wailing Caverns - WC
Ragefire Chasm - RFC (horde only...and personally I find RFC/RFD/RFK to be confusing sometimes, but that's the names people use)
The parent said "the Chinese managed to wreck several antiviral drugs", not antibacterial drugs. If that's the case, they must be violating a bunch of patents, since even the cheapest ones I can think of would cost more than the chicken if used for more than a couple days. More likely, there just aren't any antivirals that have ever been very helpful for any flu...even the ones approved for (regular) influenza, Tamiflu and Relenza, were almost useless - I haven't seen either for years.
That is rather difficult for some antibiotics... penicillins, for example, are eliminated primarily by being excreted unchanged by the kidney. Early on, urine was collected from patients so that the penicillin could be reused.
As far as actual tablets, etc., go...antibiotics are usually prescribed to be taken until there are no more tablets. If you do have any meds you want to get rid of, please take them to a pharmacy - they should put it in their drug disposal bucket for no charge.
Heh, all of the pics I saw on the site were scaled down considerably, apparently enough to survive a./ing, for now. It'd be neat to see a few of these images at full resolution, though. Maybe a bittorrent...
Carbon sinks don't help too much with some of the nastier stuff in coal. Heck, if it were feasible to completely eliminate any sulphur dioxide, heavy metals, and other pollutants, I wouldn't mind one being built IMBY.
I figure this must be either the result of incompetence (they didn't test it first... should've brought a backup, too, in case the player was damaged on transport to CES) or the machines/discs are so flaky that they could fail at any time.
"Unlike coal or nuclear plants, natural gas plants can be turned on and off at a moments notice and seem to be the power source of choice in today's US market, at least until the coal and/or nuclear people find something to do with excess electricity during the winter, such as making hydrogen."
Right. Because nobody would be interested in cheap electricity for heating...
(You say the prices of fuel oil and natural gas have gone up how much?!)
The only times I've had a Palm crash was with a couple old programs which refused to run on the newest OS, and required a soft reset (after which I deleted 'em). My previous ones (IIIxe, Handera 330, Sony SJ33) never crashed... ever. The only times I saw the boot up screens were when I was too lazy to keep 'em powered, though they were easy to restore from backups.
I'm not sure exactly what you would want in a PDA - you talk about web browsing, but I'd consider anything less than 640x480 on a legible screen to be painful to use. One of those little video players (maybe Archos?) would probably be more suitable for music and audio. Personally, I find having hundreds of megs of drug and medical references in my pocket (as well as a few good novels) to be very useful.
Oh, and for transferring files: I'm not sure why hotsync is so slow, but simply taking out the memory card and copying the files onto it directly is a lot quicker. (If your PDA doesn't have any memory card slot, well, you bought the wrong one.)
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Prison sentences for rape are not uniform. A study made by the U.S. Department of Justice of prison releases in 1992, involving about 80 percent of the prison population, found that the average sentence for convicted rapists was 9.8 years, while the actual time served was 5.4 years. This follows the typical pattern for violent crimes in the US, where those convicted typically serve no more than half of their sentence [14]. Between 2002 and 2003, more than one in ten convicted rapists in Australia served a wholly suspended sentence, and the average total effective sentence for rape was seven years [15].
No kidding. I wish there were a section for these stories... I "cringe" every time I see one, and I'd happily disable them if it were possible. There are sections for Apache and BSD, after all, why not one more?
ASUS and Gigabyte both make video cards with big heatsinks/heatpipes instead of fansinks. The fastest such card I'm aware of is the ASUS 7800GT TOP Silent
Who says you need a backlight? (Or rather, a backlight that runs all the time, and not just one for use at night.) A good, highly reflective monochrome LCD or a "digital paper" screen would be just fine with me. And I have a GP32 with a big PDA-sized colour screen that is usable in normal light conditions (unlike the original Gameboy Advance).
Personally, I'd say that it is overpopulated.
So it's only taken them fourteen years to catch up with Ultima VII?
Uh, don't most email programs store mail as a single large database file, rather than zillions of individual files?
Heh, I think you mean 6 gigabytes of hard drive space, but you've got a point. (Though I'd probably go with MEPIS.) Even with a boot menu that would automatically boot into windows after a few seconds, giving the option of booting into a nice linux distro would be both educational and useful. I can't see any flaws in providing this for any charity PC.
They changed it to a "total satisfaction return policy". Nice how they squeeze the 15% restocking fee in there... o_O
8. Return Policies. Under Dell's "Total Satisfaction Return Policy", end-user Customers who buy Dell-branded products directly from Dell may return them to Dell up to 30 days after you receive them for a refund of the product purchase price if already paid. You must prepay return shipping charges and insure the shipment or accept the risk of loss or damage during shipment and the refund credit will not include any shipping and handling charges shown on your invoice, and will be subject to a fifteen percent (15%) restocking fee, unless otherwise prohibited by law. Dell's "Total Satisfaction Return Policy" does not apply to Dell | EMC storage products. Dell's "Total Satisfaction Return Policy" can be found online at www.dell.ca or on request.
It's a shame, because I was interested in the Dell Latitute X1, but I couldn't find it from a 3rd party vendor, and their Dead Pixel Policy stinks.
Yeah, and the areas of high res seem pretty bizarre sometimes... The town I'm in is entirely low res, except a rectangle containing the airport and a bit of forest to the southwest. Similarly, a nearby town is mostly low res, except for the airport/military base and a bit of ocean.
I have the 350 watt version of the Antec Phantom, which doesn't have a fan. It's been rock-solid since I got it, all through last summer. (Much better than my Zalman "Silent" PSU, which wasn't silent and gave occasional voltage warnings.) I suspect that the only real difference between the two models is the addition of the fan for huge P4 + dual SLI + RAID wattage requirements.
Well, it depends on how you go about it, I suppose. My PC actually runs cooler (and faster) than my old system with the changes I've made - big heatsink on CPU, Gigabyte 6800 which comes with a massive twin heatsink/heatpipe setup attached, energy-efficient Antec Phantom 350 watt CPU, case that can accomodate a big slow-running 120mm fan instead of 80mm fans which would make more noise to produce less airflow, etc.
What's wrong with a PSU being heavy? Presumably a heavier PSU would have larger heatsinks, better electronics and capacitors, etc... The cheapest no-name PSUs are as light as a feather.
And 8 corners, which I think is how he meant it.
Don't forget a keyboard and networking, and I doubt a little black-and-white CRT would be as legible and energy-efficient as the B&W mode of this laptop's display. Also, cludging those parts together would probably result in something a little less than portable...
Btw, how is the parent a troll? Heck, I'd suspect many Liberal supporters would at least partially agree - maybe they'll ditch the worst of the lot and get some fresh blood for next time. I can't believe Hedy Fry is still around, though.
Gnomeregan - gnome or gnomer
Uldaman - uld or ulda
Maraudon - mara
Wailing Caverns - WC
Ragefire Chasm - RFC (horde only...and personally I find RFC/RFD/RFK to be confusing sometimes, but that's the names people use)
The parent said "the Chinese managed to wreck several antiviral drugs", not antibacterial drugs. If that's the case, they must be violating a bunch of patents, since even the cheapest ones I can think of would cost more than the chicken if used for more than a couple days. More likely, there just aren't any antivirals that have ever been very helpful for any flu...even the ones approved for (regular) influenza, Tamiflu and Relenza, were almost useless - I haven't seen either for years.
As far as actual tablets, etc., go...antibiotics are usually prescribed to be taken until there are no more tablets. If you do have any meds you want to get rid of, please take them to a pharmacy - they should put it in their drug disposal bucket for no charge.
Heh, all of the pics I saw on the site were scaled down considerably, apparently enough to survive a ./ing, for now. It'd be neat to see a few of these images at full resolution, though. Maybe a bittorrent...
Carbon sinks don't help too much with some of the nastier stuff in coal. Heck, if it were feasible to completely eliminate any sulphur dioxide, heavy metals, and other pollutants, I wouldn't mind one being built IMBY.
I figure this must be either the result of incompetence (they didn't test it first... should've brought a backup, too, in case the player was damaged on transport to CES) or the machines/discs are so flaky that they could fail at any time.
Right. Because nobody would be interested in cheap electricity for heating...
(You say the prices of fuel oil and natural gas have gone up how much?!)
I'm not sure exactly what you would want in a PDA - you talk about web browsing, but I'd consider anything less than 640x480 on a legible screen to be painful to use. One of those little video players (maybe Archos?) would probably be more suitable for music and audio. Personally, I find having hundreds of megs of drug and medical references in my pocket (as well as a few good novels) to be very useful.
Oh, and for transferring files: I'm not sure why hotsync is so slow, but simply taking out the memory card and copying the files onto it directly is a lot quicker. (If your PDA doesn't have any memory card slot, well, you bought the wrong one.)