185-190 is well below the boiling point of water (which is how hot most home cofee makers make their water.) BTW, for reference, your hot water heater in your house probably keeps the water arround 140
The question is, is that a bad thing. Now granted, Notepad isn't the most feature filled application in the world, but let's consider. If everything that notepad could ever want to do is loaded into memory and that occupies 2 MB is that better or worse than having notepad only use 500k of memory but need to swap when you access ObscureFeature5?
Free memory (in the sense that it's just empty) is wasted memory.
Idealy your system is more robust than that. To begin with you wouldn't kick a user immediately. Secondly you would do an analysis on to the data. For example while you may not be looking at armadillo porn, you may be looking at kangaroo love, because the company is switchign over.
Furthermore, you often don't even need to be that specific until a human intervenes. The system could just monitor the connection for an odd change in the number of jpgs floating through your connection and flag you, at which point an administrator takes a closer look.
[quote]20 citizens against per 1 soldier seems an awfully low number considering the number who can be killed by a single pilot in an F117 (for example) I would imagine that a single air force base contains enough armament to devastate the entire North American continent. If the government decides to make use of chemical weapons then the number could be even larger. Do you (or any of your armed compatriots, for that matter) possess anything that would be effective against a high-altitude bomber or a stealth fighter? What about against a tank? You could probably shoot down an armed UAV - if you saw it in time...[/quote]
yes, the military has a technological advantage, but if history is any indication (heck if the Iraq war is any indication) no matter how great your technology, you still need soldiers on the ground.
[quote]If you think an armed militia would stand a chance against a modern military force under a competent commander, you are sadly mistaken. Guerilla tactics might work for a while, but eventually the amount of collateral damage a police state deems acceptable will increase to the point that they don't mind killing everyone around you to get to you.[/quote]
Having ruling power is useless with no one to rule. Furthermore, guerilla tactics tend to be quite effective against modern militaries, not because of incompetence but because we haven't reached the point where the soldier doesn't ever need to be there at all. Soldiers have to be on the ground and that makes them targets. And when the soldiers on the ground die, they need to be replaced.
For reference the kill ratios in vietnam were 1 soldier to every 14-18 resistance depending on who you get your numbers from.
[quote]Do you really think you could persuade more than a handful of your countrymen to stand against such odds? [/quote]
This is the rub, and the problem with going arround telling people they should disarm because their arms won't do them any good. Too many people won't stand to such odds (hence the 50% who refuse to take up arms. But then again, these are our homes, people won't take that lying down. Hoever, I think we could improve that if we had a society which didn't actively encourage people to disarm and taught them to believe it was their duty as civilians to be ever vigilant and to fight, even to the death to protect their rights.
I actualy ran the numbers on this a while back, and they may be off now, but here's a rough idea of what it came out to be.
Assuming that 50% of the US population age 18-50 took up arms.
Assuming that the entirety of the US Armed Forces stayed with the government.
Assuming that 20 citizens die for every 1 soldier. You would still have a few million (can't remember the exact number) armed civilians left, not to mention the rest of the population that didn't take up arms.
Even at a rate of 50 : 1 you still have armed civilians left alive as well as the remaining population.
So to tell the truth, yes, I do beleive that firearms CAN protect against a police state.
Even worse, my old middle school used to give these mini-portable word processors to students as part of a pilot program. They had a bunch of features only accesable to teachers via a special password. Unfortunately, that password was "teach". needless to say those features didn't remain teacher only for long.
depends on how much they like having subtitles on their screen. I know that I hate watching things in a language I can understand with subtitles on the screen. It's disracting rather than helpful.
Actualy, I beg to differ. Of all the series I own, I only bought one before having seen the fan sub of it. Simply put, I don't feel like putting money into something which is often hit or miss as the series goes on before having seen whether it keeps my interest. Especialy at a rate of ~25-30 a DVD. Aside from that one series, every other one I own was bought after I had decided that I enjoyed the series after watching the fan subs.
So as far as this customer is concerned, the fan subs are the only thing convincing me to buy these products.
THANKYOU!. I'm glad I'm not the only one that wishes mice were more symetrical. I would love to buy a wireless mouse for my computer to replace my old one, but I can't find a decent wireless mouse that's symetrical.
Actualy it was fairly easy with most of them as they had a little groove on the button to idicate that it was the button and hence up. In fact, just today I came across one that didn't have the grove and I had to double to check because I was used to the grove being there. That said, the mice weren't as bad as people made them out to be, but they did require a different grip. They had to be palmed rather than grabbed.
He still has a legitimate point. I think what needed to be defined was the bounds of rights. You have a right to security and to be safe, but your neighbor has a right to privacy, which under the curent weight (privacy > security) means you can't conduct a spot check to ensure he isn't hoarding explosives. However, if society viewed a right to security as greater than privacy, you may just have that right.
I suggest you try the Apple trackpads. I don't know if it's the accelleration that they use or what, but I've found Apple tackpads to be more comfortable than most PC trackpads.
Because then the keyboard would be off center. I don't know about you, but I hate typing on a laptop where the keybord and trackpad aren't cetnered on the screen. Hell, just look at most desktop users, they shift the keyboard over to the right so that the main keys are centered where they are.
Plenty of reason to give a shit about a speed bump. There are always articles about new processors from the various processor vendors. Hell there was an article about overclocking reaching a new limit.
Connect two laptops together with a CAT 6 patch cable and do some highspeed file transfers. Gigabit is wonderful when trying to transfer 10 - 15 GB of data over a network.
Except for the function keys and the arrow keys, nothing about the powerbook feels cramped at all. All the typing keys are full sized, and perfectly distanced. Having used a powerbook for so long, I can't stand typing on desktop keyboards at all. They have too much space between keys.
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185-190 is well below the boiling point of water (which is how hot most home cofee makers make their water.) BTW, for reference, your hot water heater in your house probably keeps the water arround 140
Difference, is, the inadequate safety precautions are illegal. The specifications on an up comming computer are not.
The question is, is that a bad thing. Now granted, Notepad isn't the most feature filled application in the world, but let's consider. If everything that notepad could ever want to do is loaded into memory and that occupies 2 MB is that better or worse than having notepad only use 500k of memory but need to swap when you access ObscureFeature5?
Free memory (in the sense that it's just empty) is wasted memory.
Idealy your system is more robust than that. To begin with you wouldn't kick a user immediately. Secondly you would do an analysis on to the data. For example while you may not be looking at armadillo porn, you may be looking at kangaroo love, because the company is switchign over.
Furthermore, you often don't even need to be that specific until a human intervenes. The system could just monitor the connection for an odd change in the number of jpgs floating through your connection and flag you, at which point an administrator takes a closer look.
You need both. You need to know when to use one and when to use the other. Even Ghandi thought that disarming civilians was an evil action.
I was just on another forum. whoops.
[quote]20 citizens against per 1 soldier seems an awfully low number considering the number who can be killed by a single pilot in an F117 (for example) I would imagine that a single air force base contains enough armament to devastate the entire North American continent. If the government decides to make use of chemical weapons then the number could be even larger. Do you (or any of your armed compatriots, for that matter) possess anything that would be effective against a high-altitude bomber or a stealth fighter? What about against a tank? You could probably shoot down an armed UAV - if you saw it in time...[/quote]
yes, the military has a technological advantage, but if history is any indication (heck if the Iraq war is any indication) no matter how great your technology, you still need soldiers on the ground.
[quote]If you think an armed militia would stand a chance against a modern military force under a competent commander, you are sadly mistaken. Guerilla tactics might work for a while, but eventually the amount of collateral damage a police state deems acceptable will increase to the point that they don't mind killing everyone around you to get to you.[/quote]
Having ruling power is useless with no one to rule. Furthermore, guerilla tactics tend to be quite effective against modern militaries, not because of incompetence but because we haven't reached the point where the soldier doesn't ever need to be there at all. Soldiers have to be on the ground and that makes them targets. And when the soldiers on the ground die, they need to be replaced.
For reference the kill ratios in vietnam were 1 soldier to every 14-18 resistance depending on who you get your numbers from.
[quote]Do you really think you could persuade more than a handful of your countrymen to stand against such odds?
[/quote]
This is the rub, and the problem with going arround telling people they should disarm because their arms won't do them any good. Too many people won't stand to such odds (hence the 50% who refuse to take up arms. But then again, these are our homes, people won't take that lying down. Hoever, I think we could improve that if we had a society which didn't actively encourage people to disarm and taught them to believe it was their duty as civilians to be ever vigilant and to fight, even to the death to protect their rights.
I actualy ran the numbers on this a while back, and they may be off now, but here's a rough idea of what it came out to be.
Assuming that 50% of the US population age 18-50 took up arms.
Assuming that the entirety of the US Armed Forces stayed with the government.
Assuming that 20 citizens die for every 1 soldier. You would still have a few million (can't remember the exact number) armed civilians left, not to mention the rest of the population that didn't take up arms.
Even at a rate of 50 : 1 you still have armed civilians left alive as well as the remaining population.
So to tell the truth, yes, I do beleive that firearms CAN protect against a police state.
Even worse, my old middle school used to give these mini-portable word processors to students as part of a pilot program. They had a bunch of features only accesable to teachers via a special password. Unfortunately, that password was "teach". needless to say those features didn't remain teacher only for long.
depends on how much they like having subtitles on their screen. I know that I hate watching things in a language I can understand with subtitles on the screen. It's disracting rather than helpful.
Actualy, I beg to differ. Of all the series I own, I only bought one before having seen the fan sub of it. Simply put, I don't feel like putting money into something which is often hit or miss as the series goes on before having seen whether it keeps my interest. Especialy at a rate of ~25-30 a DVD. Aside from that one series, every other one I own was bought after I had decided that I enjoyed the series after watching the fan subs.
So as far as this customer is concerned, the fan subs are the only thing convincing me to buy these products.
THANKYOU!. I'm glad I'm not the only one that wishes mice were more symetrical. I would love to buy a wireless mouse for my computer to replace my old one, but I can't find a decent wireless mouse that's symetrical.
Actualy it was fairly easy with most of them as they had a little groove on the button to idicate that it was the button and hence up. In fact, just today I came across one that didn't have the grove and I had to double to check because I was used to the grove being there. That said, the mice weren't as bad as people made them out to be, but they did require a different grip. They had to be palmed rather than grabbed.
doubt it. The cube flopped for one reason and one reason only:
price.
Even for an apple, the cube was too expensive. But they still sell extemely well and are very popular.
So wait a minute, instead of having an off center keyboard, now we're going to have a nonstandard kayboard? This is a better solution how?
Assult Weapon is a fancy term for "Scary Looking Hunting Rifle"
The constitution also says congress can make all laws nessesary and proper to carry out their powers. The federal reserve was created by act of law.
He still has a legitimate point. I think what needed to be defined was the bounds of rights. You have a right to security and to be safe, but your neighbor has a right to privacy, which under the curent weight (privacy > security) means you can't conduct a spot check to ensure he isn't hoarding explosives. However, if society viewed a right to security as greater than privacy, you may just have that right.
Just the opposite here, we have more ethernet than firewire cables.
I suggest you try the Apple trackpads. I don't know if it's the accelleration that they use or what, but I've found Apple tackpads to be more comfortable than most PC trackpads.
Then again, I also hate trackpoints.
Because then the keyboard would be off center. I don't know about you, but I hate typing on a laptop where the keybord and trackpad aren't cetnered on the screen. Hell, just look at most desktop users, they shift the keyboard over to the right so that the main keys are centered where they are.
Plenty of reason to give a shit about a speed bump. There are always articles about new processors from the various processor vendors. Hell there was an article about overclocking reaching a new limit.
because no one actualy gives a shit about Dell computers, and thus no one bothered to submit the story?
Connect two laptops together with a CAT 6 patch cable and do some highspeed file transfers. Gigabit is wonderful when trying to transfer 10 - 15 GB of data over a network.
Except for the function keys and the arrow keys, nothing about the powerbook feels cramped at all. All the typing keys are full sized, and perfectly distanced. Having used a powerbook for so long, I can't stand typing on desktop keyboards at all. They have too much space between keys.