exactly! and also most companies policies to change your password every few months and having a requirement for length, character type, etc making the typing quite unnatural compared to usual taking a while for the password to be typed consistently (just about long enough to need to change it).
in any case, im at work and hungover, i definitely would have fudged it this morning
To be fair your final analogy is flawed. It would be more like buying 30 year bonds with 10% coupons but low yield as opposed to buying 5% coupon 5 year bonds with a higher yield. You dont know how much time will push up the cost, and the 30 years can outperform the 5 years if things happen in a certain way (as with everything in life).
Im not an environmentalist, but investing in power which doesnt require much outside input to generate is something Im for. I feel that we are suffering undeservedly due to a bunch of retards who got too many people scared of nuclear power, which in my opinion is the best option in the medium term and even long term.
Youd have to invest in "renewable" sources for the prices to come down, the technologies would mature with time, become more cost and space efficient (up to a certain level) and you cant tell me that the first computer ever built was a waste of time, and I can bet you that there were more than enough people that could add up several hundred times faster than it took to input the question at the time and see where we are now...
PORNseek, hardware porn accelerator. Identifies and assists with porn viewing using hardware accelerated video streaming, automatic identification and filtering of media by user preference... etc, etc...
Im all for space elevators, but i wouldnt disregard "bridges" between continents. I would really like to see a calculation as to how long it would take for a floating flexible tunnel, evacuated of air making a completely frictionless (more or less) maglev going from london to new york, to pay for itself. Fuel costs would be near 0 (accelerate to a few hundred miles an hour, decelerate (regaining energy) at the end. throw some in to keep the path and speed right. Anyone?
Im only doing 3 years, going to work as a trader come august. Dont spend any time in lectures, know more or less no one on my course (about 5 people and all through a mate from halls in the first year). Spend 3 days a week during term in london and the rest pissing around. Going mad is inevitable if you stick around. Im finished by june 7th luckily, but most of my friends at other unis are much closer, some having finished already.
You meet someone outside warwick and mention MORSE, they think morse-code... Im rarely amused. Need to get out of here, more academia than Warwick. Not long left. Good luck with your exams, just sat a lovely paper in Bayesian Forecasting and Intervention having been to no lectures and only picked up the notes/past papers yesterday. Story of my life.
Over 4 'quid' for a pint of hoegaarden, and im willing to pay if i choose to head to a pub, try to avoid wetherspoons if at all possible. Usually head down to majestic where I have a friend sort me out with a nice discount on crates of Asahi and have friends over, watch movies, much nicer environment than a pub, more comfortable, choice as to what to watch, gamecube in the corner if we're in the mood. Have a friend studying at York and it is grim up there, but cheap so the cold and darkness is easier to bear:) Im at Warwick Uni, living in Leamington, everyones in walking distance as is every bar, pub and club in town. And even then i prefer to drive down to london, stay with my brother and pay the equivalent of $15 a drink at a club. Then again, factoring the girlfriend in explains the latter case.
Not to mention income taxes are substantially higher in the UK than the us, and GDP per head is lower...
I often take trips to the states to get hardware, eg digital cameras, laptops, etc. Friends ask me to bring them back a Vaio, or something along those lines. Technically I am smuggling, though even if I were to declare the products and pay the import duty i'd still be getting the products for over 50% less, and thats without claiming back US taxes. An even better location is somewhere like Singapore, Hong Kong or KL but dont travel there as frequently. You might get a slightly different keyboard layout, but thats not a problem for most, especially considering the hundreds of pounds saved.
The dollar was even cheaper in the 80s, but todays value is very near the 10 year peak... Hopefully it'll turn around calmly without any drastic changes.
There should be a piece of software bundled with a camera to rescale the photo for emailing/sending over IM. Most users dont have the patience to do it manually, and taking photos at a lower resolution limits scope for their future use (maybe a photo will come out great and theyll want it blown up? or theres some little detail there?) Maybe if camera photo albums automatically created 2 folders (i know disk space, blah, blah) with one set to the native resolution of the camera, and the other with, say, 1280x768 or the like for other uses? I resize my photos, well, have photoshop do it for me, if im going to be sending them, but it is a lot of hassle, especially if im not near a computer with at least some software for it...
look at highger end cameras, the problem there lies not with the CCD sensors in getting several photos a seconds, its the memory. CCDs are not the problem here, its the rest of the hardware. I own a nikon D70, a low end Digital-SLR and that can take around 4 photos a second continuously for a good 10 seconds before the buffer gets full and thats with and 80x Compact Flash card. Consumer cameras arent designed for that, even the higher end ones have buffers which hold at most 3 photos at top quality and resolution. And thats JPEGs not raw data...
A monopoly is defined (economically, not legally) as an entitiy that has greater than 25% market share in its given industry. This is a rather ambiguous definition (contrary to how simple it sounds) as if you take the coca-cola company, they are a definite monopoly (according to the above definition) in the soft drinks industry, but if you expand it to drinks industry that quickly disappears, especially looking at volume as water, beer, etc are factored in.
In the same way intel is a definite monopoly in the PC CPU industry, and almost definitely the PC Motherboard Chipset insudtry but if you expand it to CPUs in general, youre taking into acount the likes of the firms that make Mobile Phone and Calculator CPUs, you can expand still further (chip makers, factoring in ram, GPU, etc...)
So yes, Intel can be 'remotely' considered a monopoly, economically, and given their actions, legally (though, again, ambiguety), but AMD is getting close to the economic definition thereof (as you can probably tell, the economic definition allows for up to 3 monopolies in a given industry... dont ask)
well, 93 million a day. i apologise for being petty.
texting (sending an sms message) is much more popular in the UK and europe in general than it is in the states, mainly because initially the infrastructure was terrible, a very large proportion of messages were lost when sending abroad or to other networks, this has been resolved but people in general do not have the same sense of trust in the technology as they do in other countries.
imagine that in your first year of emailing more than half of your emails did not get through. this is looking through the eyes of a consumer, say you sent your first email in '98 and it didnt go through, what would you think of email? you might avoid it for a while, the same seems to have happened with sms in the states.
i agree entirely with your point as to the misleading figures, its appalling that someone would write that, especially considering the fact that it could be much more dramatic with the US population sending 700 million a year and the uk upwards of 30 BILLION.
and another point, virgin is nowhere near being a leading UK mobile phone company, the big four are 02, Vodafone, Orange and T-Mobile, with 3 doing a very good job of catching up (3 is an exclusively 3g network, i am not sure who they are owned by).
How about a 50km long horizontal run up using magnetic acceleration, followed by a gradual (lateral Gs to take into account) curve up to vertical (or near it) followed by a booster. Of course this wouldnt create enough speed without the boosters without killing any astronauts, but the given kinetic energy from initial exterior acceleration should do a lot of good in making rockets and whatnot much more efficient (less fuel to carry, larger loads, etc), maybe even have ballast launched from the ground off which the ships could "jump" as you arent using any on board fuel to accelerate them?
As AC posted a magnetic accelerator would be much more efficient than trying to use ramps and pulleys. Why not just build a mile high column with a large underground power station (hell, why not even dig down to start, have the column submerged in the ground to allow for greater stability, 1 mile down, 1 mile up and use geothermic energy? A 2 mile long vertical magnetic accelerator is bound to build up considerable speed, or at least enough to launch the vessel another mile or two up from where boosters can kick in?
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exactly! and also most companies policies to change your password every few months and having a requirement for length, character type, etc making the typing quite unnatural compared to usual taking a while for the password to be typed consistently (just about long enough to need to change it).
in any case, im at work and hungover, i definitely would have fudged it this morning
a blackberry lets you take a dump while emailing your favourite collegue :)
To be fair your final analogy is flawed. It would be more like buying 30 year bonds with 10% coupons but low yield as opposed to buying 5% coupon 5 year bonds with a higher yield. You dont know how much time will push up the cost, and the 30 years can outperform the 5 years if things happen in a certain way (as with everything in life).
Im not an environmentalist, but investing in power which doesnt require much outside input to generate is something Im for. I feel that we are suffering undeservedly due to a bunch of retards who got too many people scared of nuclear power, which in my opinion is the best option in the medium term and even long term.
Youd have to invest in "renewable" sources for the prices to come down, the technologies would mature with time, become more cost and space efficient (up to a certain level) and you cant tell me that the first computer ever built was a waste of time, and I can bet you that there were more than enough people that could add up several hundred times faster than it took to input the question at the time and see where we are now...
What is the best program for windows to play DVDs from any region?
PORNseek, hardware porn accelerator. Identifies and assists with porn viewing using hardware accelerated video streaming, automatic identification and filtering of media by user preference... etc, etc...
And having to crash at 4,500 mph to stop... I think ill stick to fossils
Im all for space elevators, but i wouldnt disregard "bridges" between continents. I would really like to see a calculation as to how long it would take for a floating flexible tunnel, evacuated of air making a completely frictionless (more or less) maglev going from london to new york, to pay for itself. Fuel costs would be near 0 (accelerate to a few hundred miles an hour, decelerate (regaining energy) at the end. throw some in to keep the path and speed right. Anyone?
I, for one, welcome our new red 350mph overlords...
passwords for anything? sounds a bit like linux to me...
You have officially ruined my life.
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well... there should be a warning!
there is
no there... IT SHOULD BE IN BIG BOLD LETTERS!
Of spinning metal disks? May I ask what youve been eating?
Im only doing 3 years, going to work as a trader come august. Dont spend any time in lectures, know more or less no one on my course (about 5 people and all through a mate from halls in the first year). Spend 3 days a week during term in london and the rest pissing around. Going mad is inevitable if you stick around. Im finished by june 7th luckily, but most of my friends at other unis are much closer, some having finished already.
You meet someone outside warwick and mention MORSE, they think morse-code... Im rarely amused. Need to get out of here, more academia than Warwick. Not long left. Good luck with your exams, just sat a lovely paper in Bayesian Forecasting and Intervention having been to no lectures and only picked up the notes/past papers yesterday. Story of my life.
Studying MORSE (cue jokes...), im sure you know it, live on the parade just opposite King Baba. Final year so not here for too much longer.
Over 4 'quid' for a pint of hoegaarden, and im willing to pay if i choose to head to a pub, try to avoid wetherspoons if at all possible. Usually head down to majestic where I have a friend sort me out with a nice discount on crates of Asahi and have friends over, watch movies, much nicer environment than a pub, more comfortable, choice as to what to watch, gamecube in the corner if we're in the mood. Have a friend studying at York and it is grim up there, but cheap so the cold and darkness is easier to bear :) Im at Warwick Uni, living in Leamington, everyones in walking distance as is every bar, pub and club in town. And even then i prefer to drive down to london, stay with my brother and pay the equivalent of $15 a drink at a club. Then again, factoring the girlfriend in explains the latter case.
Not to mention income taxes are substantially higher in the UK than the us, and GDP per head is lower...
I often take trips to the states to get hardware, eg digital cameras, laptops, etc. Friends ask me to bring them back a Vaio, or something along those lines. Technically I am smuggling, though even if I were to declare the products and pay the import duty i'd still be getting the products for over 50% less, and thats without claiming back US taxes. An even better location is somewhere like Singapore, Hong Kong or KL but dont travel there as frequently. You might get a slightly different keyboard layout, but thats not a problem for most, especially considering the hundreds of pounds saved.
The dollar was even cheaper in the 80s, but todays value is very near the 10 year peak... Hopefully it'll turn around calmly without any drastic changes.
Only thing i saw of that type was the Boycott ESSO stickers all over the tube in London... Boycotts are nothing in the UK, youre right
There should be a piece of software bundled with a camera to rescale the photo for emailing/sending over IM. Most users dont have the patience to do it manually, and taking photos at a lower resolution limits scope for their future use (maybe a photo will come out great and theyll want it blown up? or theres some little detail there?) Maybe if camera photo albums automatically created 2 folders (i know disk space, blah, blah) with one set to the native resolution of the camera, and the other with, say, 1280x768 or the like for other uses? I resize my photos, well, have photoshop do it for me, if im going to be sending them, but it is a lot of hassle, especially if im not near a computer with at least some software for it...
look at highger end cameras, the problem there lies not with the CCD sensors in getting several photos a seconds, its the memory. CCDs are not the problem here, its the rest of the hardware. I own a nikon D70, a low end Digital-SLR and that can take around 4 photos a second continuously for a good 10 seconds before the buffer gets full and thats with and 80x Compact Flash card. Consumer cameras arent designed for that, even the higher end ones have buffers which hold at most 3 photos at top quality and resolution. And thats JPEGs not raw data...
thats just bullshit
A monopoly is defined (economically, not legally) as an entitiy that has greater than 25% market share in its given industry. This is a rather ambiguous definition (contrary to how simple it sounds) as if you take the coca-cola company, they are a definite monopoly (according to the above definition) in the soft drinks industry, but if you expand it to drinks industry that quickly disappears, especially looking at volume as water, beer, etc are factored in.
In the same way intel is a definite monopoly in the PC CPU industry, and almost definitely the PC Motherboard Chipset insudtry but if you expand it to CPUs in general, youre taking into acount the likes of the firms that make Mobile Phone and Calculator CPUs, you can expand still further (chip makers, factoring in ram, GPU, etc...)
So yes, Intel can be 'remotely' considered a monopoly, economically, and given their actions, legally (though, again, ambiguety), but AMD is getting close to the economic definition thereof (as you can probably tell, the economic definition allows for up to 3 monopolies in a given industry... dont ask)
well, 93 million a day. i apologise for being petty.
texting (sending an sms message) is much more popular in the UK and europe in general than it is in the states, mainly because initially the infrastructure was terrible, a very large proportion of messages were lost when sending abroad or to other networks, this has been resolved but people in general do not have the same sense of trust in the technology as they do in other countries.
imagine that in your first year of emailing more than half of your emails did not get through. this is looking through the eyes of a consumer, say you sent your first email in '98 and it didnt go through, what would you think of email? you might avoid it for a while, the same seems to have happened with sms in the states.
i agree entirely with your point as to the misleading figures, its appalling that someone would write that, especially considering the fact that it could be much more dramatic with the US population sending 700 million a year and the uk upwards of 30 BILLION.
and another point, virgin is nowhere near being a leading UK mobile phone company, the big four are 02, Vodafone, Orange and T-Mobile, with 3 doing a very good job of catching up (3 is an exclusively 3g network, i am not sure who they are owned by).
How about a 50km long horizontal run up using magnetic acceleration, followed by a gradual (lateral Gs to take into account) curve up to vertical (or near it) followed by a booster. Of course this wouldnt create enough speed without the boosters without killing any astronauts, but the given kinetic energy from initial exterior acceleration should do a lot of good in making rockets and whatnot much more efficient (less fuel to carry, larger loads, etc), maybe even have ballast launched from the ground off which the ships could "jump" as you arent using any on board fuel to accelerate them?
Texas... or Siberia but that would be a waste of woodland.
As AC posted a magnetic accelerator would be much more efficient than trying to use ramps and pulleys. Why not just build a mile high column with a large underground power station (hell, why not even dig down to start, have the column submerged in the ground to allow for greater stability, 1 mile down, 1 mile up and use geothermic energy? A 2 mile long vertical magnetic accelerator is bound to build up considerable speed, or at least enough to launch the vessel another mile or two up from where boosters can kick in?