Why go see a movie when you can buy the DVD in a few months for the price of two tickets?
They show so much in the previews, I feel like I've already seen the movies. Remember the 'Alien' (or was it 'Aliens') trailer that just had the egg cracking open? Compare that to the new Fantastic 4 trailer, or even the 20th anniversary Alien trailer.
I don't like how the MPAA is suing people and trying to limit what I can do with movies I buy. Going to fewer movies is a form of protest for me.
Ticket prices are getting worse
Concession prices are getting worse
I think the biggest reason though is the quality of movies coming out. Are they seriously surprised that "Stealth", "Herbie: Fully Loaded", "Bewitched", "The Bad News Bears", and "The Island" didn't do well?
BestCrypt (about $60 or 60 Euro also) creates a virtual drive into an ecrypted file and has versions available for Windows and Linux. Their SDK is free and includes source code at least for the encryption algorithms to verify they are safe and lets you plug in your own. The same file can be used in windows and linux and can even be accessed on a network share since the data is decrypted as it is used, sniffers would only see encrypted data being transferred.
It also includes the ability to use hidden volumes. You use one password and the file opens up normally, if you use another you can access a hidden volume in the file. After creating a hidden volume you shouldn't modify the non-hidden volume contents as it could overwrite your hidden data, but there is no way to tell there's a hidden volume without guessing the second password.
Mod parent up! I haven't installed RealPlayer on my Windows box in years because of the spyware, reporting, and tray icon crap. Real Alternative works great.
Ok, that's a little helpful. Wikipedia was a little more helpful. So peat is partially decomposed vegetable matter, which will continue to decompose when unfrozen, right? So when unfrozen, will the moss will keep growing and refilling the decaying vegetable matter so that it will be a continual supply of methane?
Using the 540 megabyte Maxtor drive you bought 10 years ago to gauge the reliability of their current drives isn't wise. The design of course has changed a lot as would have their production facilities.
Recently my company got me a dell XPS Gen 3 with three Maxtor 160gb hard drives (two in a RAID 1 array). Just a few months after I got it, both drives failed, the ones in the RAID 1 mirror. That blew, though I was able to recover data from one of the drives. I also just recently had one of my external 250gb maxtor drives fail on me. I now have just two good drives (one more external and one of the 160gb ones) out of five for a 6 month period.
When I called Dell support, they sent me Seagate drives instead. I'm only guessing here, but they may have had so many bad Maxtors that they got tired of replacing them over and over.
What exactly is Peat? Does it produce methane? Will it grow and keep producing methane each year? How long will it take the methane to degrade? What increase in global concentrations of methane can we see? Can we plant something else there, crops or trees to trap CO2?
I wish "New Scientist" stories would have more science in them, this seems pretty sensationalist.
I had a similar experience at Best Buy. This was back in like 94 when single-spin CDRom drives were still fairly pricey. I bought one and didn't know the shrink-wrap job wasn't the same since it was the last one. When I got home, it had a floppy drive with newspaper packing. When I took it back they had to get the manager, they probably thought I was trying to pull something on them.
He is using the definition of the original poster though, the post he is replying to misinterpreted it. I believe they were imagining the "Earth" as the origin and the satellite as the destination, therefore the trip to the satellite and back to the earth would be a round trip. I know it's not perfect, but if you fly from Midway airport in Chicago to NY and come back to Ohare, wouldn't you consider that a round trip? I do see your point, but the trip to the target of the ping would be like flying from New York, connecting in Los Angeles, and coming back to New Jersey.
In any case, he was correct to point out that the parent was incorrect in saying that it had to be doubled again to 1000 ms.
I like Tepples's answer. Also they seem to have mentioned the terms of use of the Fed Ex website. Maybe since he ordered boxes through the website, they are saying he violated the terms of use since they weren't for shipping.
And if you're not an educational institution, you should be denied ".edu". But I think that one is still in force. So where should I put my personal website?
I tried this and it didn't work. I know we had the connection info and everything ok because we were able to start MP and do it without bots. Plus it's only the small maps for 16 player. I did get MP to work with bots on ONE computer by running BF2.exe in dedicated server mode (not the normal dediated BF2_w32ded.exe). This web page got me started.
Well balanced classes - Medics and Engineers are of more use than before, anti-tank is actually useful now that it takes less than 3 hits to kill a tank
Online play works well and is fun
Graphics and sound are much improved over BF1942
Quick commands is a great idea. Now you can point at an enemy and quickly mark them as spotted to your teamates, as well as call for a pickup, repair, healing, or ammo.
New commander and squad abilities are neat, if you can figure them out
Bad:
The manual just plain SUCKS. There's not really anything in it to show you how to use the new Squad and Commander capabilities, and I couldn't find them on the web.
No multiplayer coop - playing against a few friends at a lan party with bots for backup was one of my favorite things to do in BF 1942.
Finding a server and getting on with my friends isn't as easy as it could be, why not connect with friends and be able to find servers that will let you join as a group?
Creating an online account involved starting BF2 three times and exiting three times when clicking to view the agreements and privacy policies. Each took about 15 minutes to read.
You need a new video card, not because you couldn't play without but because the designers just decided to use the new shader model. If you don't have an acceptable video card, the game just quits to the desktop with no information. There's a hack out there to enable play with older cards and they play fine but might not look quite as good, why didn't they include the capability at least in the game?
Loading maps takes too long - there's a 'Client data validation' that takes over a minute on one of my computers (3gz P4) every time I connect to a map.
You need the CD/DVD in the drive to play. I know this is standard, but I fail to see the reason when you have each install attached to a KEY too that I'm sure is checked when you play multiplayer. I like playing on my work computer and my home computer, why do I have to lug the DVD around? There's a NOCD hack already or I wouldn't have bought the game.
SELECT UserId, COUNT(*) AS ItemCount INTO #BadUsers FROM Items INNER JOIN Auctions ON Auctions.ItemId = Items.ItemId WHERE ItemDescription = 'Krol Blade' GROUP BY UserId HAVING COUNT(*) > 2
UPDATE [User] SET Banned = 1, Reason = 'Duping items' WHERE UserID IN (SELECT UserId FROM #BadUsers)
I think the unique IDs are created when the object first enters the world as loot from a kill or chest, or from a vendor. When trading to another player, the item should keep the ID I believe. What caused the lag when looting corpses and the getting stuck in the crouching position shortly after launch was the large influx into the newbie areas and the strain on the ID creation from all the quick and easy kills.
This doesn't make any sense. I guess one reason I'm skeptical of the "it takes more energy to produce ethanol" argument is that the arguers just don't make sense. I wish I saw the actual study with how he calculated his figures and where the data he relies upon comes from.
* Ethanol from corn costs about $1.74 per gallon to produce, compared with about 95 cents to produce a gallon of gasoline. "That helps explain why fossil fuels -- not ethanol -- are used to produce ethanol," Pimentel said. "The growers and processors can't afford to burn ethanol to make ethanol. U.S. drivers couldn't afford it either, if it weren't for government subsidies to artificially lower the price."
Wouldn't the growers get the same subsidies since they are just discounts in tax? How does he know growers don't use ethanol?
* Most economic analyses of corn-to-ethanol production overlook the costs of environmental damages, which Pimentel says should add another 23 cents per gallon. "Corn production in the U.S. erodes soil about 12 times faster than the soil can be reformed, and irrigating corn mines groundwater 25 percent faster than the natural recharge rate of ground water.
Well, we had all better become vegitarians since it takes about 10 times the vegetable matter to raise livestock to give us the same calories. And pumping groundwater up and back to the ground is just going to do away with all the water. Seriously, does he think we should stop growing crops? Where does he get $0.23 per gallon, out of his butt? By my calculations, that's almost $90 per acre of crops per year. And it's not the production of ethanol that is the problem, it's the production of crops at all. We had better shut down all our farms, eh?
* The average U.S. automobile, traveling 10,000 miles a year on pure ethanol (not a gasoline-ethanol mix), would need about 852 gallons of the corn-based fuel. This would take 11 acres to grow, based on net ethanol production. This is the same amount of cropland required to feed seven Americans.
The 852 gallons is right, if the AVERAGE car is 15 mpg. What about the 11 acres? I found you get 2.6 gallons from a bushel of corn, and you can get 150 bushels per acre of corn. That's 390 gallons of ethanol per acre, so just over 2 acres for that person.
This doesn't even agree with his numbers earlier where he says the cost is $347 per acre, equating to $1.05 per gallon of ethanol just to make the corn. That says to me that you should get 330 gallons of ethanol per acre, not 852/11=77. Either he's making up numbers or using different numbers to try and confuse.
The feds have been subsidizing Ethanol for two decades. With cheap and plentiful gasoline and virtually no ethanol production facilities, this was required to build up the industry. Gasoline will not last us forever, although those tenacious drillers and oil companies do seem to keep finding new oil fields and better ways to extract the oil. In the mean time, ethanol has caught up to them. There is a 51 cent per gallon tax credit for using ethanol. That works out to 5 center per gallon of unleaded. Where I live, 90 octane 90/10 blended ethanol gasoline costs 12 cents cheaper than 89 octane unleaded. Seems to me that ethanol is actually cheaper now.
What we need to do now is to get cars that can run on 80/20 and 70/30 blends and to get gas stations to provide the fuel. When pure gasoline costs $2.50 a gallon and you can buy 70/30 blended ethanol for $2.00 WITHOUT the subsidy, I think that'll wake a lot of people up.
I know this gets pointed out every time some idiot bring up this incident, but that lawsuit wasn't frivilous. McDonald's brews it's coffee from 195 to 200 degrees and maintains it at 180-190. That's over 20 degrees hotter than other places and enough to cause serious burns in mere seconds. At 190 degrees it only takes three seconds to produce a third degree burn. Most people are unaware that spilling their coffee would cause third degree burns in three seconds. McDonalds' in fact was the only company around that served coffee that hot.
From McDonald's own executives testimony, the jurors found they had a calous disregard for the safety of their customers. She was awarded $160,000 for compensatory damages, plus $2.7 million in punitive damages. That equated to two days worth of coffee sales at McDonald's at the time. Some jurors unsuccessfully argued for up to $9.6 million in damages. The judge lowered the punitive damages to $480,000 and they later settled for even less.
The punitive damages were awarded because McDonalds knew their coffee could cause horrible burns and did nothing about it except to say that contents were hot on the cup. Of course coffee would be hot, but few people took that to mean that they could cause third degree burns in as little as 3 seconds. After seeing the horrible pictures of the woman's burns, McDonalds had someone testify that since they sold so much coffee, the people that were burned were statistically insignificant. The jury realized that no matter how small the number, there was a person behind each one that had a horrible experience like this 80 year old woman.
But they won't look as good. If you want the keys to glow you would need some kind of backlight, which would use more power than OLED. The amount of power used by OLED is small enough that it's not a big deal. You can either use your 21" CRT for 5 minutes or power your OLED keyboard for 24 hours. The computer probably uses more power when turned off than would be used to light the keyboard.
"Space" is infinite, but the LaGrange points are not. The further from the center you are, the more you have to use your thrusters to keep from flying to remote parts of the solar system. It's like balancing a pencil on it's point. If the pencil gets to far to any side, it will go off in that direction.
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- Why go see a movie when you can buy the DVD in a few months for the price of two tickets?
- They show so much in the previews, I feel like I've already seen the movies. Remember the 'Alien' (or was it 'Aliens') trailer that just had the egg cracking open? Compare that to the new Fantastic 4 trailer, or even the 20th anniversary Alien trailer.
- I don't like how the MPAA is suing people and trying to limit what I can do with movies I buy. Going to fewer movies is a form of protest for me.
- Ticket prices are getting worse
- Concession prices are getting worse
I think the biggest reason though is the quality of movies coming out. Are they seriously surprised that "Stealth", "Herbie: Fully Loaded", "Bewitched", "The Bad News Bears", and "The Island" didn't do well?It also includes the ability to use hidden volumes. You use one password and the file opens up normally, if you use another you can access a hidden volume in the file. After creating a hidden volume you shouldn't modify the non-hidden volume contents as it could overwrite your hidden data, but there is no way to tell there's a hidden volume without guessing the second password.
Mod parent up! I haven't installed RealPlayer on my Windows box in years because of the spyware, reporting, and tray icon crap. Real Alternative works great.
I thought that was the baseball game where you could play all the AAA teams like the Bertendorf Mudthumpers...
not records :) I don't know what he means by 'user' though, simultaneous users, or users that login once a week causing just a few queries to be run?
Ok, that's a little helpful. Wikipedia was a little more helpful. So peat is partially decomposed vegetable matter, which will continue to decompose when unfrozen, right? So when unfrozen, will the moss will keep growing and refilling the decaying vegetable matter so that it will be a continual supply of methane?
Recently my company got me a dell XPS Gen 3 with three Maxtor 160gb hard drives (two in a RAID 1 array). Just a few months after I got it, both drives failed, the ones in the RAID 1 mirror. That blew, though I was able to recover data from one of the drives. I also just recently had one of my external 250gb maxtor drives fail on me. I now have just two good drives (one more external and one of the 160gb ones) out of five for a 6 month period.
When I called Dell support, they sent me Seagate drives instead. I'm only guessing here, but they may have had so many bad Maxtors that they got tired of replacing them over and over.
I wish "New Scientist" stories would have more science in them, this seems pretty sensationalist.
No, tree-hugging hippie freaks are complaining.
I had a similar experience at Best Buy. This was back in like 94 when single-spin CDRom drives were still fairly pricey. I bought one and didn't know the shrink-wrap job wasn't the same since it was the last one. When I got home, it had a floppy drive with newspaper packing. When I took it back they had to get the manager, they probably thought I was trying to pull something on them.
User--(120ms)-->Satellite Satellite--(120ms)-->ISP ISP--(??)-->Destination Destination--(??)-->ISP ISP--(120ms)-->Satellite Satellite--(120ms)-->User.
In any case, he was correct to point out that the parent was incorrect in saying that it had to be doubled again to 1000 ms.
I like Tepples's answer. Also they seem to have mentioned the terms of use of the Fed Ex website. Maybe since he ordered boxes through the website, they are saying he violated the terms of use since they weren't for shipping.
And if you're not an educational institution, you should be denied ".edu". But I think that one is still in force. So where should I put my personal website?
here is the 10 best list. What I can't understand is that each of the 10 best has a runner up. Wouldn't that just be "The 20 Best"?
I tried this and it didn't work. I know we had the connection info and everything ok because we were able to start MP and do it without bots. Plus it's only the small maps for 16 player. I did get MP to work with bots on ONE computer by running BF2.exe in dedicated server mode (not the normal dediated BF2_w32ded.exe). This web page got me started.
Zoom in all the way on the google moon map, then behold.
DELETE FROM [User] WHERE UserName LIKE 'Gu%en'
Even more likely...
I think the unique IDs are created when the object first enters the world as loot from a kill or chest, or from a vendor. When trading to another player, the item should keep the ID I believe. What caused the lag when looting corpses and the getting stuck in the crouching position shortly after launch was the large influx into the newbie areas and the strain on the ID creation from all the quick and easy kills.
What we need to do now is to get cars that can run on 80/20 and 70/30 blends and to get gas stations to provide the fuel. When pure gasoline costs $2.50 a gallon and you can buy 70/30 blended ethanol for $2.00 WITHOUT the subsidy, I think that'll wake a lot of people up.
From McDonald's own executives testimony, the jurors found they had a calous disregard for the safety of their customers. She was awarded $160,000 for compensatory damages, plus $2.7 million in punitive damages. That equated to two days worth of coffee sales at McDonald's at the time. Some jurors unsuccessfully argued for up to $9.6 million in damages. The judge lowered the punitive damages to $480,000 and they later settled for even less.
The punitive damages were awarded because McDonalds knew their coffee could cause horrible burns and did nothing about it except to say that contents were hot on the cup. Of course coffee would be hot, but few people took that to mean that they could cause third degree burns in as little as 3 seconds. After seeing the horrible pictures of the woman's burns, McDonalds had someone testify that since they sold so much coffee, the people that were burned were statistically insignificant. The jury realized that no matter how small the number, there was a person behind each one that had a horrible experience like this 80 year old woman.
But they won't look as good. If you want the keys to glow you would need some kind of backlight, which would use more power than OLED. The amount of power used by OLED is small enough that it's not a big deal. You can either use your 21" CRT for 5 minutes or power your OLED keyboard for 24 hours. The computer probably uses more power when turned off than would be used to light the keyboard.
"Space" is infinite, but the LaGrange points are not. The further from the center you are, the more you have to use your thrusters to keep from flying to remote parts of the solar system. It's like balancing a pencil on it's point. If the pencil gets to far to any side, it will go off in that direction.