Desktop drives were never meant to be used in notebooks (the name "laptops" shall no longer be used after that exploding Dell fiasco). They're too big, too heavy, and generate too much heat; hardly something you would want to carry around with you in your bag. I've also found that notebook drives have much better shock tolerances, so you won't ruin a drive as easily by dropping it or banging it against something as you would a desktop drive.
I agree with the others that notebook drives make a lot of sense in small, quiet form factors though. If you're looking for small and you don't care that much about space, a notebook drive can fit your needs quite well. Got an entertainment center PC to fit in your shelve to build? Use a notebook drive for temporary storage and off-load the heavy files to a file server via gigabit ethernet somewhere else in the house.
I personally carry a notebook drive in a usb enclosure that fits in my pocket, and it is one of the best purchases that I Have ever made in electronics. Never underestimate the convenience of having 60gB in your pocket to carry documents, music, and movies on. I was even running Unreal Tournament 2004 off of it - portable gaming on any capable computer!
Ah, yes, the Great Compromise that combined the New Jersey and the Virginia Plans. Although that can be interpreted as an application of Tyranny of the Majority, it is an application of checks and balances and not the actual topic to which I was referring. As quoting Wikipedia seems to be common among Slashdotters these days, I will post an article as a response.
Specifically, "Tyranny of the Majority" does not refer to the Great Compromise in particular, or any other state rights - it is the very essence that the majority can force the minority to do what they want against the desires of the minority. The Founding Fathers were afraid that the majority of the nation back then, being mostly illiterate farmers and countryfolk, could not be trusted with major political decisions, and impose a Tyranny of the Majority on the intellectual and aristocrats.
That is exactly why the House of Representatives is the only portion of the United States Government directly elected by the people. The President is elected by the electoral college, the senate is elected by the state legislatures, and the supreme court, of which we are having these major debates over Harriet Myers, is elected by the president and approved by the senate.
If I could find an exact quote of this nature for you, I would, but I have no time to go through the Federalist papers tonight. The rest I leave to your own research.
People who have studied the American Constitution and the ideas upon which it was founded would recognize this debate as "Tyranny of the Majority." In essence, the founding fathers knew that the vast majority of the population would not have the necessary knowledge and skill to successfully judge laws. That is why they purposely instituted a series of checks and balances within a representative democracy.
Direct democracy seems like a wonderful idea in theory, but as with communism, human nature interferes in its actual, practical, operation. There's no doubt in my mind that the current American system is in a state of downfall and decay, but after witnessing other instances of direct democracy, I think that I would still prefer our system.
You're right about Knoppix not needing an installation process, but in the case of naive Windows users, even asking them to reboot can be a scary concept for them.
The other case where I can see this being useful is when you're trying to demonstrate Knoppix to someone and they already have work running on their Windows desktop - spreadsheets, telnet sessions, and things of that nature. If they can see Linux running within a window, they'll be much more likely to play around with it since they know that they can just click a close box and return to their normal routine whenever they want.
It may not work for everyone, but for those people who this can influence, I see nothing wrong with extra shiny things to attract the naive.
This archive by itself would be a great museum based upon the things in it that the article mentioned. Of course, someone would have to organize the collection and hire staff to maintain the buildings, but it's a shame to see our history not being put to use. Some of the stories and innovations here could serve as inspiration to our kids and current researchers much the same way that the moon landing and Hubble telescope did for some of our generation. If they setup a building with the highlights and charged a modest price for admission, it would be far better than letting these memories go to waste.
sure why not? intel could be postponing on brining out their biggest guns for later on when it would be better to shoot them off, they might also want to see what the competition will do and bring out before they bring out their best, but on the same note, who knows what else Intel might be holding back? They might have some other amazing thing that they are waiting to spring on the public at an appropriate time...
Well, Intel has been showing off a couple of pretty neat technologies at the various trade shows around, and I'm definitely looking forward to desktop chips based upon the Pentium-M architecture.
You're right though - they've spent a lot of money stress testing this chipset for reliability and performance, and surely must know of its capabilities. If they can get people to buy this chipset now and buy it again in the future, then they will. They did the same thing with the Celerons and the high-yield P-IIs in the past, so why not now? Supply and demand equals more profits, right?
I'm actually pretty excited about DDR2, as our memory speeds and hard drive transfer speeds are two of the largest bottlenecks in our current systems. High-speed DDR2 (performance won't really increase that much at the moment since DDR2 has higher latency than DDR) paired with hypertransport will be wonderful to watch.
So what happens when some law enforcement organization such as the police or the passport office want to take your fingerprints? Do you deny their request and don't get anything done, or do you use glove prints rather than fingerprints. Even worse, what if someone hacks into the police database and creates fake gloves with other people's fingerprints etched in them?
As much as the privacy advocates will laugh at this news article, fingerprints have been a proven source of clues for law enforcement agencys for decades. Nowadays, we have more sophisticated methods of detecting whether someone might have been at the scene of a crime or not, but fingerprinting is nice, quick, easy, and obvious. Of course, every system in existence can be fooled, and if you're really willing to break the system, you can. However, I hate to think that people other than the tinfoil hat crowd would be so concerned about fingerprints that they would wear gloves all the time. This is much more a legislative issue than it is a technological issue. Unless we stop legislative processes invading our privacy, technological means will be only a band-aid onto the root of the problem.
Is it really necessary to run both? I've been fine with just Adaware for a while now.
It's not absolutely necessary to run both, just as it's not absolutely necessary to run a virus scanner if you're relatively sure that your firewall will stop most of the viruses going into your network.
However, having two separate programs with two separate databases increases the chance that one particular vermin might escape, since there are two levels of checks against it. What was the last program you used that did absolutely every single thing that you wanted it to do? For me, having two separate programs avoids vendor lock-in and encourages improvement. It's still not 100% secure - nothing is. However, it's a little bit more peace of mind when you go to clean your co-workers' computers off because Internet Explorer gave them more bugs than an open can of Mountain Dew in the summertime will attract.
Wow... I created a dating application as a joke for one of my girlfriends in the past, but this by all means exceeded my attempt. I'm currently in the process of sending this around to all of my female officemates, and I'm sure that they'll appreciate your efforts. A good woman will love you and appreciate you for who you are rather than what you need to change; they're hard to find, but if you have the patience to wait for one, you won't regret it.
P.S. Tell whoever created the OSU CCC website to avoid that splash screen or at least create a HTML link off of it. I'm not saying that ours at Virginia Tech is much better, but for those of us who deletes the flash plugin on sight, it'll make our web browsing lives a bit easier.
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For Bollow, the decision to build a framework that is compatible with.NET is based on market reality. "In the industry, companies are using Microsoft stuff. The only way we can make it possible at acceptable cost to migrate to GNU/Linux is by making it possible for them to run their essential apps on both systems," he said. "My goal is to prevent Microsoft from catching the world in their.NET."
I agree with Bollow's reasoning and reality, but I fear that his sentiments may fall far short of his dream. He'll have to cope with
Trying to implement a moving standard as Microsoft continues to update libraries and APIs
Dealing with any incompatibilities and bugs within Microsoft's.NET code
Potential legal threats from miscellaneous things which Microsoft may choose to patent
Acceptance from both Microsoft supporters and Linux supporters to convince both sides to use one common platform
With that said, I think it's a very good idea to try to slowly nudge Microsoft developers over to other platforms, particularly if we come out with more advanced and/or convenient features than Microsoft's own standards. Nevertheless, time will tell whether this project pans out or not.
Cooking is an area where it can be as complicated as you want it to be-ranging all the way from sticking a piece of meat into the fire to a masterful blend of 72 ingredients into a pot of French soup simmered for eight hours over charcoal. Most people do not do anything very complicated, but if you don't think that there isn't science in cooking, then all of our safety precautions, refrigeration technology, FDA guides, food pyramid, nutritional labels, calorie counts, and everything else really isn't necessary. The human diet is one of the most studied scientific areas in history; even more so if you take medicine and drugs into consideration.
Now, granted I don't bother to pay attention to most of the research being done nowadays because taste and effects are so individualized, but there certainly is science involved in the process of cooking beyond a simple receipe for something that tastes good.
The problems with digital information management have never come from the tools and software involved. Design flaws in the software can certainly make it easier to do stupid or ignorant things, but the real issue is that the vast majority of computer users view their computer as an appliance like a dishwasher or a laundry machine rather than the complicated, time-consuming device that it really is. As such, they will never take the time to proper train themselves on security and rights management.
In the corporate environment, this is not that large of an issue since the IT department normally takes care of training, containing, and issuing permissions. In the SOHO market though, this is a real issue, and this is one reason why these Microsoft worms have been spreading as fast as they could. I would love it if computer use was regulated the way a car was here in the U.S. You're allowed to do whatever you want with it when you're on the roads, but you have to be trained to use it before you can drive, and you have to be periodically inspected to make sure that you're not a danger to everyone else on the roads. It sounds like a big hassle, I know, but I really think that it's the only way to rid us of the ignorance clause, even if it involves nothing more than studying a pamphlet and answering 20 out of 25 multiple choice questions correctly.
I'm here at my last semester at Tech, and believe me, some of my CS friends would be happy just to get an A in a class, much less a G5!
Not a bad idea for the students, but if the university really gave every student that received a passing grade a machine valued at over a thousand dollars, you're going to hear other students complaining about it at the Collegiate Times, and there will be much more emphasis to take classes taught by the easier grading professors.
Don't get me started on the curator system either. I only had one semester dealing with it before I switched out of CpE, but I really long for the days of classroom teaching. Programming is best learned in front of a computer with someone guiding you along, not uploading files to a server and getting large amounts of response texts back.
As others have already suggested, a good lift won't require much strength to raise the car with...
Now, getting the lift out of the trunk and positioning it - that might be the problem for you.
There's no easy fix for getting stuck on the side of the road. One of my oldest friends replied to me on this very question: "Hello!!! I'm sure that some nice guy will stop and help!" In the old days, you could count on someone stopping by and lending you a hand, but in this age of rapists, drug addicts, and so forth, most people I know are wary of stopping to help someone. It's sad, but it's also very true.
I think your original comment gave the impression that you didn't know how to change your tire because you didn't want to, not because you didn't have the ability to - that's where all of these replies are coming from now. It's fine if you don't have the strength to do it, but knowing what to do in incidents is the key, and I'm sure that you know that as well. In the case of an emergency, a cell phone and a road-side assistance service such as AAA would be the best situation. Even if you don't have a cell phone plan, any old or discarded cell phone which has a signal can still call 911, which is a bit overkill, but if you're out in the middle of a snowstorm, it could possibly save you. Any extra option to have is a good thing!
LOTR is not set upon this earth. It is set in a world similar to ours in many ways. Nonetheless, the telltale absence of well... pretty much everything in LOTR except Humans would be an excelent indication that Tolkin intended his world to be seperate from ours in its history.
I recall hearing from a couple of sources that Tolkien actually did intend for Middle-Earth to be the same earth that we stand on right now. After all, he was trying to provide a mythology for the Britons, whom he felt did not have a grand mythology in the same way as the Norse or the Romans. The only source that I can find at the moment is from here, but it does contain the following:
When pressed for the location of Middle-earth (as fans and critics continually did), Tolkien often replied that Middle-earth most definitely refers to lands of this world.
I'm sure that I can dig up more sources from "Letters of J.R. Tolkien" or other books should you require more evidence.
You're right that there aren't any elves, Maiar, or Valar around nowadays, but remember that they all reside in Valinor now, beyond the reaches of men. Sauron was defeated, Saruman's spirit was blown away by the wind from the west, and who knows what happened to the Ents, Trolls, and Orcs. The Fourth Age was the Age of Man, and here we still live.
No, of course it's not real, but it's still a wonderful fantasy - far beyond anything the movies showed you. My fellow readers of The Simarillion and The Bible would understand what I'm talking about when I say how much Tolkien's work paralleled Biblical creation.
The physical configuration of today's laptops doesn't put the screen at the right height, or the keyboard in the right position. I deal with it, but since this is what I do all day long, I do start to worry about being hunched over in such a bad posture all the time.
I've actually brought a wireless USB keyboard/mouse combo just for this exact problem. Besides allowing me to type and point where I choose, it also makes a very handy remote for presentations/DVD showings. A4Tech sells a cheap non-optical combo for about $25 if you're interested. Optical mice, will of course, cost a bit more.
I just can't get where Christians got their "loving God" stuff from, but it's certainly not from the Old Testament. The Bible is a long compendium of slaughters, most of them being comitted ad majorem Dei gloriam. Ever read the Books of Kings?
I'm not trying to be a troll, but the loving aspect of God is stated quite clearly in Moses' Writings. Jesus himself quoted the Old Testament when he said what the two greatest commandments are. Many people also forget that besides being loving, God is also just, so if you go against him or his ways, you will be crushed - no exceptions.
There definitely have been a lot of slaughters in the Bible, but that is true of every civilization or belief. No matter how great the foundational beliefs are, someone always manages to turn it into their own excuse. If you really want examples of dumb acts in the name of Christianity, take a look at the Children's Crusade or the Spanish Inquisition - not bright points of our history at all.
You can believe what you want - that's perfectly fine. Just don't miss out on the whole picture because you're concentrating on one point.
I know that you meant that as a joke, but that's actually not a bad idea. For everyone who's complaining that the movies don't match the book, why don't we just create our own version? The Star Trek and Matrix parodies have proven that amateur work has risen to the level where very nice productions can be done with readily available hardware and software. The only issues standing in our way is leadership, talent, money... and of course, time. If the community wants to get together and every person contributes in whatever way he or she can, then I don't see these issues being a problem.
But, a router doesn't always have to drop packets. It could tag them with a special marker, and clients could then react accordingly, e.g. by dropping them in their TCP/IP stack.
Well, I see that the evil bit is alive and kicking still...
Not sure why anyone spends the $$ on a big screen CRT/FPTV/RPTV anymore. I've already converted two coworkers to projectors (an X1 & a Z1).
There are three primary reasons why people still purchase screens rather than projectors even with the cost differential:
Lighting: as you said, you must have adequate lighting control to be able to view the image
Noise: projectors generate much more noise than screens because they must dissipate the heat generated by the bulb using fans. Newer projectors have dynamic fan speed control, but it is still nevertheless an important issue if you dislike background noise.
Bulb replacement: The X1 is excellent at 3,000 hours, but over the lifetime of the product, those bulbs can add up at a couple of hundred dollars a piece.
I've had the X1 in my sights for quite some time now as well, but screens do have their advantages.
Ah, but who's the one who contributes the most to their pocketbooks? Us, or the corporations?
Let's face it: when capitalism spreads to our government - the very people who are suppose to regulate and maintain the competitive atmosphere - we're in trouble. We should have never had full-time politicans or massive campaign contributions to begin with, and now we're seeing greed and selfishness carry themselves to their natural end.
Keep up the fight for our civil rights and make your voices known, guys. Remember - freedom demands eternal vilgilance.
The point? The actions of the few directly affected everyone else. This is something we unfortunately have to live with both in computing (with product activation, DRM and the like) and in our general lives (laws, regulations and the like).
It is a sad fact of life.
Very true, but in this case, free pool games is something that you shouldn't have been able to do in the first place, so it's justified. I do know what you're saying though; it's one of the things that we Americans are finding out more and more as information becomes easier to obtain.
I like paying people for products and services - that's right by every principle. What frustrates me is when you spend $100-5000 on a piece of software only to find out that you can't reinstall it after a crash because of product activation, meanwhile, the pirates are happily chirping along because since their version is hacked to remove activation, they never have to worry about crashes or reinstalls or hardware upgrades. When legimate users are inconvenienced but illegal users can go about their lives without a hitch, then what is the purpose of product activation and control in the first place?
The thing is that it only takes one person to buy a CD, encode it to MP3, and share it with the world. Why should the rest of us have to be penalized and inconvenienced for one person?
That's the thing that always really frustrated me with the product activation schemes for software: the people who pirated it just hacked it and went about their merry way. Meanwhile, the rest of us have to struggle with calling Microsoft or some other company just to explain that we installed some new hardware or that we're reinstalling Windows.
If they really trusted us, they would put the money, time, and other resources into fixing bugs or developing new features rather than coming up with new ways of preventing us from backing up our work... because you know that everything that they come up with is really going to stop the large-scale pirates.
No, no, no... the EPS conduits are designed to carry plasma from the warp core to the warp nacelles. They're not verified for antimatter containment by any means, especially since you have to go through a level 1 tap in order to redirect anything to the main deflector dish!
... unless, of course, you're talking about an episode of Voyager or Enterprise, in which case anything is possible. If Brannon Braga is writing the episode, you might even have the ship explode several times with a large reset button at the end of the episode.
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Desktop drives were never meant to be used in notebooks (the name "laptops" shall no longer be used after that exploding Dell fiasco). They're too big, too heavy, and generate too much heat; hardly something you would want to carry around with you in your bag. I've also found that notebook drives have much better shock tolerances, so you won't ruin a drive as easily by dropping it or banging it against something as you would a desktop drive.
I agree with the others that notebook drives make a lot of sense in small, quiet form factors though. If you're looking for small and you don't care that much about space, a notebook drive can fit your needs quite well. Got an entertainment center PC to fit in your shelve to build? Use a notebook drive for temporary storage and off-load the heavy files to a file server via gigabit ethernet somewhere else in the house.
I personally carry a notebook drive in a usb enclosure that fits in my pocket, and it is one of the best purchases that I Have ever made in electronics. Never underestimate the convenience of having 60gB in your pocket to carry documents, music, and movies on. I was even running Unreal Tournament 2004 off of it - portable gaming on any capable computer!
Ah, yes, the Great Compromise that combined the New Jersey and the Virginia Plans. Although that can be interpreted as an application of Tyranny of the Majority, it is an application of checks and balances and not the actual topic to which I was referring. As quoting Wikipedia seems to be common among Slashdotters these days, I will post an article as a response.
Specifically, "Tyranny of the Majority" does not refer to the Great Compromise in particular, or any other state rights - it is the very essence that the majority can force the minority to do what they want against the desires of the minority. The Founding Fathers were afraid that the majority of the nation back then, being mostly illiterate farmers and countryfolk, could not be trusted with major political decisions, and impose a Tyranny of the Majority on the intellectual and aristocrats.
That is exactly why the House of Representatives is the only portion of the United States Government directly elected by the people. The President is elected by the electoral college, the senate is elected by the state legislatures, and the supreme court, of which we are having these major debates over Harriet Myers, is elected by the president and approved by the senate.
If I could find an exact quote of this nature for you, I would, but I have no time to go through the Federalist papers tonight. The rest I leave to your own research.
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People who have studied the American Constitution and the ideas upon which it was founded would recognize this debate as "Tyranny of the Majority." In essence, the founding fathers knew that the vast majority of the population would not have the necessary knowledge and skill to successfully judge laws. That is why they purposely instituted a series of checks and balances within a representative democracy.
Direct democracy seems like a wonderful idea in theory, but as with communism, human nature interferes in its actual, practical, operation. There's no doubt in my mind that the current American system is in a state of downfall and decay, but after witnessing other instances of direct democracy, I think that I would still prefer our system.
You're right about Knoppix not needing an installation process, but in the case of naive Windows users, even asking them to reboot can be a scary concept for them.
The other case where I can see this being useful is when you're trying to demonstrate Knoppix to someone and they already have work running on their Windows desktop - spreadsheets, telnet sessions, and things of that nature. If they can see Linux running within a window, they'll be much more likely to play around with it since they know that they can just click a close box and return to their normal routine whenever they want.
It may not work for everyone, but for those people who this can influence, I see nothing wrong with extra shiny things to attract the naive.
This archive by itself would be a great museum based upon the things in it that the article mentioned. Of course, someone would have to organize the collection and hire staff to maintain the buildings, but it's a shame to see our history not being put to use. Some of the stories and innovations here could serve as inspiration to our kids and current researchers much the same way that the moon landing and Hubble telescope did for some of our generation. If they setup a building with the highlights and charged a modest price for admission, it would be far better than letting these memories go to waste.
Well, Intel has been showing off a couple of pretty neat technologies at the various trade shows around, and I'm definitely looking forward to desktop chips based upon the Pentium-M architecture.
You're right though - they've spent a lot of money stress testing this chipset for reliability and performance, and surely must know of its capabilities. If they can get people to buy this chipset now and buy it again in the future, then they will. They did the same thing with the Celerons and the high-yield P-IIs in the past, so why not now? Supply and demand equals more profits, right?
I'm actually pretty excited about DDR2, as our memory speeds and hard drive transfer speeds are two of the largest bottlenecks in our current systems. High-speed DDR2 (performance won't really increase that much at the moment since DDR2 has higher latency than DDR) paired with hypertransport will be wonderful to watch.
So what happens when some law enforcement organization such as the police or the passport office want to take your fingerprints? Do you deny their request and don't get anything done, or do you use glove prints rather than fingerprints. Even worse, what if someone hacks into the police database and creates fake gloves with other people's fingerprints etched in them?
As much as the privacy advocates will laugh at this news article, fingerprints have been a proven source of clues for law enforcement agencys for decades. Nowadays, we have more sophisticated methods of detecting whether someone might have been at the scene of a crime or not, but fingerprinting is nice, quick, easy, and obvious. Of course, every system in existence can be fooled, and if you're really willing to break the system, you can. However, I hate to think that people other than the tinfoil hat crowd would be so concerned about fingerprints that they would wear gloves all the time. This is much more a legislative issue than it is a technological issue. Unless we stop legislative processes invading our privacy, technological means will be only a band-aid onto the root of the problem.
It's not absolutely necessary to run both, just as it's not absolutely necessary to run a virus scanner if you're relatively sure that your firewall will stop most of the viruses going into your network.
However, having two separate programs with two separate databases increases the chance that one particular vermin might escape, since there are two levels of checks against it. What was the last program you used that did absolutely every single thing that you wanted it to do? For me, having two separate programs avoids vendor lock-in and encourages improvement. It's still not 100% secure - nothing is. However, it's a little bit more peace of mind when you go to clean your co-workers' computers off because Internet Explorer gave them more bugs than an open can of Mountain Dew in the summertime will attract.
Wow... I created a dating application as a joke for one of my girlfriends in the past, but this by all means exceeded my attempt. I'm currently in the process of sending this around to all of my female officemates, and I'm sure that they'll appreciate your efforts. A good woman will love you and appreciate you for who you are rather than what you need to change; they're hard to find, but if you have the patience to wait for one, you won't regret it.
P.S. Tell whoever created the OSU CCC website to avoid that splash screen or at least create a HTML link off of it. I'm not saying that ours at Virginia Tech is much better, but for those of us who deletes the flash plugin on sight, it'll make our web browsing lives a bit easier.
I agree with Bollow's reasoning and reality, but I fear that his sentiments may fall far short of his dream. He'll have to cope with
With that said, I think it's a very good idea to try to slowly nudge Microsoft developers over to other platforms, particularly if we come out with more advanced and/or convenient features than Microsoft's own standards. Nevertheless, time will tell whether this project pans out or not.
Shouldn't be complicated?
Cooking is an area where it can be as complicated as you want it to be-ranging all the way from sticking a piece of meat into the fire to a masterful blend of 72 ingredients into a pot of French soup simmered for eight hours over charcoal. Most people do not do anything very complicated, but if you don't think that there isn't science in cooking, then all of our safety precautions, refrigeration technology, FDA guides, food pyramid, nutritional labels, calorie counts, and everything else really isn't necessary. The human diet is one of the most studied scientific areas in history; even more so if you take medicine and drugs into consideration.
Now, granted I don't bother to pay attention to most of the research being done nowadays because taste and effects are so individualized, but there certainly is science involved in the process of cooking beyond a simple receipe for something that tastes good.
The problems with digital information management have never come from the tools and software involved. Design flaws in the software can certainly make it easier to do stupid or ignorant things, but the real issue is that the vast majority of computer users view their computer as an appliance like a dishwasher or a laundry machine rather than the complicated, time-consuming device that it really is. As such, they will never take the time to proper train themselves on security and rights management.
In the corporate environment, this is not that large of an issue since the IT department normally takes care of training, containing, and issuing permissions. In the SOHO market though, this is a real issue, and this is one reason why these Microsoft worms have been spreading as fast as they could. I would love it if computer use was regulated the way a car was here in the U.S. You're allowed to do whatever you want with it when you're on the roads, but you have to be trained to use it before you can drive, and you have to be periodically inspected to make sure that you're not a danger to everyone else on the roads. It sounds like a big hassle, I know, but I really think that it's the only way to rid us of the ignorance clause, even if it involves nothing more than studying a pamphlet and answering 20 out of 25 multiple choice questions correctly.
I'm here at my last semester at Tech, and believe me, some of my CS friends would be happy just to get an A in a class, much less a G5!
Not a bad idea for the students, but if the university really gave every student that received a passing grade a machine valued at over a thousand dollars, you're going to hear other students complaining about it at the Collegiate Times, and there will be much more emphasis to take classes taught by the easier grading professors.
Don't get me started on the curator system either. I only had one semester dealing with it before I switched out of CpE, but I really long for the days of classroom teaching. Programming is best learned in front of a computer with someone guiding you along, not uploading files to a server and getting large amounts of response texts back.
As others have already suggested, a good lift won't require much strength to raise the car with... Now, getting the lift out of the trunk and positioning it - that might be the problem for you.
There's no easy fix for getting stuck on the side of the road. One of my oldest friends replied to me on this very question: "Hello!!! I'm sure that some nice guy will stop and help!" In the old days, you could count on someone stopping by and lending you a hand, but in this age of rapists, drug addicts, and so forth, most people I know are wary of stopping to help someone. It's sad, but it's also very true.
I think your original comment gave the impression that you didn't know how to change your tire because you didn't want to, not because you didn't have the ability to - that's where all of these replies are coming from now. It's fine if you don't have the strength to do it, but knowing what to do in incidents is the key, and I'm sure that you know that as well. In the case of an emergency, a cell phone and a road-side assistance service such as AAA would be the best situation. Even if you don't have a cell phone plan, any old or discarded cell phone which has a signal can still call 911, which is a bit overkill, but if you're out in the middle of a snowstorm, it could possibly save you. Any extra option to have is a good thing!
I recall hearing from a couple of sources that Tolkien actually did intend for Middle-Earth to be the same earth that we stand on right now. After all, he was trying to provide a mythology for the Britons, whom he felt did not have a grand mythology in the same way as the Norse or the Romans. The only source that I can find at the moment is from here, but it does contain the following:
I'm sure that I can dig up more sources from "Letters of J.R. Tolkien" or other books should you require more evidence.
You're right that there aren't any elves, Maiar, or Valar around nowadays, but remember that they all reside in Valinor now, beyond the reaches of men. Sauron was defeated, Saruman's spirit was blown away by the wind from the west, and who knows what happened to the Ents, Trolls, and Orcs. The Fourth Age was the Age of Man, and here we still live.
No, of course it's not real, but it's still a wonderful fantasy - far beyond anything the movies showed you. My fellow readers of The Simarillion and The Bible would understand what I'm talking about when I say how much Tolkien's work paralleled Biblical creation.
I've actually brought a wireless USB keyboard/mouse combo just for this exact problem. Besides allowing me to type and point where I choose, it also makes a very handy remote for presentations/DVD showings. A4Tech sells a cheap non-optical combo for about $25 if you're interested. Optical mice, will of course, cost a bit more.
I'm not trying to be a troll, but the loving aspect of God is stated quite clearly in Moses' Writings. Jesus himself quoted the Old Testament when he said what the two greatest commandments are. Many people also forget that besides being loving, God is also just, so if you go against him or his ways, you will be crushed - no exceptions.
There definitely have been a lot of slaughters in the Bible, but that is true of every civilization or belief. No matter how great the foundational beliefs are, someone always manages to turn it into their own excuse. If you really want examples of dumb acts in the name of Christianity, take a look at the Children's Crusade or the Spanish Inquisition - not bright points of our history at all.
You can believe what you want - that's perfectly fine. Just don't miss out on the whole picture because you're concentrating on one point.
I know that you meant that as a joke, but that's actually not a bad idea. For everyone who's complaining that the movies don't match the book, why don't we just create our own version? The Star Trek and Matrix parodies have proven that amateur work has risen to the level where very nice productions can be done with readily available hardware and software. The only issues standing in our way is leadership, talent, money... and of course, time. If the community wants to get together and every person contributes in whatever way he or she can, then I don't see these issues being a problem.
Open source movie? It's just a matter of time...
Well, I see that the evil bit is alive and kicking still...
There are three primary reasons why people still purchase screens rather than projectors even with the cost differential:
I've had the X1 in my sights for quite some time now as well, but screens do have their advantages.
Ah, but who's the one who contributes the most to their pocketbooks? Us, or the corporations?
Let's face it: when capitalism spreads to our government - the very people who are suppose to regulate and maintain the competitive atmosphere - we're in trouble. We should have never had full-time politicans or massive campaign contributions to begin with, and now we're seeing greed and selfishness carry themselves to their natural end.
Keep up the fight for our civil rights and make your voices known, guys. Remember - freedom demands eternal vilgilance.
Very true, but in this case, free pool games is something that you shouldn't have been able to do in the first place, so it's justified. I do know what you're saying though; it's one of the things that we Americans are finding out more and more as information becomes easier to obtain.
I like paying people for products and services - that's right by every principle. What frustrates me is when you spend $100-5000 on a piece of software only to find out that you can't reinstall it after a crash because of product activation, meanwhile, the pirates are happily chirping along because since their version is hacked to remove activation, they never have to worry about crashes or reinstalls or hardware upgrades. When legimate users are inconvenienced but illegal users can go about their lives without a hitch, then what is the purpose of product activation and control in the first place?
Is that anything like the Old Testament law where prophets should be stoned if their prophecies were proven to be false?
Neat!
[begins polishing rocks]
The thing is that it only takes one person to buy a CD, encode it to MP3, and share it with the world. Why should the rest of us have to be penalized and inconvenienced for one person?
That's the thing that always really frustrated me with the product activation schemes for software: the people who pirated it just hacked it and went about their merry way. Meanwhile, the rest of us have to struggle with calling Microsoft or some other company just to explain that we installed some new hardware or that we're reinstalling Windows.
If they really trusted us, they would put the money, time, and other resources into fixing bugs or developing new features rather than coming up with new ways of preventing us from backing up our work... because you know that everything that they come up with is really going to stop the large-scale pirates.
No, no, no... the EPS conduits are designed to carry plasma from the warp core to the warp nacelles. They're not verified for antimatter containment by any means, especially since you have to go through a level 1 tap in order to redirect anything to the main deflector dish!
In the 24th century, computers debug you...