I though that this system often worked on a "People who bought this item also bought item X Y Z" principle. That being so, maybe a lot of people who bought those particular movies also bought a lot of black-topic films?
Look for the woman infected with an alien micro-organism that gives her the powerful urge to mate quickly in order to produce her world-dominating alien-human crossbid progeny. Of course, she'll probably kill you afterwards, but it's all the change some of you will get before you die anyhow!
Many comparisons will likely be made of NTP and Burst.com, but Burst.com actually has useful technology, has owned the patents for over a decade, and most importantly, actually had highly regarded products that made use of the patents.
Not reading the article is bad enough, the headline... though?
I think that a company logo is more important than a product logo, but either does offer a form of recognition. Taking a quick browse through the local game shop, several of the games have rather decorative boxes, and related products don't always have similar boxings. Notice - say - the halflife logo on a new box might catch my attention a little faster were the sequel to come out, but then overally I'd probably end up noticing/buying it anyhow, but earlier sales are usually the higher priced.
And some thing just create their own lines. ID's logo was at one time imfamous for some damn fun games, and having a game created with the HL2 engine (and having HL branding) would at least to me indicate that it had a few good things going for it (physics and graphics-wise)... whether it filled in the rest would be for me to decide based on reading the box and perhaps checking up on it online etc.
Semis have a regular purpose that cannot so easily be fulfilled by an ordinary vehicle. In addition, Joe just-drank-a-sixpack cannot just jump in a semi and fly onto the highway, but rather requires a special license and training to operate such a vehicle.
Far different from those that buy SUV's to "look cool" or just be the bigger car in a tussle.
How unsafe does a car have to be before it is outright banned, then? Kinda hypocritical to enforce seatbelt laws yet not ban the sale of completely unsafe vehicles.
From what I've been able to tell, the actual insurance cost is based on a fluxuating scale that some somewhat heavily factors on the overall crash cost of the vehicle. This include of course the cost of replacing/fixing the vehicle itself, crash likelyhood in the district the vehicle is insured, and also the likelyhood of the vehicle to be involved in a crash vs other vehicles, as well as likelyhood of vehicle break-in/theft etc. Insurance companies aren't out there to lose money, my guess if that vehicle-X is costing them more in insurance liability claims from victims, then they are likely upping the rates based on that. Around here it seems they factor in everything.
The problem is, when somebody is paying for a vehicle that costs 2-4x as much in gas, and possibly 2x+ overall, are they really going to worry much about paying more for insurance?
While having actual guitar riffs sounds cool, but as cool as a blaring guitar might sound anything that's not melodic will soon begin to sound very annoying after a few hundred repetitions.
I've gone through a lot of sound schemes, and while the initial concept is cool most of them get really redundant and annoying after awhile. Also, one of the nicest things about KDE is the ability to set the 'theme sounds volume' accordingly, so that at normal they're a dull whisper, and when I turn up to hear my quiet DVD or VOIP conversation my speakers don't blow up at the next exclamation error sound... (hopefully this might be a Vista feature, as well?). Maybe a few nice strums of the guitar for starting or stopping windows will help, but an all-out guitarfest might be a bit overboard.
Then again, some of the music such as the background during the windows install I found very well indeed... it's just the effects that were a bit annoying.
As mentioned in similar threads once long ago, the problem with that is circuit seperation and issues with a particular device bringing down many. Let's say your PC backcharges, and thus brings down or fries you other devices. Or perhaps the inverter itself bites it... I've had a whole PC worth of components bite the dust (drives, motherboard, etc) when a PSU decided to kick the dust bigtime... imagine that on a larger scale. In fact, that PSU ate it when another device was unplugged from the same bar, somehow backcharging through the supposedly protected power bar. Supposedly protected from the wall's end, anyhow.
Well, the site is running about as fast as a two-legged dog, so all I'm getting is a verrrrry slow loading flashvertisement. Does anyone know if the drive comes with an LED behind the window. As LED's inside the case would likely reflect off the clear cover (and no LED's in the case = too dark to see), the best visibility would be gained by a LED behind the window. Perhaps they could make it an "activity LED," so that it would change colours or flash brightly when the drive is accessing. At $350 already (which seems a bit steep to me, but then I haven't bought have any 10000RPM SATA drives to compare to) they could probably tack on a few extra bucks just by putting some little LED's in there to add to the "oooooo look at me" factor
Well I didn't mean to suggest that you should act positive to break the loop, just more than you should do something nice specifically for yourself. Sometimes simply putting myself into an overall positive situation adds enough sunshine to an otherwise dark moment to allow me to lift myself above the gloom of depression.
My grandfather (who recently passed away) suffered from strong bouts of depression. my father also seems to be a victim. As for myself, sometimes it seems that two many things going wrong can lead to a black hole that is rather difficult to crawl out of. I'm not big on pills in any form, neither the depression medication nor vitamins, etc, because I see it as cuaing possible side effects against my natural body chemistry. That being said, however, I generally beat any depression issues I have by following some various rules
a) You don't need to just know 'why' depression strikes. Sometimes there's not a reason, and sometimes there are damn good reasons to be depressed, upset, or sad. Part of what you need to look at is how long it's been happening, and then it happens.
Many people have already mentioned SAD, which ties depression to the time of year and possibly lack of solar-supplied vitamins, etc. Personally, my life is 'on hold' for various reasons at the moment... which basically means that it's not going anywhere. Any overly large amount of free time allows me to dwell on this too much. To be honest I do think on such things at times when I am busy , but not nearly so much.
It's been my experience with my grandfather that he was generally depressed when he was indoors. When he was out hiking, skiing, or travelling he was generally quite a happy person.
For myself, I'm generally at least content when visiting with friends, tinkering with something electronic, or perhaps playing a new video game of sort. I tend to get down the most when I'm running a bit low on sleep, haven't been eating as well as I should, or overworking myself, skipping lunches etc.
b) Depression isn't just about chemical unbalance, it's about the physical environment around us that creates that imbalance. This ties into (a) of course, but it goes a bit further. Your body is in many ways a complex and misunderstood machine. If you don't grease all the gears right it might not run properly, and the grease required for various people differs.
If you're doing any of the things mentioned at the end of (a) - such as overwork, undersleep, or over/undereating, consider doing something about that first. I've found that by getting outdoors more and doing about 20 minutes a day more exercise (free weights, etc) I've managed to improve how my body works. Improving that seems to have done something that adds a little to the happiness meter.
c) Got something on your mind, talk about it! Bottling is rarely a good thing. Everyone has problems, and while you might not feel comfortable talking to a doctor or shrink, you can always brace the topic in different ways. Some of the most interesting and/or information conversatons I've had have been basically bitching about what bothers me over a few drinks, or listening to what ails my friends.
Again, this is all personal opinion, but pills shouldn't be an initial solution. Try a few changes in lifestyle, treat yourself every now and then (whether it be a cheap electronic toy or a chocolate bar). Sneak something into the budget for yourself once every 1-2 months/paycheques. Overall, try to find the times when you are most depressed, and most happy, and find the common denominator between them.
Another nice free one is IZarc which can handle some of the non-windows format (tar, gzip, etc) in addition to most of the windows ones (zip, ace, rar, etc)
Acts like Hitler with his absolutism and vyings for complete control... thinks like a baboon with his lack of understanding and unintelligent arguements/commentary.
As mentioned above, it's not a review. However, nobody seems to have mentioned that it only seems to cover ATI cards. It's nice to see the improvement of the various cards as far as speed/texturing engine/etc, but it doesn't show an cards from NVidia or others (which given the years of some of these ATI cards, there were other good manufacturers beside ATI/NV).
Still, interesting but not really useful for deciding what card to go for next, unless you're trying to see if a new ATI is better than your old in terms of speed (stability not mentioned).
Do we have somewhere that can serve as a holding area for such things? I know the EFF fights for rights overall, but how if they or somebody else sets up a legit and offical area for moneys to be collected. If a case goes through it gets donated, if it doesn't then perhaps a vote can be given for a secondary case to donate to?
In reality, aside from the technological issues, the case isn't that complex. The problem is that while you might be able to handle a simple case either, the penalties allowed by the legal system for small/simple things are so exorbitant that the potential cost of losing tends to outweight the cost of getting a professional - though even then there is no guarantee you will win.
If she wins, and the attorney was quoted as saying "she doesn't need a lawyer to win this case," it's not exactly good for future business in similar cases as more people will think that they can do without.
I think that the best "special day" I've had was "casual friday" at the marketing/sales department of a previous employer. Nothing specifically that you had to wear, just leave the suit and tie at home. It was particularly nice since friday being the lead-up day to a weekend after work, one could dress prepared for the night ahead.
As to the subject of my post though, one of the nicer ways to improve employee moral is to have a budget available for it. As spontaneous needs comes up, use it. Somebody work through lunch, take him out for lunch the next. Is one of your accounting department members feeling a bit chilly, get her a porcelain heater.
Little things with custom touches are the best way to show that you care, and the best custom touches are often the ones that show you are 'in touch' with your employees
Where I work, new members are automatically joined into the "social club." The idea is that the social club plans events for those in our board office (where my desk is situated) in an effort to, ya know, bring everyone together and have fun...
Instead it was a royal pain in the ass. Try adjusting to a move, a new job, and trying to handle social events. In addition, while my desk was at the board office 90% of the time I am on-site elsewhere.
Another bright idea pushed on employees down the drain. I think I made all of 2 social club meetings and after missing about a half-dozen or more they finally gave up with last-minute emails trying to get me to attend.
What was before the big bang. How about before that. And before that?
Basically they're saying that there are some things that are beyond/too-big-for human understanding. Certainly most people I know tend to get headaches thinking deep into the concept above, and the concept of ultimate original and infinity tend to how we define our lives and the passing thereof.
Personally I think you're free to think as you wish, so long as it doesn't involve blowing somebody else up to be with 15 virgins or whatever in the afterlife, but given that the scope of human intelligence and unstanding probably has limits it's not really fair to get angry with somebody for expressing that an answer is beyond theirs in understanding.
At least around when I was looking at the FX 5xxx series there were cards that supported TV-in from NVidia. Look for the "Personal Cinema" line as they would have the functionality you mention
Realistically though, the reason I didn't go with the "personal cinema" line is that for the price given you might as well spend the extra couple bucks and get a seperate TV-in card. That way when you upgrade you're extra-cost TV features out the door.
Still, if you're still interested the 5000 line had one such as this and I'd imagine the newer lines do as well.
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I though that this system often worked on a "People who bought this item also bought item X Y Z" principle. That being so, maybe a lot of people who bought those particular movies also bought a lot of black-topic films?
Look for the woman infected with an alien micro-organism that gives her the powerful urge to mate quickly in order to produce her world-dominating alien-human crossbid progeny. Of course, she'll probably kill you afterwards, but it's all the change some of you will get before you die anyhow!
Many comparisons will likely be made of NTP and Burst.com, but Burst.com actually has useful technology, has owned the patents for over a decade, and most importantly, actually had highly regarded products that made use of the patents.
Not reading the article is bad enough, the headline... though?
I think that a company logo is more important than a product logo, but either does offer a form of recognition. Taking a quick browse through the local game shop, several of the games have rather decorative boxes, and related products don't always have similar boxings. Notice - say - the halflife logo on a new box might catch my attention a little faster were the sequel to come out, but then overally I'd probably end up noticing/buying it anyhow, but earlier sales are usually the higher priced.
And some thing just create their own lines. ID's logo was at one time imfamous for some damn fun games, and having a game created with the HL2 engine (and having HL branding) would at least to me indicate that it had a few good things going for it (physics and graphics-wise)... whether it filled in the rest would be for me to decide based on reading the box and perhaps checking up on it online etc.
Semis have a regular purpose that cannot so easily be fulfilled by an ordinary vehicle. In addition, Joe just-drank-a-sixpack cannot just jump in a semi and fly onto the highway, but rather requires a special license and training to operate such a vehicle.
Far different from those that buy SUV's to "look cool" or just be the bigger car in a tussle.
How unsafe does a car have to be before it is outright banned, then? Kinda hypocritical to enforce seatbelt laws yet not ban the sale of completely unsafe vehicles.
From what I've been able to tell, the actual insurance cost is based on a fluxuating scale that some somewhat heavily factors on the overall crash cost of the vehicle. This include of course the cost of replacing/fixing the vehicle itself, crash likelyhood in the district the vehicle is insured, and also the likelyhood of the vehicle to be involved in a crash vs other vehicles, as well as likelyhood of vehicle break-in/theft etc. Insurance companies aren't out there to lose money, my guess if that vehicle-X is costing them more in insurance liability claims from victims, then they are likely upping the rates based on that. Around here it seems they factor in everything.
The problem is, when somebody is paying for a vehicle that costs 2-4x as much in gas, and possibly 2x+ overall, are they really going to worry much about paying more for insurance?
While having actual guitar riffs sounds cool, but as cool as a blaring guitar might sound anything that's not melodic will soon begin to sound very annoying after a few hundred repetitions.
I've gone through a lot of sound schemes, and while the initial concept is cool most of them get really redundant and annoying after awhile. Also, one of the nicest things about KDE is the ability to set the 'theme sounds volume' accordingly, so that at normal they're a dull whisper, and when I turn up to hear my quiet DVD or VOIP conversation my speakers don't blow up at the next exclamation error sound... (hopefully this might be a Vista feature, as well?). Maybe a few nice strums of the guitar for starting or stopping windows will help, but an all-out guitarfest might be a bit overboard.
Then again, some of the music such as the background during the windows install I found very well indeed... it's just the effects that were a bit annoying.
As mentioned in similar threads once long ago, the problem with that is circuit seperation and issues with a particular device bringing down many. Let's say your PC backcharges, and thus brings down or fries you other devices. Or perhaps the inverter itself bites it... I've had a whole PC worth of components bite the dust (drives, motherboard, etc) when a PSU decided to kick the dust bigtime... imagine that on a larger scale. In fact, that PSU ate it when another device was unplugged from the same bar, somehow backcharging through the supposedly protected power bar. Supposedly protected from the wall's end, anyhow.
Well, the site is running about as fast as a two-legged dog, so all I'm getting is a verrrrry slow loading flashvertisement. Does anyone know if the drive comes with an LED behind the window. As LED's inside the case would likely reflect off the clear cover (and no LED's in the case = too dark to see), the best visibility would be gained by a LED behind the window. Perhaps they could make it an "activity LED," so that it would change colours or flash brightly when the drive is accessing. At $350 already (which seems a bit steep to me, but then I haven't bought have any 10000RPM SATA drives to compare to) they could probably tack on a few extra bucks just by putting some little LED's in there to add to the "oooooo look at me" factor
I think it should be "lawsuits ahead"
Well I didn't mean to suggest that you should act positive to break the loop, just more than you should do something nice specifically for yourself. Sometimes simply putting myself into an overall positive situation adds enough sunshine to an otherwise dark moment to allow me to lift myself above the gloom of depression.
1000 Yen = 8.49USD, about 7.18 Euros or 9.89CAD (Canadian $)
My grandfather (who recently passed away) suffered from strong bouts of depression. my father also seems to be a victim. As for myself, sometimes it seems that two many things going wrong can lead to a black hole that is rather difficult to crawl out of. I'm not big on pills in any form, neither the depression medication nor vitamins, etc, because I see it as cuaing possible side effects against my natural body chemistry. That being said, however, I generally beat any depression issues I have by following some various rules
a) You don't need to just know 'why' depression strikes. Sometimes there's not a reason, and sometimes there are damn good reasons to be depressed, upset, or sad. Part of what you need to look at is how long it's been happening, and then it happens.
Many people have already mentioned SAD, which ties depression to the time of year and possibly lack of solar-supplied vitamins, etc. Personally, my life is 'on hold' for various reasons at the moment... which basically means that it's not going anywhere. Any overly large amount of free time allows me to dwell on this too much. To be honest I do think on such things at times when I am busy , but not nearly so much.
It's been my experience with my grandfather that he was generally depressed when he was indoors. When he was out hiking, skiing, or travelling he was generally quite a happy person.
For myself, I'm generally at least content when visiting with friends, tinkering with something electronic, or perhaps playing a new video game of sort. I tend to get down the most when I'm running a bit low on sleep, haven't been eating as well as I should, or overworking myself, skipping lunches etc.
b) Depression isn't just about chemical unbalance, it's about the physical environment around us that creates that imbalance. This ties into (a) of course, but it goes a bit further. Your body is in many ways a complex and misunderstood machine. If you don't grease all the gears right it might not run properly, and the grease required for various people differs.
If you're doing any of the things mentioned at the end of (a) - such as overwork, undersleep, or over/undereating, consider doing something about that first. I've found that by getting outdoors more and doing about 20 minutes a day more exercise (free weights, etc) I've managed to improve how my body works. Improving that seems to have done something that adds a little to the happiness meter.
c) Got something on your mind, talk about it! Bottling is rarely a good thing. Everyone has problems, and while you might not feel comfortable talking to a doctor or shrink, you can always brace the topic in different ways. Some of the most interesting and/or information conversatons I've had have been basically bitching about what bothers me over a few drinks, or listening to what ails my friends.
Again, this is all personal opinion, but pills shouldn't be an initial solution. Try a few changes in lifestyle, treat yourself every now and then (whether it be a cheap electronic toy or a chocolate bar). Sneak something into the budget for yourself once every 1-2 months/paycheques. Overall, try to find the times when you are most depressed, and most happy, and find the common denominator between them.
Another nice free one is IZarc which can handle some of the non-windows format (tar, gzip, etc) in addition to most of the windows ones (zip, ace, rar, etc)
Acts like Hitler with his absolutism and vyings for complete control... thinks like a baboon with his lack of understanding and unintelligent arguements/commentary.
Replying to myself, I didn't notice the "NVidia" link hidden at the bottom (I looked, I swear!), which leads to XGI, etc.
As mentioned above, it's not a review. However, nobody seems to have mentioned that it only seems to cover ATI cards. It's nice to see the improvement of the various cards as far as speed/texturing engine/etc, but it doesn't show an cards from NVidia or others (which given the years of some of these ATI cards, there were other good manufacturers beside ATI/NV).
Still, interesting but not really useful for deciding what card to go for next, unless you're trying to see if a new ATI is better than your old in terms of speed (stability not mentioned).
Do we have somewhere that can serve as a holding area for such things? I know the EFF fights for rights overall, but how if they or somebody else sets up a legit and offical area for moneys to be collected. If a case goes through it gets donated, if it doesn't then perhaps a vote can be given for a secondary case to donate to?
In reality, aside from the technological issues, the case isn't that complex. The problem is that while you might be able to handle a simple case either, the penalties allowed by the legal system for small/simple things are so exorbitant that the potential cost of losing tends to outweight the cost of getting a professional - though even then there is no guarantee you will win.
If she wins, and the attorney was quoted as saying "she doesn't need a lawyer to win this case," it's not exactly good for future business in similar cases as more people will think that they can do without.
I think that the best "special day" I've had was "casual friday" at the marketing/sales department of a previous employer. Nothing specifically that you had to wear, just leave the suit and tie at home. It was particularly nice since friday being the lead-up day to a weekend after work, one could dress prepared for the night ahead.
As to the subject of my post though, one of the nicer ways to improve employee moral is to have a budget available for it. As spontaneous needs comes up, use it. Somebody work through lunch, take him out for lunch the next. Is one of your accounting department members feeling a bit chilly, get her a porcelain heater.
Little things with custom touches are the best way to show that you care, and the best custom touches are often the ones that show you are 'in touch' with your employees
Where I work, new members are automatically joined into the "social club." The idea is that the social club plans events for those in our board office (where my desk is situated) in an effort to, ya know, bring everyone together and have fun...
Instead it was a royal pain in the ass. Try adjusting to a move, a new job, and trying to handle social events. In addition, while my desk was at the board office 90% of the time I am on-site elsewhere.
Another bright idea pushed on employees down the drain. I think I made all of 2 social club meetings and after missing about a half-dozen or more they finally gave up with last-minute emails trying to get me to attend.
What was before the big bang. How about before that. And before that?
Basically they're saying that there are some things that are beyond/too-big-for human understanding. Certainly most people I know tend to get headaches thinking deep into the concept above, and the concept of ultimate original and infinity tend to how we define our lives and the passing thereof.
Personally I think you're free to think as you wish, so long as it doesn't involve blowing somebody else up to be with 15 virgins or whatever in the afterlife, but given that the scope of human intelligence and unstanding probably has limits it's not really fair to get angry with somebody for expressing that an answer is beyond theirs in understanding.
At least around when I was looking at the FX 5xxx series there were cards that supported TV-in from NVidia. Look for the "Personal Cinema" line as they would have the functionality you mention
Realistically though, the reason I didn't go with the "personal cinema" line is that for the price given you might as well spend the extra couple bucks and get a seperate TV-in card. That way when you upgrade you're extra-cost TV features out the door.
Still, if you're still interested the 5000 line had one such as this and I'd imagine the newer lines do as well.