I wasn't even aware of this feature until I started reading echo-chamber blog articles about how weak the encryption was. This doesn't make the issue any more or less legitimate but it sure does make the post seem a little fantastic.
2nding the T61. We have trouble finding high-end laptops that don't come with subwoofers and Splinter Cell stickers; our new T61 fits the bill exactly and has a matte 1920x1200 screen.
I think normally a boycott involves just giving up that company's products, rather than continuing to obtain them and just skipping the payment part. So you want Linkin Park to starve, but you're not *quite* ready to actually stop listening to them?
Assuming just for a second that 'the terrorists' have no better way to find the location of nuke plants than by scrolling google maps looking for pixels; what exactly are we worried they're going to do with this information, that they couldn't do without it? Drive to the plant and give it a threatening look? Jump in their bomber fleet and drop daisy cutters?
325 cfm would be changing out the air inside the case 2-5 times per SECOND. There would be howling, things flying around the room, wicked witches floating by, etc.
If this system runs well cooled by the knockoff ionic breeze, I have a strong feeling it would also cool just fine with wishes and hopes.
Let me make sure I have this straight... commercial licensing is bad, and we should do all we can to defeat it, because licensing is bad, I own my content, the revolution will not be televised!!111!!!, etc. But breaking a Creative Commons license is bad and wrong?
Assuming an egg has the heat capacity of 60g of water, and a 1000mAh * 3.7V cell phone battery, it looks like a fully charged cell phone battery could actually raise the temperature of an egg by 55 degrees C. That is, if you could somehow expend your entire battery into heat, and have it all go into the egg, you could cook one.
The article is still a joke, of course - the egg won't even come close to warming by any measurable amount.
Using a pair of 5-year-old computers, two home DSL connections, 42 hours of computer time, and 5 man hours, I now had documents describing the reading preferences of 260,000 U.S. citizens. They're not "reading preferences", they're deliberately shared gift registries. Funny how if you take every single noun and push it 3 steps towards paranoia you get an interesting article out of nothing at all.
Tempted as I was to provide satellite images of the homes of the search subjects, it just seemed a bit extreme even for this article. Ooooh, that *is* a bit extreme. Armed with images of the alleged subversives' roofs, we could plan covert chimney-entry ops.
Maybe some of you guys already saw this guy get (politely but firmly) put in his place in the forum over there.
Hey,
Sorry you had so many problems trying to build your own Media Center.
So the reason you can't burn DVDs through the Media Center interface is because you need the Sonic encoders for the Sonic burn engine which is what is used by Media Center to burn DVDs. Unfortunately, the Sonic encoders are only available to OEMs and are not available to system builders.
This is just one of the many reasons (you ran into several others) why Media Center is not available as a standalone OS (unless you go through Newegg).
Side note, if any of you hosers don't have a Chillow ( http://www.soothsoft.com/chillow.htm/ ) , you should check it out. My face gets hot when I sleep and I love this thing. The only hard part is explaining to strange chicks why I have a big plastic thing in my pillow.
You can get 'em at your local Walgreen; look hard.
How much does a 1kg bag of ice cost? Not a rhetorical question.
For reference, a small (8000btu) room air conditioner running for an hour gives as much cooling power as 25kg of ice. Electricity cost for the room a/c = $0.15; cost for 25kg of ice = ? I think the room A/C pays for itself quite quickly.
a) Most people - especially poor people who can't afford a room A/C - don't have a sealed door between their fridge and kitchen, and even if he does he's going to drag heat back when you go in there for more ice. In either case, it's going to quickly use up far more of his "limited funds" than a room A/C sinking to the outside would.
b) I did think it through; my reasons for calling him a moron were many and varied. For example, this is not a "basic heat pump", and for someone who has taken a Thermo class to not know that definitely makes them moron.
I know you were being semi-sarcastic, but the problem is, because the fridge sinks heat to the room, you're going to have a net result of warming the room. You've got the heat you took out of the water, PLUS the heat from the inefficiency of the fridge.
It's the same thing as running a room air conditioner in the middle of the floor in your living room. Ooh! Cool air from the front! Just don't go behind it...
Wait... this retard thinks that using his fridge, inside his house, to produce ice... then cooling with the ice... is going to make his house cooler?
He could accomplish the exact same thing by just opening his freezer door, right?
I hope this kid's Thermo professor sees this and kicks him out of school.
Dammit, then, I should be able to push "9-1-1" right now on my numeric keypad and somehow be connected! After all, I'm on the Intarweb, and the numbers are RIGHT THERE!
From what I understand, Bill Gates' foundation does not have anything to do with Microsoft, though, does it (other than being funded by money that Gates earned due to his job at M$)?
Yes, other than the freakin' billions of dollars flowing from the one to the other, they don't have a single thing to do with each other. So, a pretty minor connection than.
This isn't kindergarten... nobody should need a 'policy' to tell them that if they badmouth their employer in public (or otherwise reflect badly on them), they're not going to be welcome at work for much longer.
It's called 'biting the hand that feeds you', and it's never a particularly smart idea.
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If an alert from their phone causes someone to swerve, I hate to think what they'd do when honked at, or - worse - in an actual accident situation.
I wasn't even aware of this feature until I started reading echo-chamber blog articles about how weak the encryption was. This doesn't make the issue any more or less legitimate but it sure does make the post seem a little fantastic.
2nding the T61. We have trouble finding high-end laptops that don't come with subwoofers and Splinter Cell stickers; our new T61 fits the bill exactly and has a matte 1920x1200 screen.
I think normally a boycott involves just giving up that company's products, rather than continuing to obtain them and just skipping the payment part. So you want Linkin Park to starve, but you're not *quite* ready to actually stop listening to them?
Assuming just for a second that 'the terrorists' have no better way to find the location of nuke plants than by scrolling google maps looking for pixels; what exactly are we worried they're going to do with this information, that they couldn't do without it? Drive to the plant and give it a threatening look? Jump in their bomber fleet and drop daisy cutters?
While Ford wants to simply offer cosmetic changes to automobiles interiors and exteriors
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Ford is showing a 65mpg diesel hybrid - with supplemental solar power, no less. I'm not sure why 50mpg hybrids from GM are a revelation but a 65mpg diesel hybrid from Ford is "cosmetic", but there you go.
http://www.autonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID
You forgot direction. The acceleration is almost completely towards the center of the circle (centripetal).
325 cfm would be changing out the air inside the case 2-5 times per SECOND. There would be howling, things flying around the room, wicked witches floating by, etc.
If this system runs well cooled by the knockoff ionic breeze, I have a strong feeling it would also cool just fine with wishes and hopes.
Let me make sure I have this straight... commercial licensing is bad, and we should do all we can to defeat it, because licensing is bad, I own my content, the revolution will not be televised!!111!!!, etc. But breaking a Creative Commons license is bad and wrong?
Assuming an egg has the heat capacity of 60g of water, and a 1000mAh * 3.7V cell phone battery, it looks like a fully charged cell phone battery could actually raise the temperature of an egg by 55 degrees C. That is, if you could somehow expend your entire battery into heat, and have it all go into the egg, you could cook one.
The article is still a joke, of course - the egg won't even come close to warming by any measurable amount.
Using a pair of 5-year-old computers, two home DSL connections, 42 hours of computer time, and 5 man hours, I now had documents describing the reading preferences of 260,000 U.S. citizens.
They're not "reading preferences", they're deliberately shared gift registries. Funny how if you take every single noun and push it 3 steps towards paranoia you get an interesting article out of nothing at all.
Tempted as I was to provide satellite images of the homes of the search subjects, it just seemed a bit extreme even for this article.
Ooooh, that *is* a bit extreme. Armed with images of the alleged subversives' roofs, we could plan covert chimney-entry ops.
Maybe some of you guys already saw this guy get (politely but firmly) put in his place in the forum over there.
Hey,
Sorry you had so many problems trying to build your own Media Center.
So the reason you can't burn DVDs through the Media Center interface is because you need the Sonic encoders for the Sonic burn engine which is what is used by Media Center to burn DVDs. Unfortunately, the Sonic encoders are only available to OEMs and are not available to system builders.
This is just one of the many reasons (you ran into several others) why Media Center is not available as a standalone OS (unless you go through Newegg).
Matt
Program Manager
Windows Media Center.
Side note, if any of you hosers don't have a Chillow ( http://www.soothsoft.com/chillow.htm/ ) , you should check it out. My face gets hot when I sleep and I love this thing. The only hard part is explaining to strange chicks why I have a big plastic thing in my pillow.
You can get 'em at your local Walgreen; look hard.
Huh... does U-Waterloo water also come with ice chunks and frozen bottles of water in it, as pictured on the site? That must be hell on the pipes!
How much does a 1kg bag of ice cost? Not a rhetorical question.
For reference, a small (8000btu) room air conditioner running for an hour gives as much cooling power as 25kg of ice. Electricity cost for the room a/c = $0.15; cost for 25kg of ice = ? I think the room A/C pays for itself quite quickly.
a) Most people - especially poor people who can't afford a room A/C - don't have a sealed door between their fridge and kitchen, and even if he does he's going to drag heat back when you go in there for more ice. In either case, it's going to quickly use up far more of his "limited funds" than a room A/C sinking to the outside would.
b) I did think it through; my reasons for calling him a moron were many and varied. For example, this is not a "basic heat pump", and for someone who has taken a Thermo class to not know that definitely makes them moron.
I know you were being semi-sarcastic, but the problem is, because the fridge sinks heat to the room, you're going to have a net result of warming the room. You've got the heat you took out of the water, PLUS the heat from the inefficiency of the fridge.
It's the same thing as running a room air conditioner in the middle of the floor in your living room. Ooh! Cool air from the front! Just don't go behind it...
Wait... this retard thinks that using his fridge, inside his house, to produce ice... then cooling with the ice... is going to make his house cooler? He could accomplish the exact same thing by just opening his freezer door, right? I hope this kid's Thermo professor sees this and kicks him out of school.
I actually thought MS might have crippled the download at first because I tried it with Firefox. I guess they haven't stooped that low yet.
Err, well, thanks for keeping us up to date on your paranoid fantasies, then.
Dammit, then, I should be able to push "9-1-1" right now on my numeric keypad and somehow be connected! After all, I'm on the Intarweb, and the numbers are RIGHT THERE!
My baby could DIE!
Even with no heat loss to the air, I've got 10 minutes per degree C raise, at 20 gallons of mineral oil and 200 watts of power.
It's probably moot because that's a ton of cooling surface area.
Word. "Less voltage" is not the same thing as "less power".
From what I understand, Bill Gates' foundation does not have anything to do with Microsoft, though, does it (other than being funded by money that Gates earned due to his job at M$)?
Yes, other than the freakin' billions of dollars flowing from the one to the other, they don't have a single thing to do with each other. So, a pretty minor connection than.
They certainly don't have any say in what you do at home.
But them continuing to employ you is a courtesy, kind of like you refraining from slurring them online is a courtesy.
This isn't kindergarten... nobody should need a 'policy' to tell them that if they badmouth their employer in public (or otherwise reflect badly on them), they're not going to be welcome at work for much longer.
It's called 'biting the hand that feeds you', and it's never a particularly smart idea.