There are some features like quarantine & an outlook plugin, but it works well even without those - the user's dont need to know it's there if you dont want them too.
Yeah. We use a pair of Barracudas at work and they're awesome. The web interface is intuitive enough that non-engineers can do the spam training and look for emails that got blocked unnecessarily. It auto-updates itself, and is totally transparent to the end users.
I couldn't imagine a better anti-spam system, unless maybe someone came out with one that deployed assassin robots to hunt down and kill the spam senders.
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I call bullshit - since Clinton reformed the welfare this is not possible. She can only receive benefits for a certain period of time and is required to be looking for work and she is required to accept the first job she is offered.
It seems to me that you'd need a pretty large house to consistently consume that much energy.
I have a 3BR apartment with electric heating. The previous occupants left it turned up relatively high (~70 Fahrenheit). The first bill I got was about $200. I can see it being much higher for a freestanding house with more space, washer/dryer, etc.
"Revolution" makes me think of guillotines and blood running down rain-soaked streets to chants of "Vive la France!"
You say that as though it's a bad thing. I would totally buy a box at a game store if I thought that's what was inside. I'd probably buy several, and keep one in my coat at all times in case I needed cover while I did something else.
Now that I think about it, it would be super sweet. The next time someone came to my desk to ask me about a project they'd been planning for a year and needed me to implement next week, but hadn't told me about until that very day, I'd open the box. "Vive la France! Vive la France!" and by the time they've got the blood cleaned up, I've made my getaway.
Is there a market out there full of people who want to use their portable devices in the least portable way possible?
I'm not interested in portable gaming at all. However, there were a handful of GBA games (Metroid, mostly) that I wanted to play. So I got a Gameboy Player for my Gamecube.
When someone (Sony, preferably) gets around to letting me play PSP games on a TV in a way that doesn't involve a crappy mini-cam kludge, I will probably buy a few of those too.
Nintendo is a Japanese company. In Japanese, any syllable that is a consonant and then an "i" is the "eee" sound. The additional "i" makes it longer, but does not change it to an "eye" sound.
But either way, it's a stupid name for a game console when sold in an English-speaking market.
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I know someone on welfare who is brilliant and would love to have a job instead.
Unfortunately, she is legally unable to look for a job as long as she's on welfare. She can't go off of it to look for a job because some necessary medication she takes is hundreds or thousands of dollars a month, and even if she did get a full-time job that had medical insurance, a lot of places make you wait awhile before you're covered. It's a catch-22.
I'm sure it's always worth a laugh for some people to take cheap shots at welfare recipients, but the reality is not often the way you may think.
...how gamers are any different from other [young] adults, in that they as a group tend to enjoy drinking and experimenting with drugs?
Yeah. I didn't see the original article, but reading this summary made me think a more accurate title would be "study finds that lifeforms on earth in general enjoy getting high, drinking alcohol."
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an actual hardware improvement that did make media "go faster".
It's easy to forget how important hardware support for media is. On my old computer (Athlon 1700+, 512MB RAM), the video card burned up and I had to swap in an old TNT2. I couldn't even play fullscreen video on it because the framerate dropped too low.
Everytime I see that switch, I think that companies like ThinkGeek are missing out on a great product that combines the tastiness of Fruit By The Foot with the mathematics cache of a Moebius strip.
They were actually used to clock the processor DOWN. i.e. "Turbo" meant the processor ran at the full 25MHz or whatever, whereas with turbo disabled the processor ran at something like 4.77MHz to allow old DOS games and the like to run properly.
Mod parent up, this is correct. A lot of really old software used the CPU timing instead of real-world time intervals. I remember in particular a biplane shoot-em-up that ran at ludicrous speed on a 486/33 in "turbo" mode.
I could foresee finding uses for three monitors in a work environment (although less frequently than I utilize two monitors). But four monitors? Five?
I use three monitors at work, and it's great. I treat them like the big display in Minority Report - whatever needs the most attention goes in the middle, and things I want to keep handy but are less important go to the side. One really big high-res monitor would work just as well, but no one will buy one of those for me.
For me personally, I could probably find a use for another three on top to make something like a HUGE widescreen display, but I think you're right that it wouldn't be as big a jump as from one to three.
Incidentally, I tried two first, and I didn't like it. It felt unbalanced.
Also, as cool visually as physics acceleration is, there's not a chance I would pay more than $100 for a card to do it. Isn't the Aegia card supposed to be $200-$300? Thanks, but no thanks.
I think, however, that they thought this was _too_ easy and too tempting for ordinary classes.
I am really liking Oblivion, but the things I miss from Morrowind are all along those lines - the Mark/Recall and Levitation spells especially. I also was annoyed that there is apparently no Mudcrab or Scamp merchants who have a lot of gold available, so I got a mod to add one because otherwise there was no one to buy higher-level items for what they're really worth.
I'm not sure why Bethesda was so concerned about minor "exploits" in a single-player game like this. It's not like you're ruining the fun for other people by using them, and being able to use Mark/Recall/Intervention to rapidly loot dungeons really appealed to my collect-everything instinct.
As far as physics are concerned, I think they're mostly fine. I could do with a bit less slip-and-slide action making me chase corpses down hills, and I don't like accidentally kicking things all over the floor in my house-of-hoarding, but those are minor nits to pick.
A simple matter to fix by recalculating your speed, jump distance etc. based on your load and max load.
Oblivion (and Morrowind) already does this. If you edge your way up to the maximum load, you might not notice it, but your character's speed and jump distance are considerably greater the less encumbered they are.
I can't remember if Morrowind did this, but Oblivion has a perk for the heavy armour ability where when you reach a certain level it encumbers you less. This also makes a dramatic difference in terms of speed and jumping ability.
This is silly, because undoubtedly the OS gives you a number of things that you'd have to do anyway, thus you no longer need to do them in your game.
While this is true to an extent, I think Sony is making a big mistake by effectively forcing online functionality into all games.
I don't play online. I don't want to chat with friends using my game console. I don't want content streamed in from the internet. I was planning on buying a PS3, but I may not if the offline aspect isn't as solid as on the previous generation of consoles. That's one of the main reasons I haven't picked up a 360 - it's not designed with gamers like me in mind.
They could also decide to stop gouging customers for every penny they're worth, and stick 50-100 titles on a retail disc that sells for $60, and not bother with the downloading aspect at all.
Interestingly enough, it's also used to treat ADHD (and panic attacks). I hope it doesn't turn out to have nasty side-effects, because it seems like a very useful drug.
I quit smoking when I started taking Concerta. It was still hard to do, and I had to use patches for a few months, but I was able to quit.
The GP is correct - part of the reason I smoked was that it gave me focus (I assume because of the acetylcholine/nicotine gateways in my brain), and having something that worked better, lasted longer, and wouldn't give me lung cancer was a big help.
If you look at a typical utility bill you're talking pennies a kilowatt hour.
I think their idea is to counteract the concept that for the same amount of power, they could be running much more powerful hardware. If the electricity comes from coal, they're wasting energy, but if it comes from biodiesel they're... uh... wasting energy in a way that sounds good to hippies?
And before anyone explodes in a shower of USA Today articles and Heritage Foundation papers, I've been modded flamebait more or less fairly many times for posting left-leaning opinions.
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There are some features like quarantine & an outlook plugin, but it works well even without those - the user's dont need to know it's there if you dont want them too.
Yeah. We use a pair of Barracudas at work and they're awesome. The web interface is intuitive enough that non-engineers can do the spam training and look for emails that got blocked unnecessarily. It auto-updates itself, and is totally transparent to the end users.
I couldn't imagine a better anti-spam system, unless maybe someone came out with one that deployed assassin robots to hunt down and kill the spam senders.
I call bullshit - since Clinton reformed the welfare this is not possible. She can only receive benefits for a certain period of time and is required to be looking for work and she is required to accept the first job she is offered.
That sounds like unemployment to me, not welfare.
It seems to me that you'd need a pretty large house to consistently consume that much energy.
I have a 3BR apartment with electric heating. The previous occupants left it turned up relatively high (~70 Fahrenheit). The first bill I got was about $200. I can see it being much higher for a freestanding house with more space, washer/dryer, etc.
This is in Seattle, just north of downtown.
"Revolution" makes me think of guillotines and blood running down rain-soaked streets to chants of "Vive la France!"
You say that as though it's a bad thing. I would totally buy a box at a game store if I thought that's what was inside. I'd probably buy several, and keep one in my coat at all times in case I needed cover while I did something else.
Now that I think about it, it would be super sweet. The next time someone came to my desk to ask me about a project they'd been planning for a year and needed me to implement next week, but hadn't told me about until that very day, I'd open the box. "Vive la France! Vive la France!" and by the time they've got the blood cleaned up, I've made my getaway.
Is there a market out there full of people who want to use their portable devices in the least portable way possible?
I'm not interested in portable gaming at all. However, there were a handful of GBA games (Metroid, mostly) that I wanted to play. So I got a Gameboy Player for my Gamecube.
When someone (Sony, preferably) gets around to letting me play PSP games on a TV in a way that doesn't involve a crappy mini-cam kludge, I will probably buy a few of those too.
why shouldn't Wii sound like why?
Nintendo is a Japanese company. In Japanese, any syllable that is a consonant and then an "i" is the "eee" sound. The additional "i" makes it longer, but does not change it to an "eye" sound.
But either way, it's a stupid name for a game console when sold in an English-speaking market.
I know someone on welfare who is brilliant and would love to have a job instead.
Unfortunately, she is legally unable to look for a job as long as she's on welfare. She can't go off of it to look for a job because some necessary medication she takes is hundreds or thousands of dollars a month, and even if she did get a full-time job that had medical insurance, a lot of places make you wait awhile before you're covered. It's a catch-22.
I'm sure it's always worth a laugh for some people to take cheap shots at welfare recipients, but the reality is not often the way you may think.
...how gamers are any different from other [young] adults, in that they as a group tend to enjoy drinking and experimenting with drugs?
Yeah. I didn't see the original article, but reading this summary made me think a more accurate title would be "study finds that lifeforms on earth in general enjoy getting high, drinking alcohol."
an actual hardware improvement that did make media "go faster".
It's easy to forget how important hardware support for media is. On my old computer (Athlon 1700+, 512MB RAM), the video card burned up and I had to swap in an old TNT2. I couldn't even play fullscreen video on it because the framerate dropped too low.
I am reminded of this classic NT startup screen.
Talk about -funroll-loops!
Everytime I see that switch, I think that companies like ThinkGeek are missing out on a great product that combines the tastiness of Fruit By The Foot with the mathematics cache of a Moebius strip.
Why doubled? Wouldn't they only need to test the parts of their software that could be affected by the chips' significant operational differences?
Ideally, yes. But it's rarely safe to make assumptions about what could or could not be affected by a change like that.
They were actually used to clock the processor DOWN. i.e. "Turbo" meant the processor ran at the full 25MHz or whatever, whereas with turbo disabled the processor ran at something like 4.77MHz to allow old DOS games and the like to run properly.
Mod parent up, this is correct. A lot of really old software used the CPU timing instead of real-world time intervals. I remember in particular a biplane shoot-em-up that ran at ludicrous speed on a 486/33 in "turbo" mode.
I could foresee finding uses for three monitors in a work environment (although less frequently than I utilize two monitors). But four monitors? Five?
I use three monitors at work, and it's great. I treat them like the big display in Minority Report - whatever needs the most attention goes in the middle, and things I want to keep handy but are less important go to the side. One really big high-res monitor would work just as well, but no one will buy one of those for me.
For me personally, I could probably find a use for another three on top to make something like a HUGE widescreen display, but I think you're right that it wouldn't be as big a jump as from one to three.
Incidentally, I tried two first, and I didn't like it. It felt unbalanced.
'smells like a press release to me.
I was thinking the same thing.
Also, as cool visually as physics acceleration is, there's not a chance I would pay more than $100 for a card to do it. Isn't the Aegia card supposed to be $200-$300? Thanks, but no thanks.
I think, however, that they thought this was _too_ easy and too tempting for ordinary classes.
I am really liking Oblivion, but the things I miss from Morrowind are all along those lines - the Mark/Recall and Levitation spells especially. I also was annoyed that there is apparently no Mudcrab or Scamp merchants who have a lot of gold available, so I got a mod to add one because otherwise there was no one to buy higher-level items for what they're really worth.
I'm not sure why Bethesda was so concerned about minor "exploits" in a single-player game like this. It's not like you're ruining the fun for other people by using them, and being able to use Mark/Recall/Intervention to rapidly loot dungeons really appealed to my collect-everything instinct.
As far as physics are concerned, I think they're mostly fine. I could do with a bit less slip-and-slide action making me chase corpses down hills, and I don't like accidentally kicking things all over the floor in my house-of-hoarding, but those are minor nits to pick.
A simple matter to fix by recalculating your speed, jump distance etc. based on your load and max load.
Oblivion (and Morrowind) already does this. If you edge your way up to the maximum load, you might not notice it, but your character's speed and jump distance are considerably greater the less encumbered they are.
I can't remember if Morrowind did this, but Oblivion has a perk for the heavy armour ability where when you reach a certain level it encumbers you less. This also makes a dramatic difference in terms of speed and jumping ability.
This is silly, because undoubtedly the OS gives you a number of things that you'd have to do anyway, thus you no longer need to do them in your game.
While this is true to an extent, I think Sony is making a big mistake by effectively forcing online functionality into all games.
I don't play online. I don't want to chat with friends using my game console. I don't want content streamed in from the internet. I was planning on buying a PS3, but I may not if the offline aspect isn't as solid as on the previous generation of consoles. That's one of the main reasons I haven't picked up a 360 - it's not designed with gamers like me in mind.
They could also decide to stop gouging customers for every penny they're worth, and stick 50-100 titles on a retail disc that sells for $60, and not bother with the downloading aspect at all.
Welbutrin is an anti-depressant.
Interestingly enough, it's also used to treat ADHD (and panic attacks). I hope it doesn't turn out to have nasty side-effects, because it seems like a very useful drug.
It wouldn't.
It did make it easier for me.
I quit smoking when I started taking Concerta. It was still hard to do, and I had to use patches for a few months, but I was able to quit.
The GP is correct - part of the reason I smoked was that it gave me focus (I assume because of the acetylcholine/nicotine gateways in my brain), and having something that worked better, lasted longer, and wouldn't give me lung cancer was a big help.
If you look at a typical utility bill you're talking pennies a kilowatt hour.
I think their idea is to counteract the concept that for the same amount of power, they could be running much more powerful hardware. If the electricity comes from coal, they're wasting energy, but if it comes from biodiesel they're... uh... wasting energy in a way that sounds good to hippies?
...if there are more than 1000 participants, Microsoft will pay them each $1000.
Does the other side not even get to be heard?
Not when it's posted like that.
And before anyone explodes in a shower of USA Today articles and Heritage Foundation papers, I've been modded flamebait more or less fairly many times for posting left-leaning opinions.
Research != commercial product.
I would argue that performing a procedure on patients who are paying over US$100,000 for it constitutes a commercial product.