Sure they have. They jacked up the price. For the price I paid for XP Pro all I could get was Vista Home Premium, and even that cost more than what I had paid for XP Pro years before. I'm not going to pay an extra $50-$100 for one thing I use (remote desktop) while removing some of the features from Home Premium (don't recall what they are now, but I know there are several things in Home Premium that are not included in the business version).
Not everyone. When I built a new computer last year I bought a Vista x64 OEM distro as well. I tried it for a few months with my Nivida 8800 GTS but was not impressed with its performance (system has 3 gigs of ram). I dual-booted between it and XP 64 Pro but ended up just formatting the Vista install because it was rather slow compared to XP on the same hardware and really had nothing extra to give me. DirectX 10 is not worth it, at least not yet in my opinion. And Vista removed a tool I use from time to time to work from home from the Home Premium version of Vista (remote desktop). You'd have to buy either the business or ultimate version of Vista for a tool that's been around for years. Ridiculous.
The Homeless are untouchable and holy to the Liberal Elite. "they can't help it" is a tired old excuse, and part of a sick co-dependency that should be treated by mental health professionals.
Are you trying to be funny? It costs a lot of money to keep homeless people locked up behind bars, a heck of a lot more money than just making a public shelter for them. The great majority of homeless people are suffering from moderate to severe mental problems that are going untreated. When they do get locked up the jail is becoming the de-facto mental hospital for them, something that was not intended but is the reality here in the US.
I think that's a bit too extreme since the whole point is to make it even easier to remember than your password.
What I always do is tell a small lie that I can guess quickly. For example if the question is what my elementary school then answer with another regional school. I don't actually use that pattern but it's something equally simple that is really easy for me to remember.
Pirating isn't risk free. How do you know there isn't a trojan in the cracked version of the game?
I personally wouldn't pirate because of that and also because I want the game developer to continue making games so want to pay so that they can. If lots of people don't pay they won't have as much money to make good games in the future. Seems simple enough to me. The logic is similar to that of voting. Why vote? Your one vote isn't going to make a difference. Well I vote because I feel that it's a duty of citizenship to vote and also because if most people didn't vote we'd fair much worse since people would be too apathetic to hold their leaders accountable. So while individually it may not matter in aggregate it sure as heck does.
I don't like McCain, but I like even less someone whose response to an economic crisis is to hike my taxes.
I'd rather have somebody that has the guts to raise taxes (like Bush Sr) than have some gutless president that is willing to start a war and grow the size of the federal government but choose not to raise taxes to pay for it, preferring to borrow money from foreign governments to pay for it now and let future administrations deal with the consequences (like Bush Jr).
What I always want to know is who the heck is going to pay for all this? If not us then is it OK to just pass on the debt to our kids? Or just wait until it's a total disaster and the value of our dollar drops substantially and just write off the debt?
I'd take a tax and spend Democrat over a debt and spend Republican any day. No tax and spend less Republicans don't get elected any more (if they ever did, I'd like to know under which Republican president the size of the Federal government shrank).
I was referring to a CESA (controlled emergency swimming assent). I didn't mean for someone to surface as fast as possible, just as fast as can be done safely (which, if you aren't doing a decompression dive, is 1-2 feet per second IIRC).
Neat! Can't wait to see that in the local dive shop, although I'm sure I'll wait a few years before buying one, assuming they add that feature to more affordable dive computers (not technical diving ones).
This is really the only sensible suggestion. My office building installed 2 showers in the restrooms in the basement (one for the girls and one for the guys, no coed the bastards). Rather than take a shower when I get up, I just pack my clothes into a backpack, put on my cycling clothes (spandex) and ride over. Arrive at the building, take a shower, get dressed, ready for work.
I've looked at some of the old Quake code and saw a fair amount of assembly in addition to ancient C code that I'm sure would need to be modified to work on an iphone.
I seriously doubt you could just compile that old code without some fairly significant modifications to make it work correctly.
If you think it would be easy, try looking at some of the code they've open-sourced and try giving it a shot.
Uggh, I'd hate to be the guy having to port all of that old C code to Objective C. That's cruel and unusual punishment if you ask me, regardless of how much money you get paid for it.
I said it would be difficult. For deaf people that already know sign language great. But for others we usually don't want to spend a year or more of intensive study to learn conversational sign language. A little keyboard and screen would be a heck of a lot easier.
Did he have you put on your mask and regulator at 5m depth and purge the mask too? That's part of the test to get scuba certified. Can be scary for some, one girl in my scuba class panicked on this test and shot to the surface of the pool.
Nothing wrong with blowing in your regulator before breathing (the first time) since, like your snorkel, it could fill with water too -- well, if it comes out of your mouth anyway.
Part of scuba training is learning some universal sign language (like 'going up', 'going down', 'follow me', 'out of air', etc). But to learn more advanced sign language would take quite a bit of effort.
Being able to send a text message would be nice when there's a disagreement about something (like "I want to go over there to look at something" and your diving partner wants to say "No, it's too dangerous because of currents"). I doubt this would happen often though. It would also be nice on decompression dives when you are waiting 15 minutes or more to decompress underwater and have nothing to do so you could have a conversation with your diving partner via texting.
Waterproof white boards and special markers are used for this purpose but where's the fun in that for a geek?
I think you're right. There's no way a normal, sensitive touch screen would work underwater at pressure (more than 10 feet below the surface).
What would be cool is some sort of underwater keyboard you could use to text each other. While you could theoretically communicate with Morse Code (tapping on your tank) it would be very difficult since it would be based on timing (impossible to hold a tone). Or you could learn sign language which would also be very difficult if you want to have anything like a conversation.
Seriously, any investors out there: if you make something like a waterproof keyboard with a built-in LCD screen (similar to some existing gaming keyboards) that could communicate to other keyboards scuba divers would buy it, probably at significant profit to you.
Yes you do. The trick is to position your tongue so that it touches the top of your mouth as you breath in carefully. This stops the water from going straight to the back of your throat and causing a dangerous coughing fit.
You don't breath in too much water, really no worse than the first breath or two from a snorkel you just purged (where you use the same tongue technique to prevent coughing).
You learn this technique so that you can breath from a regulator that is in free flow which can happen when the diaphragm in the regulator fails. Normally you would try to fix the free flow under water (there's a couple of easy tricks you can try) but if that doesn't work you need to know this technique. In addition to sipping air from the regulator you would also theoretically be ascending to the surface as fast as you can safely since you'll quickly run out of air.
Thanks! Yea, it's definitely heavy. Going down Pikes Peak I tried doing a stupid experiment: relying solely on brakes heading down from the peak, not sure what the heck I was thinking. There's a stop along the way down where they check your brake temperatures and suggest that you wait x minutes to cool off if they are over 300 degrees F. Well mine were 600 degrees so had to wait 20 minutes. I downshifted the rest of the way down (there's a special 'B' mode for engine braking) so didn't have to use the brakes too much the rest of the way down.
I meant to try to do a 0-60 timed test today with the Prius but forgot my stopwatch. The shifting is very nice and smooth. Just having cruise control and A/C is nice -- both were broke in my old Saab when I bought it.
For me the real test will be heading west into the mountains on I-70. Pikes Peak was relatively easy since it was all low speed (30-35 mph max). I haven't driven west on I-70 yet in the Prius but in my old Saab (which was a 1990 900 without a turbo) I couldn't maintain the speed limit the whole time.
Accelerating is pretty decent if you want to floor it with the current generation of Prius. I don't often floor it but it was a test I did when trying one out for a test drive. I'm pretty sure it would get to 60 faster than my old Saab but I guess I could do a test to see (I still have my Saab too). The Saab is a manual so even though it doesn't have a ton of power I might be able to get to 60 faster with it but I doubt it.
To me the Aptera looks like a general aviation airplane without wings. If it can handle steep grades and winter conditions and they were sold in Colorado I would get one in a heartbeat.
How is it questionable? The Prius retains its value more than any other car sold in 2007 (selling used in 2008 for virtually the same amount it was sold for new in 2007), it gets better gas mileage (I get 47-50 mpg in mountain and city driving vs. 25-28 mpg in my old Saab 900 hatchback that was a significantly smaller car), and has tons of safety features (side curtain airbags, side impact air bags, backup video camera, etc).
If you have the money and a 5-seat vehicle that can't tow does what you need then getting a Prius is a no-brainer.
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Sure they have. They jacked up the price. For the price I paid for XP Pro all I could get was Vista Home Premium, and even that cost more than what I had paid for XP Pro years before. I'm not going to pay an extra $50-$100 for one thing I use (remote desktop) while removing some of the features from Home Premium (don't recall what they are now, but I know there are several things in Home Premium that are not included in the business version).
It might be 4GB. I wrote the post at work. I should check since it might be 2GB in which case I really should add some more RAM.
Not everyone. When I built a new computer last year I bought a Vista x64 OEM distro as well. I tried it for a few months with my Nivida 8800 GTS but was not impressed with its performance (system has 3 gigs of ram). I dual-booted between it and XP 64 Pro but ended up just formatting the Vista install because it was rather slow compared to XP on the same hardware and really had nothing extra to give me. DirectX 10 is not worth it, at least not yet in my opinion. And Vista removed a tool I use from time to time to work from home from the Home Premium version of Vista (remote desktop). You'd have to buy either the business or ultimate version of Vista for a tool that's been around for years. Ridiculous.
The Homeless are untouchable and holy to the Liberal Elite. "they can't help it" is a tired old excuse, and part of a sick co-dependency that should be treated by mental health professionals.
Are you trying to be funny? It costs a lot of money to keep homeless people locked up behind bars, a heck of a lot more money than just making a public shelter for them. The great majority of homeless people are suffering from moderate to severe mental problems that are going untreated. When they do get locked up the jail is becoming the de-facto mental hospital for them, something that was not intended but is the reality here in the US.
I think that's a bit too extreme since the whole point is to make it even easier to remember than your password.
What I always do is tell a small lie that I can guess quickly. For example if the question is what my elementary school then answer with another regional school. I don't actually use that pattern but it's something equally simple that is really easy for me to remember.
Pirating isn't risk free. How do you know there isn't a trojan in the cracked version of the game?
I personally wouldn't pirate because of that and also because I want the game developer to continue making games so want to pay so that they can. If lots of people don't pay they won't have as much money to make good games in the future. Seems simple enough to me. The logic is similar to that of voting. Why vote? Your one vote isn't going to make a difference. Well I vote because I feel that it's a duty of citizenship to vote and also because if most people didn't vote we'd fair much worse since people would be too apathetic to hold their leaders accountable. So while individually it may not matter in aggregate it sure as heck does.
I don't like McCain, but I like even less someone whose response to an economic crisis is to hike my taxes.
I'd rather have somebody that has the guts to raise taxes (like Bush Sr) than have some gutless president that is willing to start a war and grow the size of the federal government but choose not to raise taxes to pay for it, preferring to borrow money from foreign governments to pay for it now and let future administrations deal with the consequences (like Bush Jr).
What I always want to know is who the heck is going to pay for all this? If not us then is it OK to just pass on the debt to our kids? Or just wait until it's a total disaster and the value of our dollar drops substantially and just write off the debt?
I'd take a tax and spend Democrat over a debt and spend Republican any day. No tax and spend less Republicans don't get elected any more (if they ever did, I'd like to know under which Republican president the size of the Federal government shrank).
I was referring to a CESA (controlled emergency swimming assent). I didn't mean for someone to surface as fast as possible, just as fast as can be done safely (which, if you aren't doing a decompression dive, is 1-2 feet per second IIRC).
Neat! Can't wait to see that in the local dive shop, although I'm sure I'll wait a few years before buying one, assuming they add that feature to more affordable dive computers (not technical diving ones).
This is really the only sensible suggestion. My office building installed 2 showers in the restrooms in the basement (one for the girls and one for the guys, no coed the bastards). Rather than take a shower when I get up, I just pack my clothes into a backpack, put on my cycling clothes (spandex) and ride over. Arrive at the building, take a shower, get dressed, ready for work.
I've looked at some of the old Quake code and saw a fair amount of assembly in addition to ancient C code that I'm sure would need to be modified to work on an iphone.
I seriously doubt you could just compile that old code without some fairly significant modifications to make it work correctly.
If you think it would be easy, try looking at some of the code they've open-sourced and try giving it a shot.
Uggh, I'd hate to be the guy having to port all of that old C code to Objective C. That's cruel and unusual punishment if you ask me, regardless of how much money you get paid for it.
Water conducts heat much better than air so I would guess laptops run much cooler in water than air so long as the water is 80-85 degrees F or lower.
I said it would be difficult. For deaf people that already know sign language great. But for others we usually don't want to spend a year or more of intensive study to learn conversational sign language. A little keyboard and screen would be a heck of a lot easier.
Did he have you put on your mask and regulator at 5m depth and purge the mask too? That's part of the test to get scuba certified. Can be scary for some, one girl in my scuba class panicked on this test and shot to the surface of the pool.
Nothing wrong with blowing in your regulator before breathing (the first time) since, like your snorkel, it could fill with water too -- well, if it comes out of your mouth anyway.
Part of scuba training is learning some universal sign language (like 'going up', 'going down', 'follow me', 'out of air', etc). But to learn more advanced sign language would take quite a bit of effort.
Being able to send a text message would be nice when there's a disagreement about something (like "I want to go over there to look at something" and your diving partner wants to say "No, it's too dangerous because of currents"). I doubt this would happen often though. It would also be nice on decompression dives when you are waiting 15 minutes or more to decompress underwater and have nothing to do so you could have a conversation with your diving partner via texting.
Waterproof white boards and special markers are used for this purpose but where's the fun in that for a geek?
I think you're right. There's no way a normal, sensitive touch screen would work underwater at pressure (more than 10 feet below the surface).
What would be cool is some sort of underwater keyboard you could use to text each other. While you could theoretically communicate with Morse Code (tapping on your tank) it would be very difficult since it would be based on timing (impossible to hold a tone). Or you could learn sign language which would also be very difficult if you want to have anything like a conversation.
Seriously, any investors out there: if you make something like a waterproof keyboard with a built-in LCD screen (similar to some existing gaming keyboards) that could communicate to other keyboards scuba divers would buy it, probably at significant profit to you.
Yes you do. The trick is to position your tongue so that it touches the top of your mouth as you breath in carefully. This stops the water from going straight to the back of your throat and causing a dangerous coughing fit.
You don't breath in too much water, really no worse than the first breath or two from a snorkel you just purged (where you use the same tongue technique to prevent coughing).
You learn this technique so that you can breath from a regulator that is in free flow which can happen when the diaphragm in the regulator fails. Normally you would try to fix the free flow under water (there's a couple of easy tricks you can try) but if that doesn't work you need to know this technique. In addition to sipping air from the regulator you would also theoretically be ascending to the surface as fast as you can safely since you'll quickly run out of air.
A teenage girl survived too.
The TDI has a fuel tank that stores 14.5 gallons. The Prius stores 11.9 gallons.
Also, does he drive in the mountains? I do and I'm sure if I was in the coastal plains or Kansas I could get even better gas mileage.
The TDI is also a diesel which costs more than regular gas.
Well, a witness lived so I doubt that it was a pro hit.
Thanks! Yea, it's definitely heavy. Going down Pikes Peak I tried doing a stupid experiment: relying solely on brakes heading down from the peak, not sure what the heck I was thinking. There's a stop along the way down where they check your brake temperatures and suggest that you wait x minutes to cool off if they are over 300 degrees F. Well mine were 600 degrees so had to wait 20 minutes. I downshifted the rest of the way down (there's a special 'B' mode for engine braking) so didn't have to use the brakes too much the rest of the way down.
I meant to try to do a 0-60 timed test today with the Prius but forgot my stopwatch. The shifting is very nice and smooth. Just having cruise control and A/C is nice -- both were broke in my old Saab when I bought it.
For me the real test will be heading west into the mountains on I-70. Pikes Peak was relatively easy since it was all low speed (30-35 mph max). I haven't driven west on I-70 yet in the Prius but in my old Saab (which was a 1990 900 without a turbo) I couldn't maintain the speed limit the whole time.
Accelerating is pretty decent if you want to floor it with the current generation of Prius. I don't often floor it but it was a test I did when trying one out for a test drive. I'm pretty sure it would get to 60 faster than my old Saab but I guess I could do a test to see (I still have my Saab too). The Saab is a manual so even though it doesn't have a ton of power I might be able to get to 60 faster with it but I doubt it.
To me the Aptera looks like a general aviation airplane without wings. If it can handle steep grades and winter conditions and they were sold in Colorado I would get one in a heartbeat.
How is it questionable? The Prius retains its value more than any other car sold in 2007 (selling used in 2008 for virtually the same amount it was sold for new in 2007), it gets better gas mileage (I get 47-50 mpg in mountain and city driving vs. 25-28 mpg in my old Saab 900 hatchback that was a significantly smaller car), and has tons of safety features (side curtain airbags, side impact air bags, backup video camera, etc).
If you have the money and a 5-seat vehicle that can't tow does what you need then getting a Prius is a no-brainer.