Simple. Just do what I do. Let cookies be saved, but only until you close your browser. I do this except for my whitelist where I let it store cookies permanently. This is really easy to set up in Firefox. I also have flash block installed, which is the only plugin I have installed. As far as Javascript goes, I let that run, but there's only so much it can do with cookies disabled, along with a good popup blocker. Never really had much of a problem with Javascript.
Azureus isn't a browser though. It downloads torrents. They do completely different things. A browser actually has to render images, animations, and even videos. It has to parse large amounts of HTML, CSS, Javascript, and make sense of all that so that it can display it on the screen. Torrent applications are basically glorified FTP clients. They don't have to display anything on the screen at all. They just have to manage a bunch of internet connections and save some data to the disk. It's like me saying that Notepad uses less memory than Azureus, therefore C++ is better. Show me a browser with a similar feature set to Firefox written in Java, and then we can talk.
You are right. But it usually only costs less to rent out space when you don't plan to do something large scale. If you're options are set up a single rack with all the amenities of a wold class data center, then it's going to be much cheaper to just rent a rack at your local data center. However, if you are going to build a $300 Million data center, then renting the same amount of resources off of someone else is probably going to cost more. Somewhere in the middle lies the tipping point. The tipping point might be beyond $300 million, but I doubt it. Once you are building a large data center such as this, you are already taking advantage of economies of scale.
Even most $5 sunglasses say they block 100% of UV rays. So I don't see why a single pair of sunglasses wouldn't suffice. If they truly do block 100%, then what is getting through that is hurting my eyes?
Exactly. Either you build your own data center, or you host your applications in someone else's data center. The cloud is just a term we use to describe the situation when you're running your applications in someone else's data center, on their hardware, on their system configuration, and possibly with their applications. The data center doesn't cease to exist because it's somebody elses. It just means you pay more, because they have to pay for the data center, plus get a profit from running the thing.
Very true. If I post some code on my website, and display no license, then that code is mine. Nobody else a allowed to use that code for any other purpose. GPL gives extra rights to people to be allowed to use and alter that code, so long as they abide by the GPL. If you say the GPL isn't a valid license, then it defaults back to copyright, which means you aren't allowed to copy the code under any circumstances.
Also to be noted is that of that 33.6 kWh, you must consider the amount of energy converted into kinetic energy of the car. Because, when you combust gasoline, a lot of heat is produced. And that heat is not converted into kinetic energy, so it is essentially lost. The simple fact that we are combusting the gasoline means that there is almost no chance of ever getting close to 100% efficiency. Does anybody know what percent efficiency the average engine runs at?
Depends on what parts are still available. For Instance, I had a motherboard die about 6 months ago. AMD Socket 754. One option was to buy a new socket 754 motherboard. Other option was to buy a socket 939 motherboard + a new chip + new RAM (old ram AS DDR, socket 939 required DDR2). I chose to go with new everything, because it was only marginally more expensive, and because the rest of the old hardware would probably die soon anyway. Oh, and when I bought that socket 754, I did so because the old PC 133 SDRAM on my machine died, and it would have cost hundreds of dollars to replace, so I just opted to buy a new machine. Buying new parts works OK if the old one dies after a couple months, but if the old part does, and it's no longer something standard on new systems, you are going to pay a large premium for it. That RAM stick that cost you $20, 5 years ago may now cost $100.
Yes, but how many games from this genre do you need. after a while, they are all the same. I guess it's the same a buying the EA Sports NHL game every year. A lot of people do that. Although I never saw much need for it. Kind of a waste of money. I don't think I have need for more than 1 hockey game for each console.
Yes, but if you would usually be playing video games, you really aren't doing anything extraordinary if you are playing video games for charity. I think I would be much more likely to give to a charity of the people were actually going out and doing something they wouldn't normally do anyway. I think it would be great if somebody who was overweight came to me and said, sponsor me for each pound I lose, the proceed will go to the heart and stroke foundation. That's somebody getting up a and doing something. Having a bunch of geeks sit around and play computers isn't really that interesting.
Which is where the real problem lies. Currently, it's way too easy to get your license. People think it's a right, and if you make the test too hard, then people will complain. Personally, I think they should make the tests much harder, and have much harsher penalties for failing. In Ontario, they have graduated licensing, which means for your first year of driving, you can only drive with another driver who has at least 4 years experience, only during daylight hours, and stay off major highways unless you are with a certified driving instructor. After that, you get another year, zero tolerance with alcohol, but no other restrictions. After that you get your full license. I think it helps a bit, but they haven't really made the tests any harder, and there are still plenty of people who just serve their time without taking the time to learn how to drive.
I would say to just ignore the whole hardware encryption and just encrypt the thumb drive with truecrypt. Save a few bucks on the thumb drive, plus you won't have to worry about finding larger sizes. I don't think there are any advantages to having hardware encryption.
I think agnosticism is the only real answer. Pretending that you have any proof one way or the other, or that you truly believe one side or the other, is just ignoring the other side. There's a whole bunch of science that points to the conclusion that everything happens because of science. But there is also no direct proof that there is no god. There is only proof that god didn't do X. Whereas X is create the universe in 7 days, or flood the earth to get rid of the bad humans. There is no scientific proof that there is no god. Perhaps our current scientific methods are just unable to perceive god, just as they at one time were unable to to detect particles smaller than atoms. If you watch Religulous, you should walk out with a message, not that people who believe in god are crazy, but that people who think they know the answer one way or the other are just kidding themselves.
What's the difference between having a robot eat the guy, and leaving the guy to be eaten by the crows, coyotes, vultures, or whatever other detrivores are common place wherever you are.
My family of 4 doesn't own a car. We use public transit to get around. I ride my bike to get to work and back. Granted I don't think this is for everyone, but it's definitely possible, and not as bad as you might think. Grocery stores deliver. We do this about once every 3 weeks to deliver all the heavy stuff, and pick up produce and meat every weekend by bus. Bring a backpack and it's easy to carry it home. Grocery store will deliver anything you buy from them, including the potting soil. Like I said. Doesn't work for everybody, but if you can get it to work for you, you can save a ton of money. Money you can spend on other things, like a nicer house, or electronics, or nice vacations, or whatever else you like to spend money on.
I don't think the frequency with which you drive says anything about how good of a driver you are. I realize that the plural of anecdote is not data, but from my experience, the amount of time one spends driving has very little to do with how good of a driver they are. Except when you go to the very low end, where somebody may only drive once every couple of months. I mean, driving for 1/2 an hour each week is way more than enough to keep your driving skills up.
Very good point. While this probably won't stop people from doing their daily drive to work, it will probably stop a lot of people from driving their car on all those 5 minute trips to the corner store. I personally don't own a car, and get around by bus and bike. Sure it would be more convenient to own a car, but when I think about the cost of owning a car, I realize that there are a lot of other things I'd rather spend money on.
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That's not real food though. They compete pretty well on crappy prepackaged foods, but do pretty poorly when it comes to the fresh stuff.
Simple. Just do what I do. Let cookies be saved, but only until you close your browser. I do this except for my whitelist where I let it store cookies permanently. This is really easy to set up in Firefox. I also have flash block installed, which is the only plugin I have installed. As far as Javascript goes, I let that run, but there's only so much it can do with cookies disabled, along with a good popup blocker. Never really had much of a problem with Javascript.
However, if you are going to use hex to denote the year, then 2010 should be 7DA. 20A would not interpreted as 2010.
Azureus isn't a browser though. It downloads torrents. They do completely different things. A browser actually has to render images, animations, and even videos. It has to parse large amounts of HTML, CSS, Javascript, and make sense of all that so that it can display it on the screen. Torrent applications are basically glorified FTP clients. They don't have to display anything on the screen at all. They just have to manage a bunch of internet connections and save some data to the disk. It's like me saying that Notepad uses less memory than Azureus, therefore C++ is better. Show me a browser with a similar feature set to Firefox written in Java, and then we can talk.
You are right. But it usually only costs less to rent out space when you don't plan to do something large scale. If you're options are set up a single rack with all the amenities of a wold class data center, then it's going to be much cheaper to just rent a rack at your local data center. However, if you are going to build a $300 Million data center, then renting the same amount of resources off of someone else is probably going to cost more. Somewhere in the middle lies the tipping point. The tipping point might be beyond $300 million, but I doubt it. Once you are building a large data center such as this, you are already taking advantage of economies of scale.
The United States of Mexico of course.
Even most $5 sunglasses say they block 100% of UV rays. So I don't see why a single pair of sunglasses wouldn't suffice. If they truly do block 100%, then what is getting through that is hurting my eyes?
Exactly. Either you build your own data center, or you host your applications in someone else's data center. The cloud is just a term we use to describe the situation when you're running your applications in someone else's data center, on their hardware, on their system configuration, and possibly with their applications. The data center doesn't cease to exist because it's somebody elses. It just means you pay more, because they have to pay for the data center, plus get a profit from running the thing.
Very true. If I post some code on my website, and display no license, then that code is mine. Nobody else a allowed to use that code for any other purpose. GPL gives extra rights to people to be allowed to use and alter that code, so long as they abide by the GPL. If you say the GPL isn't a valid license, then it defaults back to copyright, which means you aren't allowed to copy the code under any circumstances.
Also to be noted is that of that 33.6 kWh, you must consider the amount of energy converted into kinetic energy of the car. Because, when you combust gasoline, a lot of heat is produced. And that heat is not converted into kinetic energy, so it is essentially lost. The simple fact that we are combusting the gasoline means that there is almost no chance of ever getting close to 100% efficiency. Does anybody know what percent efficiency the average engine runs at?
Depends on what parts are still available. For Instance, I had a motherboard die about 6 months ago. AMD Socket 754. One option was to buy a new socket 754 motherboard. Other option was to buy a socket 939 motherboard + a new chip + new RAM (old ram AS DDR, socket 939 required DDR2). I chose to go with new everything, because it was only marginally more expensive, and because the rest of the old hardware would probably die soon anyway. Oh, and when I bought that socket 754, I did so because the old PC 133 SDRAM on my machine died, and it would have cost hundreds of dollars to replace, so I just opted to buy a new machine. Buying new parts works OK if the old one dies after a couple months, but if the old part does, and it's no longer something standard on new systems, you are going to pay a large premium for it. That RAM stick that cost you $20, 5 years ago may now cost $100.
I don't see why this is such a bad idea. It's the next logical progression from major league eating.
Yes, but how many games from this genre do you need. after a while, they are all the same. I guess it's the same a buying the EA Sports NHL game every year. A lot of people do that. Although I never saw much need for it. Kind of a waste of money. I don't think I have need for more than 1 hockey game for each console.
Am I the only one who read this and though of harmonium?
Yes, but if you would usually be playing video games, you really aren't doing anything extraordinary if you are playing video games for charity. I think I would be much more likely to give to a charity of the people were actually going out and doing something they wouldn't normally do anyway. I think it would be great if somebody who was overweight came to me and said, sponsor me for each pound I lose, the proceed will go to the heart and stroke foundation. That's somebody getting up a and doing something. Having a bunch of geeks sit around and play computers isn't really that interesting.
Which is where the real problem lies. Currently, it's way too easy to get your license. People think it's a right, and if you make the test too hard, then people will complain. Personally, I think they should make the tests much harder, and have much harsher penalties for failing. In Ontario, they have graduated licensing, which means for your first year of driving, you can only drive with another driver who has at least 4 years experience, only during daylight hours, and stay off major highways unless you are with a certified driving instructor. After that, you get another year, zero tolerance with alcohol, but no other restrictions. After that you get your full license. I think it helps a bit, but they haven't really made the tests any harder, and there are still plenty of people who just serve their time without taking the time to learn how to drive.
I would say to just ignore the whole hardware encryption and just encrypt the thumb drive with truecrypt. Save a few bucks on the thumb drive, plus you won't have to worry about finding larger sizes. I don't think there are any advantages to having hardware encryption.
I think agnosticism is the only real answer. Pretending that you have any proof one way or the other, or that you truly believe one side or the other, is just ignoring the other side. There's a whole bunch of science that points to the conclusion that everything happens because of science. But there is also no direct proof that there is no god. There is only proof that god didn't do X. Whereas X is create the universe in 7 days, or flood the earth to get rid of the bad humans. There is no scientific proof that there is no god. Perhaps our current scientific methods are just unable to perceive god, just as they at one time were unable to to detect particles smaller than atoms. If you watch Religulous, you should walk out with a message, not that people who believe in god are crazy, but that people who think they know the answer one way or the other are just kidding themselves.
What's the difference between having a robot eat the guy, and leaving the guy to be eaten by the crows, coyotes, vultures, or whatever other detrivores are common place wherever you are.
But that includes research costs. Now that they already know how to build the thing, it would probably only cost 10% of that to do it all over again.
In case anyone missed that, here's what the parent poster is referring to.
Granted, if government covered medical insurance, then the only thing auto insurance would have to cover was property.
My family of 4 doesn't own a car. We use public transit to get around. I ride my bike to get to work and back. Granted I don't think this is for everyone, but it's definitely possible, and not as bad as you might think. Grocery stores deliver. We do this about once every 3 weeks to deliver all the heavy stuff, and pick up produce and meat every weekend by bus. Bring a backpack and it's easy to carry it home. Grocery store will deliver anything you buy from them, including the potting soil. Like I said. Doesn't work for everybody, but if you can get it to work for you, you can save a ton of money. Money you can spend on other things, like a nicer house, or electronics, or nice vacations, or whatever else you like to spend money on.
I don't think the frequency with which you drive says anything about how good of a driver you are. I realize that the plural of anecdote is not data, but from my experience, the amount of time one spends driving has very little to do with how good of a driver they are. Except when you go to the very low end, where somebody may only drive once every couple of months. I mean, driving for 1/2 an hour each week is way more than enough to keep your driving skills up.
Very good point. While this probably won't stop people from doing their daily drive to work, it will probably stop a lot of people from driving their car on all those 5 minute trips to the corner store. I personally don't own a car, and get around by bus and bike. Sure it would be more convenient to own a car, but when I think about the cost of owning a car, I realize that there are a lot of other things I'd rather spend money on.