How is that different from games? With games, the minimum requirements often will give you a very reduced version of the game. A network card isn't in the requirements, but you don't get to play online if you don't have one. That's quite a significant part of many games.
Well, Ethanol, has a density of 0.789 g/mL. There are 3785 mL in a gallon. So 588,000,000 gallons is 2225580000000 mL. Which would weigh, 1,755,000,000 KG. That would mean that each person would have to produce 5 KG of biomass each day, assuming you could convert 100% of that biomass to ethanol (impossible). I think you have the right solution. We need to drive less. We need to live closer to work, and design cities in ways that make this possible. With all the technology we have, it's possible to have business meetings virtually over the internet, but still most business meetings are done live, in person, by people flying all over the country.
Let's compare minimum requirements for Vista to the minimum requirements that most game developers come up with. When I used to buy PC games, the minimum requirements got you 640x480 with all the graphics turned down to minimum, along with the sound quality dropped down also. And it only ran at 20-30 FPS. Less if there was lots going on. The experience on Vista with the minimum requirements is about the same. You don't get any shiny graphics, and it runs quite slowly. Quite often the frame rate drops to zero few 10 seconds while it brings up a UAC dialog, but it works, and it is usable, assuming you aren't trying to run a bunch of memory hungry apps. I wouldn't want to run VS.Net or Photoshop on a machine with Vista and only 512 MB of RAM. But if you're just browsing the web and doing some word processing, the minimum requirements are fine.
Who's to say that if your friend sent you an MSN message that it was actually your friend sending you an MSN message, an not some virus on his computer sending you a the link. I've seen viruses before that do this. They send you an MSN message saying to go check out this picture of yourself online. When you go to open it, it's actually an exe, with a copy of the virus in it. So unsuspecting users will download, and allow it to run, and get themselves infected. Also, how do you really tell (beyond a resonable doubt) what the picture is in a 100x100 thumbnail image? It could be child porn, or it could be legal porn of a girl with not much of a figure, and shaved body hair. I'm not saying that this guy is innocent, but it seems to me like there's a lot of room for error.
What if you need access to 250 GB of data. That could easily fit on a hard disk. However, transporting it over the internet could prove quite difficult. Even though many hotels have wireless, sometimes it is as slow as dial-up. If you don't bring your data with you, you risk not being able to access it at all.
Or they completely screw up the checksum ala NForce4, and all your downloads end up becoming corrupted. The only way to remedy this is to completely disable the integrated checksum checking, which was your whole reason for buying said hardware in the first place.
Which is why it's just better to go with TrueCrypt at the moment. While hardware crypto would ideally be better, the lack of good products you can actually buy means that right now, software is a much better solution. Buy whichever drive you want, and just use software crypto.
The only problem I see with using cloned animals for a task like this, is that they will only ever be so good. Assuming the genetic make-up and training is the same for all these dogs, and that they have a proficiency of X, then you will never get a dog that is better than X (by some margin). If you use selective breeding to try and produce better and better dogs with each generation, you could end up with a better product in the end.
Well, he (actually not him, the graphics effects people) did make it very pretty, but my overall level of excitement from the movie is pretty low. There was a lot of parts that just really dragged on.
I know. I was just trying to start a discussion about the inherrent openess of Javascript, and to remind everyone that when you do program in Javascript, that the source is out there for everyone to see. Open source means different things to different people. To some people it means you can do whatever you want with the source (BSD). To others, it means you can do whatever you want, as long as the changes you make are also released as open source, under the same license (GPL). To others, it simply means that you can see the source, and not that you have any rights to distribute or modify it (Microsoft).
From what I read, they said they would block browsers which didn't have detection of phishing sites. That includes Safari, and quite a few other browsers which would probably be otherwise considered secure.
The military gives some of the best prosthetics around to their maimed soldiers. They certainly get a lot better limbs than most other amputees can afford. I agree with you about the mental stresses of war, and how they are pretty much irreversible, but they do as well as they can on the physical healing side. Feel from to correct me if I am wrong, but from what I have seen, the limb replacement initiatives for the US military are about as good as you could hope for, apart from not losing the limb at all.
I wonder why they set so many cookies. Why not just have a single session cookie, and keep all other session values on the server? It must create a little extra traffic having to send back all those cookie values on every single request. Cookies have their use if you have no server-side scripting support, like on the old Geocities and Tripod hosting services, but I don't see much of a use for them otherwise.
Well, if you just had an existing MMORPG, and could easily modify it with little work, I could see this working out pretty well. Similar to all the FPS games that use the Quake or Unreal engine. Just take something that already works, add some new graphics, and voila, a new product.
A very large percentage of computers are bought for work. For home, where you might want to watch a movie, a widescreen can be nice. But at work, it offers no advantage at all. Personally, I watch very few movies on my computer. That's what my TV is for.
Any option to turn these monitors sideways, and use them as an extra high monitor? I know I saw a few CRTs that were extra tall at the newspaper where my step-dad used to work. I know most video cards provide options for rotating the monitor in software, but I'm not sure how many monitors have support for it in the the way they are mounted to the base.
Most murderers don't commit their crimes with a police officer in their presence either. That doesn't stop the police from arresting them. Sure, it's a much more serious offence, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't be charged for smaller offenses just because the police didn't actually see you. Sure there might be a small number of situations where somebody reports a traffic offence against someone, just because they don't like them, but I think that you could resolve that in court, if you could prove that you weren't in the area, or that the guy had some kind of personal vendetta against you.
Do you remember the mice we had back when Doom was popular? A keyboard may only have one speed, and may only be so precise, but some of the terrible mice that existed back then weren't really up to being precise or speedy. I just tried replaying lemmings with a nice LED mouse, and it's 10x easier than it used to be with the clunky old mice we had back in the 90's. And like I said. Later games like Quake require a mouse to be played properly. However doom could be played extremely well with just the keyboard.
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How is that different from games? With games, the minimum requirements often will give you a very reduced version of the game. A network card isn't in the requirements, but you don't get to play online if you don't have one. That's quite a significant part of many games.
Well, Ethanol, has a density of 0.789 g/mL. There are 3785 mL in a gallon. So 588,000,000 gallons is 2225580000000 mL. Which would weigh, 1,755,000,000 KG. That would mean that each person would have to produce 5 KG of biomass each day, assuming you could convert 100% of that biomass to ethanol (impossible). I think you have the right solution. We need to drive less. We need to live closer to work, and design cities in ways that make this possible. With all the technology we have, it's possible to have business meetings virtually over the internet, but still most business meetings are done live, in person, by people flying all over the country.
Let's compare minimum requirements for Vista to the minimum requirements that most game developers come up with. When I used to buy PC games, the minimum requirements got you 640x480 with all the graphics turned down to minimum, along with the sound quality dropped down also. And it only ran at 20-30 FPS. Less if there was lots going on. The experience on Vista with the minimum requirements is about the same. You don't get any shiny graphics, and it runs quite slowly. Quite often the frame rate drops to zero few 10 seconds while it brings up a UAC dialog, but it works, and it is usable, assuming you aren't trying to run a bunch of memory hungry apps. I wouldn't want to run VS.Net or Photoshop on a machine with Vista and only 512 MB of RAM. But if you're just browsing the web and doing some word processing, the minimum requirements are fine.
Who's to say that if your friend sent you an MSN message that it was actually your friend sending you an MSN message, an not some virus on his computer sending you a the link. I've seen viruses before that do this. They send you an MSN message saying to go check out this picture of yourself online. When you go to open it, it's actually an exe, with a copy of the virus in it. So unsuspecting users will download, and allow it to run, and get themselves infected. Also, how do you really tell (beyond a resonable doubt) what the picture is in a 100x100 thumbnail image? It could be child porn, or it could be legal porn of a girl with not much of a figure, and shaved body hair. I'm not saying that this guy is innocent, but it seems to me like there's a lot of room for error.
What if you need access to 250 GB of data. That could easily fit on a hard disk. However, transporting it over the internet could prove quite difficult. Even though many hotels have wireless, sometimes it is as slow as dial-up. If you don't bring your data with you, you risk not being able to access it at all.
Or they completely screw up the checksum ala NForce4, and all your downloads end up becoming corrupted. The only way to remedy this is to completely disable the integrated checksum checking, which was your whole reason for buying said hardware in the first place.
Which is why it's just better to go with TrueCrypt at the moment. While hardware crypto would ideally be better, the lack of good products you can actually buy means that right now, software is a much better solution. Buy whichever drive you want, and just use software crypto.
Can we fix the broken CSS on the idle section with some duct tape?
That movie rocks. I recommend that everybody should see that. Along with the Japanese Zombie movie, Junk.
If you don't have to enter the password every time you boot up, there might as well not be a password.
The only problem I see with using cloned animals for a task like this, is that they will only ever be so good. Assuming the genetic make-up and training is the same for all these dogs, and that they have a proficiency of X, then you will never get a dog that is better than X (by some margin). If you use selective breeding to try and produce better and better dogs with each generation, you could end up with a better product in the end.
Well, he (actually not him, the graphics effects people) did make it very pretty, but my overall level of excitement from the movie is pretty low. There was a lot of parts that just really dragged on.
I know. I was just trying to start a discussion about the inherrent openess of Javascript, and to remind everyone that when you do program in Javascript, that the source is out there for everyone to see. Open source means different things to different people. To some people it means you can do whatever you want with the source (BSD). To others, it means you can do whatever you want, as long as the changes you make are also released as open source, under the same license (GPL). To others, it simply means that you can see the source, and not that you have any rights to distribute or modify it (Microsoft).
How can JS not be open source?
From what I read, they said they would block browsers which didn't have detection of phishing sites. That includes Safari, and quite a few other browsers which would probably be otherwise considered secure.
The military gives some of the best prosthetics around to their maimed soldiers. They certainly get a lot better limbs than most other amputees can afford. I agree with you about the mental stresses of war, and how they are pretty much irreversible, but they do as well as they can on the physical healing side. Feel from to correct me if I am wrong, but from what I have seen, the limb replacement initiatives for the US military are about as good as you could hope for, apart from not losing the limb at all.
I wonder why they set so many cookies. Why not just have a single session cookie, and keep all other session values on the server? It must create a little extra traffic having to send back all those cookie values on every single request. Cookies have their use if you have no server-side scripting support, like on the old Geocities and Tripod hosting services, but I don't see much of a use for them otherwise.
The company who already owns the engine could easily create the game using the engine they already own. No licensing needed.
Well, if you just had an existing MMORPG, and could easily modify it with little work, I could see this working out pretty well. Similar to all the FPS games that use the Quake or Unreal engine. Just take something that already works, add some new graphics, and voila, a new product.
My highschool physics teacher used to put Keanu Reeves and speeding buses into a lot of his questions. Made things a little more interesting.
Friction also equals heat. I imagine that a hard drive spinning at 10,000 RPM would generate quite a bit of friction.
A very large percentage of computers are bought for work. For home, where you might want to watch a movie, a widescreen can be nice. But at work, it offers no advantage at all. Personally, I watch very few movies on my computer. That's what my TV is for.
Any option to turn these monitors sideways, and use them as an extra high monitor? I know I saw a few CRTs that were extra tall at the newspaper where my step-dad used to work. I know most video cards provide options for rotating the monitor in software, but I'm not sure how many monitors have support for it in the the way they are mounted to the base.
Most murderers don't commit their crimes with a police officer in their presence either. That doesn't stop the police from arresting them. Sure, it's a much more serious offence, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't be charged for smaller offenses just because the police didn't actually see you. Sure there might be a small number of situations where somebody reports a traffic offence against someone, just because they don't like them, but I think that you could resolve that in court, if you could prove that you weren't in the area, or that the guy had some kind of personal vendetta against you.
Do you remember the mice we had back when Doom was popular? A keyboard may only have one speed, and may only be so precise, but some of the terrible mice that existed back then weren't really up to being precise or speedy. I just tried replaying lemmings with a nice LED mouse, and it's 10x easier than it used to be with the clunky old mice we had back in the 90's. And like I said. Later games like Quake require a mouse to be played properly. However doom could be played extremely well with just the keyboard.