Well, eMusic already has MP3 songs available, although most of the music is from independent artists. They only charge about 30 cents a song. This is my biggest problem with iTunes. They charge almost the same price as the physical CD for a file transfered over the internet. Cutting out the entire distribution chain, along with losses due to breakage and theft, and there's no physical materials required, and they are still charging $11 for an album. I imagine that Amazons pricing will be right inline with iTunes, which will be either 99 cents a song, or 1.29 like the iTunes songs that they will be releasing in MP3 format.
Although I do enjoy a coffee made with fresh ground beans, in a French press, black, no sugar, no cream, I have found something else that I like. Mix instant coffee with milk, Mix with Hand blender for a couple minutes. Makes a great cold coffee drink at a fraction of the cost of what they'd charge you for something similar at Starbucks or Tim Hortons.
Well, if you're walking or taking public transit, then you really shouldn't be too sweaty, Unless it's really hot, and then almost everybody would be sweaty, just from walking to their car from the building. When I ride, I bring my work clothes in my pannier. If you take the time to fold your clothes, you should have no problems with wrinkling. As for the sweat well, as long as you make sure to wipe all the sweat off when you get to work, you shouldn't have any problems with smell or wetness. It's not necessarily sweat that smells, but the bacteria that grows once it sits around for a while. Just make sure you wipe yourself dry, and apply more deodorant, and you should be fine. Some amazing work places do provide showers, which would be optimal, but I don't think it's completely necessary.
Couldn't the computer convert the image to black and white (1-bit colour, not greyscale) before attempting the OCR? You'd probably have to do some configuring as to the threshold for converting to black/white, but It shouldn't really be that hard.
The problem here is that you're assuming that each car contains 4 people. From my observations in commute traffic, it's probably closer to 1.2 people per car. Almost all the cars have 1 person, with a high majority of those that don't contain 1 person containing 2 people.
I don't think there's many people that would fall for the wallet inspector, why would people fall for these social engineering attacks. I know a lot of people who sit down at a computer, and their brain turns off. They are smart people, but anything computer related makes them just lose all intelligence and common sense. People who would have no problem doing something like following instructions to assemble a child's toy, could not do something equally difficult like following instructions for sending an email with an attachment. I wonder if any studies have been done to look into stuff like this.
For the most part, I think that Vista is feature complete. Meaning they'll fix a few bugs, and drivers will get better, but the features they have now will be the same features that are there in 5 years. Just think about that. It was the same thing with XP, and is the reason that we were stuck with IE6 for so long. Just think about where MacOS and Linux will be in 5 years, and ask yourself if Vista will be good enough for you then, because MS won't be releasing any more features for at least 5 years.
This is my view too. I see a lot of people "working out" without doing any actual work, and not getting their heart rate up. You see people taking a leisurely walk on the treadmill, or "jogging" for an hour and a half. These people would get much better work out in much less time if they upped the intensity. If you're working out hard enough, your hands should be too sweaty to hold the controller properly, even if you're just pedaling your legs.
I ride my bike to work when the weather permits. Great exercise, and once you buy a bike, it's practically free. This helps me keep in relatively good shape and it also allows me to do 2 things at once by combining working out, and traveling to work. Oh, it's also faster than the city bus. Riding a real bike is much more interesting than riding a stationary bike. Even those complex ones at the gym that simulate hills.
But it's pretty easy to produce the paperwork. Just print out the GPL. Run it through the photocopier 10000 times if that's what they want you to do. How easy is it to produce Windows licenses for each and every Windows machine running in a large office building? How about MS Office? It's probably harder than you think for any business with more than 20 computers.
But if they can find that they differ consistently, then they can still get some important information. For instance, if they found that people who spend all their time killing boars in the woods also drink a lot of Mountain Dew, then if you started killing lots of boars in the woods, then they'd show you ads for Mountain Dew. Not to say you like Mountain Dew, but people in your demographic do, and that's good enough for them.
This is more true than most people think. Do you keep receipts for all the software you buy? Can you prove you have a license? The only safe software will be Open Source and Free. Anything else could land you in jail, because you can't prove that you actuallly have a license. This is why I think more businesses should be using open source software. It makes it a lot easier to keep track of licenses.
First, it's a levy, not a tax, and no, there aren't any levies on DVD-+*/^R's. I think the reasoning behind this is that you can't copy a DVD because of all that CSS stuff (nevermind how easy it is to remove). You can often find a spindle of DVDs for cheaper than a spindle of CDs, because there is no levy.
How can a bottle of soda be both 2 litres and 2 quarts when those measurements aren't equal? A quart is roughly 1.1 Litres. which isn't really that close to 1 litre. If you bought 2 litres, and expected 2 quarts, you'd be missing.2 quarts.
Which is why I prefer the computer games for FPS games. I don't like WASD either, so I switch the controls to use the numpad. With console games, you usually can't customize the controls. Sometimes you can pick from up to 4 options, but you can't customize all the controls. And I wasn't really being serious about metroid. I got used to the jumps pretty quickly, but it's just a joke based off some metroid review I read on the internet.
If people wanted to make legal documents easy to understand, and without contradictions then they would be able to do so in English, or any other language. Instead they make them impossible to understand, and contradictory, so that they may find flaws in them later if they wish to exit the contract. The only reason for making them so complicated is so that you can slip something unexpected past someone who can't get around all the legal jargon.
Actually, it's both. When your computer power supply is rate for 300 W, that means that it doesn't use more than 300 J of energy every second. Watts is a measurement that requires time. Even if you define it Amps times volts, you would notice that an Amp (ampere) is 1 coulomb per second.
150 KGs on 30 watts? I thought I'd do some calculation, but then I realized that it makes no sense. Watts is a measure of energy over time. I could make a machine that would excavate 150 KG of dirt with 1 watt, but it would take a very long time to complete the task. If they listed some kind of time constraint, as well as what type of distance the dirt was being moved to count as excavation, then you could probably do some useful calculations.
Actually, if you want to have everybody speak the same language then you'd probably be better off with Esperanto. Because like the metric system, it's designed to be logical. Using the imperial measurement system is akin to speaking any other language, when things are very ambiguous, and the rules can vary from location to location. For instance, when measuring in gallons, you could use US gallons, or Imperial gallons, both of which have different meanings.
However, if I was a systems admin, I'd much rather have the option to keep my systems secure by having the updates available then having the company sit around on fixes because they think the hackers don't already know what the bugs are. The most valuable tools a hacker has are those that nobody knows about. If people are aware of a bug, then it will be more likely that the hole isn't exploitable. If nobody knows about the bug, then you can catch a lot of people off guard, and break into a lot more systems.
You ever stop to think that maybe those lights mean something? That red light on your computer case shows you when the hard drive is doing something. When my computer slows down, I'll glance over to that light, If it's on, then I know it's waiting on the hard drive for something. That green light on your case shows you when the computer is on, so you don't accidentally push the power button when it's already on. Computers are so quiet right now, it's sometimes hard to tell if they are on or not. Those lights on your router can show you when a wire is disconnected, or when different computers are sending information. While I agree that some of the LEDs are unnecessary, I would say that I don't think there is many that I'd want to get rid of, and probably quite a few that I'd like to add.
There's plenty of people who are still on dial-up, or only have 1 computer, and therefore aren't behind a router or NAT. I have only 1 computer, and still have a router, but I don't think that's the majority of people. Most people wouldn't even consider having a router for only 1 computer. I've even seen cable modems that only connect via USB, because they think it's easier for people to hook up, as it's more likely that they have a USB port than a network port.
The US is the last to adopt any kind of standard. They still haven't even picked up on the metric system yet. How do you expect then to standardize of document formats?
An still, to this day, I don't understand why people like playing Goldeneye or any other console FPS. The control you get with the gamepad is about 1000 times worse then what you get with a keyboard and mouse to the point where I find it completely frustrating and, and am unable to play almost all console FPS games. The only exception is Metroid. This is because although it is a FPS, it isn't about twitch reflexes, and being able to aim perfectly. My only real complaint about Metroid is that there's too much jumping. Which is really hard in a game where you can't see your feet.
Final fantasy 7 was terrible. First of all, it was extremely linear. You couldn't venture off on many side quests, and you couldn't even get lost of make bad decisions on the main quest. Not only that, it required that you sit through a 2 minute cut scene every time you attack your opponent. It wasn't even as good as the original final fantasy. The graphics were better, but that's about it.
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Well, eMusic already has MP3 songs available, although most of the music is from independent artists. They only charge about 30 cents a song. This is my biggest problem with iTunes. They charge almost the same price as the physical CD for a file transfered over the internet. Cutting out the entire distribution chain, along with losses due to breakage and theft, and there's no physical materials required, and they are still charging $11 for an album. I imagine that Amazons pricing will be right inline with iTunes, which will be either 99 cents a song, or 1.29 like the iTunes songs that they will be releasing in MP3 format.
Although I do enjoy a coffee made with fresh ground beans, in a French press, black, no sugar, no cream, I have found something else that I like. Mix instant coffee with milk, Mix with Hand blender for a couple minutes. Makes a great cold coffee drink at a fraction of the cost of what they'd charge you for something similar at Starbucks or Tim Hortons.
Well, if you're walking or taking public transit, then you really shouldn't be too sweaty, Unless it's really hot, and then almost everybody would be sweaty, just from walking to their car from the building. When I ride, I bring my work clothes in my pannier. If you take the time to fold your clothes, you should have no problems with wrinkling. As for the sweat well, as long as you make sure to wipe all the sweat off when you get to work, you shouldn't have any problems with smell or wetness. It's not necessarily sweat that smells, but the bacteria that grows once it sits around for a while. Just make sure you wipe yourself dry, and apply more deodorant, and you should be fine. Some amazing work places do provide showers, which would be optimal, but I don't think it's completely necessary.
Couldn't the computer convert the image to black and white (1-bit colour, not greyscale) before attempting the OCR? You'd probably have to do some configuring as to the threshold for converting to black/white, but It shouldn't really be that hard.
The problem here is that you're assuming that each car contains 4 people. From my observations in commute traffic, it's probably closer to 1.2 people per car. Almost all the cars have 1 person, with a high majority of those that don't contain 1 person containing 2 people.
I don't think there's many people that would fall for the wallet inspector, why would people fall for these social engineering attacks. I know a lot of people who sit down at a computer, and their brain turns off. They are smart people, but anything computer related makes them just lose all intelligence and common sense. People who would have no problem doing something like following instructions to assemble a child's toy, could not do something equally difficult like following instructions for sending an email with an attachment. I wonder if any studies have been done to look into stuff like this.
For the most part, I think that Vista is feature complete. Meaning they'll fix a few bugs, and drivers will get better, but the features they have now will be the same features that are there in 5 years. Just think about that. It was the same thing with XP, and is the reason that we were stuck with IE6 for so long. Just think about where MacOS and Linux will be in 5 years, and ask yourself if Vista will be good enough for you then, because MS won't be releasing any more features for at least 5 years.
This is my view too. I see a lot of people "working out" without doing any actual work, and not getting their heart rate up. You see people taking a leisurely walk on the treadmill, or "jogging" for an hour and a half. These people would get much better work out in much less time if they upped the intensity. If you're working out hard enough, your hands should be too sweaty to hold the controller properly, even if you're just pedaling your legs.
I ride my bike to work when the weather permits. Great exercise, and once you buy a bike, it's practically free. This helps me keep in relatively good shape and it also allows me to do 2 things at once by combining working out, and traveling to work. Oh, it's also faster than the city bus. Riding a real bike is much more interesting than riding a stationary bike. Even those complex ones at the gym that simulate hills.
But it's pretty easy to produce the paperwork. Just print out the GPL. Run it through the photocopier 10000 times if that's what they want you to do. How easy is it to produce Windows licenses for each and every Windows machine running in a large office building? How about MS Office? It's probably harder than you think for any business with more than 20 computers.
But if they can find that they differ consistently, then they can still get some important information. For instance, if they found that people who spend all their time killing boars in the woods also drink a lot of Mountain Dew, then if you started killing lots of boars in the woods, then they'd show you ads for Mountain Dew. Not to say you like Mountain Dew, but people in your demographic do, and that's good enough for them.
This is more true than most people think. Do you keep receipts for all the software you buy? Can you prove you have a license? The only safe software will be Open Source and Free. Anything else could land you in jail, because you can't prove that you actuallly have a license. This is why I think more businesses should be using open source software. It makes it a lot easier to keep track of licenses.
First, it's a levy, not a tax, and no, there aren't any levies on DVD-+*/^R's. I think the reasoning behind this is that you can't copy a DVD because of all that CSS stuff (nevermind how easy it is to remove). You can often find a spindle of DVDs for cheaper than a spindle of CDs, because there is no levy.
How can a bottle of soda be both 2 litres and 2 quarts when those measurements aren't equal? A quart is roughly 1.1 Litres. which isn't really that close to 1 litre. If you bought 2 litres, and expected 2 quarts, you'd be missing .2 quarts.
Which is why I prefer the computer games for FPS games. I don't like WASD either, so I switch the controls to use the numpad. With console games, you usually can't customize the controls. Sometimes you can pick from up to 4 options, but you can't customize all the controls. And I wasn't really being serious about metroid. I got used to the jumps pretty quickly, but it's just a joke based off some metroid review I read on the internet.
If people wanted to make legal documents easy to understand, and without contradictions then they would be able to do so in English, or any other language. Instead they make them impossible to understand, and contradictory, so that they may find flaws in them later if they wish to exit the contract. The only reason for making them so complicated is so that you can slip something unexpected past someone who can't get around all the legal jargon.
Actually, it's both. When your computer power supply is rate for 300 W, that means that it doesn't use more than 300 J of energy every second. Watts is a measurement that requires time. Even if you define it Amps times volts, you would notice that an Amp (ampere) is 1 coulomb per second.
150 KGs on 30 watts? I thought I'd do some calculation, but then I realized that it makes no sense. Watts is a measure of energy over time. I could make a machine that would excavate 150 KG of dirt with 1 watt, but it would take a very long time to complete the task. If they listed some kind of time constraint, as well as what type of distance the dirt was being moved to count as excavation, then you could probably do some useful calculations.
Actually, if you want to have everybody speak the same language then you'd probably be better off with Esperanto. Because like the metric system, it's designed to be logical. Using the imperial measurement system is akin to speaking any other language, when things are very ambiguous, and the rules can vary from location to location. For instance, when measuring in gallons, you could use US gallons, or Imperial gallons, both of which have different meanings.
However, if I was a systems admin, I'd much rather have the option to keep my systems secure by having the updates available then having the company sit around on fixes because they think the hackers don't already know what the bugs are. The most valuable tools a hacker has are those that nobody knows about. If people are aware of a bug, then it will be more likely that the hole isn't exploitable. If nobody knows about the bug, then you can catch a lot of people off guard, and break into a lot more systems.
You ever stop to think that maybe those lights mean something? That red light on your computer case shows you when the hard drive is doing something. When my computer slows down, I'll glance over to that light, If it's on, then I know it's waiting on the hard drive for something. That green light on your case shows you when the computer is on, so you don't accidentally push the power button when it's already on. Computers are so quiet right now, it's sometimes hard to tell if they are on or not. Those lights on your router can show you when a wire is disconnected, or when different computers are sending information. While I agree that some of the LEDs are unnecessary, I would say that I don't think there is many that I'd want to get rid of, and probably quite a few that I'd like to add.
There's plenty of people who are still on dial-up, or only have 1 computer, and therefore aren't behind a router or NAT. I have only 1 computer, and still have a router, but I don't think that's the majority of people. Most people wouldn't even consider having a router for only 1 computer. I've even seen cable modems that only connect via USB, because they think it's easier for people to hook up, as it's more likely that they have a USB port than a network port.
The US is the last to adopt any kind of standard. They still haven't even picked up on the metric system yet. How do you expect then to standardize of document formats?
An still, to this day, I don't understand why people like playing Goldeneye or any other console FPS. The control you get with the gamepad is about 1000 times worse then what you get with a keyboard and mouse to the point where I find it completely frustrating and, and am unable to play almost all console FPS games. The only exception is Metroid. This is because although it is a FPS, it isn't about twitch reflexes, and being able to aim perfectly. My only real complaint about Metroid is that there's too much jumping. Which is really hard in a game where you can't see your feet.
Final fantasy 7 was terrible. First of all, it was extremely linear. You couldn't venture off on many side quests, and you couldn't even get lost of make bad decisions on the main quest. Not only that, it required that you sit through a 2 minute cut scene every time you attack your opponent. It wasn't even as good as the original final fantasy. The graphics were better, but that's about it.