At least where I live, taxes for public schools are collected via property taxes. You don't only play the tax if you have a child going to public school. I don't have any children, yet I still pay this tax.
Likewise, I can buy gas at a gas station and pay taxes that go towards maintaining roads, I then use this gas at home in my lawn mower, snow blower, etc. These things are never used on public roads yet the taxes are still paid and I have no way of opting out.
While they have a $1/yr salary. They still have stock options and other benefits that make up the difference. This is a tax dodge and not a show of generosity.
Premium is $50 and includes 5 expansion packs. Some people already had Back to Karkand from either purchasing the limited edition of the game or outright buying it.
But all of the expansions cost $15 so even if you already had Karkand and were going purchase the other four you still save $10. So anyone who knew they were going to buy all of the expansion were dumb not to jump on the pack.
The only legitimate argument is that nothing has been announced the last two expansion packs so some people might want to skip them. But overall premium is a very good deal.
They are also more profitable per employee than either Apple or Google. I think they'll be able to put up a fight. Sure their gaming market isn't as large, but they produce games that are played to have fun, versus casual games you can play for a minute or two while the barista is making your whatever crap your drinking.
Agreed, Detroit to the Mackinac City near the tip of the lower peninsula is 298 mi. Detroit to New York, NY is 614 mi if you go through Philly. However, Detroit to Copper Harbor which is the northern tip of the upper peninsula is 605 mi.
But, yes Michigan is huge if you actually count both peninsulas. There just isn't much developed if you go really far north. Ann Arbor, Flint, Grand Rapids, and Kalamazoo would all work well as areas for data centers. I know Ann Arbor, and Flint already have at least one data center apiece, and I wouldn't be surprised if Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo had some as well.
Detroit did lose power and is DTE, but I know it didn't hit Grand Rapids which is not DTE. Ann Arbor is still on DTE and I believe power was lost there.
You can see the areas DTE services on their outage map.
To make a mouse and keyboard work on a PS3 you need to put them into one of the PS3's USB boards, or pair them via Bluetooth. Only Unreal Tournament 3 supports actually playing a game with them. But they do work, just like they were compatible with the PS2.
They always have their upgrade program when a new version of Windows is coming out to keep people from holding off a few months to get a new computer since it would be dumb to buy one now when a new version is coming out in two months.
What the OP is talking about is that new computers that came with Vista on them came with the ability to downgrade to XP. We'll see if 8 is as hated as Vista, but forcing Metro down everyone's throat might lead to that. I also don't understand forcing metro into the new version of server. Metro is great for a tablet, but I'm still not sold on it as an interface for a traditional desktop.
It's not a true cloud setup as they are using RDP to connect to a local terminal server, but this server is replicated at a remote data center, so if the server were to go down because of a hardware issue, they could then be redirected to the remote server.
I'm not sure which model they are using but I think it's either the Wyse S10 or S30. These have a very basic OS build in that allow some windowing support so you can have multiple RDP sessions, they also have some that support dual monitors.
There have been cases where were one of the boxes has gone bad and we swap it out, but that's a simple case of unplug the power, monitor, keyboard, and mouse and connect them to the new box and the user is up and running right where they were.
Even with this setup, it hasn't removed the need to support individual users. It has removed a lot of the hassle of hardware failure causing weird issues only they see. But users still run into issues they need individual support for.
As professionals are either of you self employed? This changes how the taxes you owe will appears to you as you will see all the money getting paid and have to do quarterly estimates, etc.
But if you both work jobs where taxes are automatically deducted from a pay check, simply choosing one for the number of dependents for both of you should put you right where you need to be.
You do still get screwed over if you own a home because if you were living together but not married you could file separately and do a itemized deduction on one of your taxes, and tax a standard deduction on the other. You can't do that when you're married.
But what prevents a there being a rainbow table of 12 characters mixed case with special characters? The big thing with having a string of words as a password is that if creates a very large set of possibilities. A word list string together multiple dictionary words isn't going to be much better than a straight brute force attack.
Besides you can easily capitalize a single word or all of the characters in one of the words, and throw in a number and symbol in your sentence you you made your password even more secure while only being slightly less easy to memorize.
thisIS4verysecurep@ssword is much easier to remember than aB38$%| and it would take a lot longer to brute force it.
You might want to move then. There are 28 states with no duty to retreat there is a break-in your home. And another 17 states where you can stand your ground no matter where the attack takes place.
About three weeks ago there was an guy in his eighties that killed a robber with a shotgun and two other ran off. The media report his heroics in defending his property, and sleeping wife. Doesn't sound like he was considered a criminal.
Shooting fleeing suspects in the back when they are outside your home may bring about criminal prosecution, but it's up to a judge and jury if there was immediate threat at the time.
Of course the normal Facebook user doesn't pay anything. They are the product not the customer. Facebook's customers are all the companies that advertise on it, or buy people's private data.
Flash gives me about 60fps, where canvas was staying right around 90fps with an occasional drop to 75fps, though Flash also did have some slow spikes. This is on Firefox 11 with the on CPU Intel graphics on a mobile i7.
My Atom boxes running XBMC can access both Amazon instant watch, and Hulu content just fine. I can't access Netflix as I am running Linux and Silverlight doesn't exist on that. But if I actually used Netflix I have a PS3 or Google TV I could stream to.
Outside of Netflix XBMC will pretty much stream everything. The nice thing about the Hulu plugin is that you don't need Hulu Plus, and if you have Plus all of those shows that won't let you stream to a TV will still play just fine.
Just download the repository zip to the root of a thumb drive, and plug it into your XBMC computer. Then select to install an add-on from a zip, and choose the file on the thumb drive.
Both Amazon and Hulu require an updated Flash library, so make sure you are running XBMC Eden, otherwise you'll have to manually update the library, and there really isn't a good reason not to update to Eden.
Atom Dual core D510/w Nvidia ION. Add your own DDR2 RAM, and a small HDD or boot off a thumb drive. Then pick up a USB IR receiver for ~$15.
Install the XBMCbuntu or OpenELEC and your done. The mini keyboard with your box is handy, but outside of the initial configuration, I only every interface with a remote.
The only benefit to using a phone is that you have to enter a pin to enable the NFC chip so someone can't steal your phone and then start charging to it like they could a credit card.
I'm still not sure about using a phone though, I'd want some type of backup that doesn't rely on a battery. And it more resistant to drop damage.
You mean like a secured credit card that people with bad credit take out? As why are you worried about a stolen credit card unless you aren't in the US. In the US you are liable for a maximum of $50 and most/all credit card companies will waive that if your card is ever stolen.
Google wallet also allows you to pre paid an electric credit card so you can also do what you want on your phone if you have an NFC equipped android phone.
Try offline mode. I installed Steam on my wife's laptop and it automatically loads in offline mode and she can play any game other than online games that require Steam for multiplayer. This isn't much of an issue since she mainly sticks to single player puzzle games, I need to log into Steam once in a great while when it want's to reauthorize the account, but normally this isn't an issue since I'll have logged in to download a new game before that occurs. It's not the best solution, but it's worked just fine for two and a half years so far.
The problem with account sharing is that lots of people have a ton of games on Steam. And allowing multiple logins which negate a reason to buy games as you can just share an account with a friend. Offline mode is a nice compromise.
You really haven't used a game console in a while. For a PS3 and sometimes a Xbox 360 occasional usage is like this.
1) Start the console and what through the overly long boot animation 2) Wait for it to connect to the gaming network 3) Have it disconnect from the gaming network and tell you, your console needs an update and won't go online without it 4) Download the udpate, wait for it to install, and reboot your console 5) After the console starts back up launch the game, to have it tell you there is a required update for the game 6) Wait for the update to download and install 7) Finally play the game
This process is even worse if you are playing a game you haven't played before normally there is an automatic installation process you have to wait 10-15 minutes for. And that's after all of the updates it installs one by one.
We're already stuck, the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 are extremely outdated, and a five year old PC is more powerful than either of them. The upside is that you can still place games at a comfortable quality settings on a five year old PC.
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Those are very poor examples.
At least where I live, taxes for public schools are collected via property taxes. You don't only play the tax if you have a child going to public school. I don't have any children, yet I still pay this tax.
Likewise, I can buy gas at a gas station and pay taxes that go towards maintaining roads, I then use this gas at home in my lawn mower, snow blower, etc. These things are never used on public roads yet the taxes are still paid and I have no way of opting out.
While they have a $1/yr salary. They still have stock options and other benefits that make up the difference. This is a tax dodge and not a show of generosity.
Premium is $50 and includes 5 expansion packs. Some people already had Back to Karkand from either purchasing the limited edition of the game or outright buying it.
But all of the expansions cost $15 so even if you already had Karkand and were going purchase the other four you still save $10. So anyone who knew they were going to buy all of the expansion were dumb not to jump on the pack.
The only legitimate argument is that nothing has been announced the last two expansion packs so some people might want to skip them. But overall premium is a very good deal.
Nah, just get a droid who understands the binary language of moisture vaporators and get them running again. Luke did grow up on a moisture farm.
Valve was valued at between 1.5 - 2 billion last Feburary by Forbes. http://www.forbes.com/sites/oliverchiang/2011/02/15/valve-and-steam-worth-billions/
They are also more profitable per employee than either Apple or Google. I think they'll be able to put up a fight. Sure their gaming market isn't as large, but they produce games that are played to have fun, versus casual games you can play for a minute or two while the barista is making your whatever crap your drinking.
You could always just donate to the project.
http://xbmc.org/contribute/donate/
Agreed, Detroit to the Mackinac City near the tip of the lower peninsula is 298 mi. Detroit to New York, NY is 614 mi if you go through Philly. However, Detroit to Copper Harbor which is the northern tip of the upper peninsula is 605 mi.
But, yes Michigan is huge if you actually count both peninsulas. There just isn't much developed if you go really far north. Ann Arbor, Flint, Grand Rapids, and Kalamazoo would all work well as areas for data centers. I know Ann Arbor, and Flint already have at least one data center apiece, and I wouldn't be surprised if Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo had some as well.
Detroit did lose power and is DTE, but I know it didn't hit Grand Rapids which is not DTE. Ann Arbor is still on DTE and I believe power was lost there.
You can see the areas DTE services on their outage map.
http://dteenergy.com/map/outage.html/
Or you can get the freeware version right from SCUMMVM.
http://www.scummvm.org/downloads/#extras
To make a mouse and keyboard work on a PS3 you need to put them into one of the PS3's USB boards, or pair them via Bluetooth. Only Unreal Tournament 3 supports actually playing a game with them. But they do work, just like they were compatible with the PS2.
They always have their upgrade program when a new version of Windows is coming out to keep people from holding off a few months to get a new computer since it would be dumb to buy one now when a new version is coming out in two months.
What the OP is talking about is that new computers that came with Vista on them came with the ability to downgrade to XP. We'll see if 8 is as hated as Vista, but forcing Metro down everyone's throat might lead to that. I also don't understand forcing metro into the new version of server. Metro is great for a tablet, but I'm still not sold on it as an interface for a traditional desktop.
Wyse makes some that are deployed at a client of ours. http://www.wyse.com/products/cloud-clients/thin-clients
It's not a true cloud setup as they are using RDP to connect to a local terminal server, but this server is replicated at a remote data center, so if the server were to go down because of a hardware issue, they could then be redirected to the remote server.
I'm not sure which model they are using but I think it's either the Wyse S10 or S30. These have a very basic OS build in that allow some windowing support so you can have multiple RDP sessions, they also have some that support dual monitors.
There have been cases where were one of the boxes has gone bad and we swap it out, but that's a simple case of unplug the power, monitor, keyboard, and mouse and connect them to the new box and the user is up and running right where they were.
Even with this setup, it hasn't removed the need to support individual users. It has removed a lot of the hassle of hardware failure causing weird issues only they see. But users still run into issues they need individual support for.
In your rage you slammed down the receiver too hard and now the "on hook" button isn't registering correctly?
As professionals are either of you self employed? This changes how the taxes you owe will appears to you as you will see all the money getting paid and have to do quarterly estimates, etc.
But if you both work jobs where taxes are automatically deducted from a pay check, simply choosing one for the number of dependents for both of you should put you right where you need to be.
You do still get screwed over if you own a home because if you were living together but not married you could file separately and do a itemized deduction on one of your taxes, and tax a standard deduction on the other. You can't do that when you're married.
But what prevents a there being a rainbow table of 12 characters mixed case with special characters? The big thing with having a string of words as a password is that if creates a very large set of possibilities. A word list string together multiple dictionary words isn't going to be much better than a straight brute force attack.
Besides you can easily capitalize a single word or all of the characters in one of the words, and throw in a number and symbol in your sentence you you made your password even more secure while only being slightly less easy to memorize.
thisIS4verysecurep@ssword is much easier to remember than aB38$%| and it would take a lot longer to brute force it.
You might want to move then. There are 28 states with no duty to retreat there is a break-in your home. And another 17 states where you can stand your ground no matter where the attack takes place.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_law#States_with_a_Stand-your-ground_Law
About three weeks ago there was an guy in his eighties that killed a robber with a shotgun and two other ran off. The media report his heroics in defending his property, and sleeping wife. Doesn't sound like he was considered a criminal.
Shooting fleeing suspects in the back when they are outside your home may bring about criminal prosecution, but it's up to a judge and jury if there was immediate threat at the time.
Of course the normal Facebook user doesn't pay anything. They are the product not the customer. Facebook's customers are all the companies that advertise on it, or buy people's private data.
Flash gives me about 60fps, where canvas was staying right around 90fps with an occasional drop to 75fps, though Flash also did have some slow spikes. This is on Firefox 11 with the on CPU Intel graphics on a mobile i7.
My Atom boxes running XBMC can access both Amazon instant watch, and Hulu content just fine. I can't access Netflix as I am running Linux and Silverlight doesn't exist on that. But if I actually used Netflix I have a PS3 or Google TV I could stream to.
Outside of Netflix XBMC will pretty much stream everything. The nice thing about the Hulu plugin is that you don't need Hulu Plus, and if you have Plus all of those shows that won't let you stream to a TV will still play just fine.
If you are interested in either Amazon or Hulu, install Bluecop's repository. http://code.google.com/p/bluecop-xbmc-repo/downloads/list
Just download the repository zip to the root of a thumb drive, and plug it into your XBMC computer. Then select to install an add-on from a zip, and choose the file on the thumb drive.
Both Amazon and Hulu require an updated Flash library, so make sure you are running XBMC Eden, otherwise you'll have to manually update the library, and there really isn't a good reason not to update to Eden.
$400 is way to much for this kind of box when you have things like this Asus for $180. http://www.amazon.com/Asus-EB1012PB0320-Eb1012p-Fcbga559-Desktop/dp/B004X1PICM/ref=sr_1_3?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1333841714&sr=1-3
Atom Dual core D510 /w Nvidia ION. Add your own DDR2 RAM, and a small HDD or boot off a thumb drive. Then pick up a USB IR receiver for ~$15.
Install the XBMCbuntu or OpenELEC and your done. The mini keyboard with your box is handy, but outside of the initial configuration, I only every interface with a remote.
The only benefit to using a phone is that you have to enter a pin to enable the NFC chip so someone can't steal your phone and then start charging to it like they could a credit card.
I'm still not sure about using a phone though, I'd want some type of backup that doesn't rely on a battery. And it more resistant to drop damage.
You mean like a secured credit card that people with bad credit take out? As why are you worried about a stolen credit card unless you aren't in the US. In the US you are liable for a maximum of $50 and most/all credit card companies will waive that if your card is ever stolen.
Google wallet also allows you to pre paid an electric credit card so you can also do what you want on your phone if you have an NFC equipped android phone.
Try offline mode. I installed Steam on my wife's laptop and it automatically loads in offline mode and she can play any game other than online games that require Steam for multiplayer. This isn't much of an issue since she mainly sticks to single player puzzle games, I need to log into Steam once in a great while when it want's to reauthorize the account, but normally this isn't an issue since I'll have logged in to download a new game before that occurs. It's not the best solution, but it's worked just fine for two and a half years so far.
The problem with account sharing is that lots of people have a ton of games on Steam. And allowing multiple logins which negate a reason to buy games as you can just share an account with a friend. Offline mode is a nice compromise.
You really haven't used a game console in a while. For a PS3 and sometimes a Xbox 360 occasional usage is like this.
1) Start the console and what through the overly long boot animation
2) Wait for it to connect to the gaming network
3) Have it disconnect from the gaming network and tell you, your console needs an update and won't go online without it
4) Download the udpate, wait for it to install, and reboot your console
5) After the console starts back up launch the game, to have it tell you there is a required update for the game
6) Wait for the update to download and install
7) Finally play the game
This process is even worse if you are playing a game you haven't played before normally there is an automatic installation process you have to wait 10-15 minutes for. And that's after all of the updates it installs one by one.
We're already stuck, the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 are extremely outdated, and a five year old PC is more powerful than either of them. The upside is that you can still place games at a comfortable quality settings on a five year old PC.