According to this NetworkWorld article, the new bill sponsored by Democratic Representatives Ed Markey of Massachusetts, Jay Inslee of Washington state, Anna Eshoo of California and Rick Boucher of Virginia in the House and Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon in the Senate.
It has a verb, it's missing the word "is" in front of sponsored.
But smashing the window will make a lot of noise, set off any car alarms, and you won't be able to start the car. Plus it's obvious it's not your car if you're smashing the window. Someone just sitting against their car using a laptop isn't that suspicious at all, if anyone asks you're just waiting for your friend.
does it heck... they'll still be bored to tears...just petrified of missing one of the random tests... can you imagine driving along the highway minding your own business when software in the car does an awareness check on you by popping up an image of a kid running across the road??? well this is similar...
So your natural reaction to a child running across a highway while you're driving is boredom? I would be more alert after seeing that (even if it was just a test.) Ok that would probably cause an accident though (I'd swerve to miss the child, hit another car) but I'd deffinitely be more alert. And sure, if this happened all the time I wouldn't want to drive, but I would react much quicker (and better) if a child actually did run across the road.
Umm... back in the day when I had Windows 3.1 my computer booted up rather quickly. I had 4 megs of ram. Every task I wanted to do would load up very quickly (it was my blazing fast 66MHz 486 DX2!) Using a word processor was no problem (MS Works.) Then I bought 8MB of RAM and my computer was finally able to load games like Doom 2.
If you think I'm just remembering things being much better than they actually were, well a few months ago someone brought me a laptop that ran, you guessed it, Windows 3.1. He had a problem booting (he didn't know how to start windows, it just went into DOS.) I changed his autoexec.bat file to run windows when the computer started up. It ran just as fast as I remembered it. I've also had to install Windows 95 recently on a computer with 32MB of memory. That ran very, very quickly. I had to install software for an embroidery machine and I couldn't use a new computer cause then I'd need to buy new software for $2,000. The old software ran in DOS and the computer had Windows 3.1, I had to upgrade to Windows 95 because I couldn't find a copy of Windows 3.1 or a copy of DOS that was working. I wouldn't expect software that fit on a few floppies to need more than 128MB of RAM.
But what makes a wearable version any better? I understand a pair of glasses that have a HUD because they're always in your sight, plus they're hands free. This device doesn't make sense though because if you have to lift up your wrist to see the device anyway why not just go the extra 2" and take it out of your pocket? It does everything a PDA can do, plus you can't put it in your pocket cause it's too big, plus it's ugly, plus it's more expensive than a normal PDA and some duct tape, plus it doesn't even exist yet. It sounds like a dream gadget. I'd rather just attach a strap to a PDA and use that as a wrist device.
Why does it have to be wearable? I'd much rather have a PDA that doesn't attach to me wrist, fits nicely inside of it's case, which also fits nicely inside my pocket. When I want to use it, I take it out of my pocket and flip the case open. If I'm on a crowded subway, it's much less likely to get scratched or damaged, plus no one will see it and think "That guy has money, I should go mug him." I really can't see any practical use for a wearable PDA, at least if it wasn't so hideous I'd understand.
Even if you could do Quad SLI, would it make that much of a difference in performance? At what point would splitting the rendering task be more work than it's worth?
I don't know exactly what they mean but I guess the fabric comes in a block form that they might carve into a suit rather than a flat cloth that gets sewn.
I buy from local shops and NEVER call in with a problem. I put the defective product on the counter on a shopping day (thursday evening or a saturday) and speak loudly about how I want it repaired or replaced. Works wonders.
So what you're saying is that your local shop sucks, and the only way they'll fix anything is if you embarass them in front of other customers? Have you considered another shop?
I was at the tollbooths on the Staten Island side of the Verazzano Bridge, photographing someone on a motorcycle waving his E-ZPass aroud trying to get the thing to read. I never saw anything like that so I took a picture as I got up to the toll the police stopped me and threatened to fine me if I didn't delete the picture. It's been like that for as long as I can remember going over the bridge, dunno what the rules for at all. Also, I'm always afraid taking photographs at the ferry terminals. When they had the 100 year celebration, I had my camera with me but I was afraid to use it because I just assumed photography wasn't allowed. Eventually I started taking pictures, and just figured they had nothing posted about photography so it's allowed, or if I get in trouble I can tell them to put up some signs.
Really, the flaw in that logic is the idea that the Death Penalty has any measurable deterrent effect. It doesn't. If it did, that would indeed be a cause for great debate about the use of the practice, but in the real world most western states have either disposed with the practice or put severe limitations on it.
It does when taken to the extreme. If you issue the death penalty for ANY criminal act, there'd deffinitely be a lot less crime. There'd be less criminals because they'd all be dead, and before someone did some small crimes like shop lifting, they'd have to think "Do I want to die today?" The reason we don't do that is because, well it's just wrong. You don't want to kill everyone, you want to punish them so they stop, and the punishment should fit the crime.
The death penalty for a crime like murder might not have a measurable effect because the person commiting the act already knows their either going to be in jail for the rest of their life or die, I'd rather choose death (why would anyone want to stay in prison for the rest of their life?) But when it's a penalty for a lot more crimes it will deffinitely have a measurable effect.
Well you can remain anonymous. Just don't try to travel with commercial transportation. Nothing stopping you from walking the whole country with no ID at all. You can't stay at a hotel without a form of government issued ID, but you can always carry a tent and stay at campgrounds. You can ride your bike across country. You can take your car and unless the police pull you over, no one will ever see your ID or know who you are or where you're headed. The only time when your ID is checked and your destination is known is when you travel commercialy, but I think as a private company they have the right to ask you for your ID before letting you in their vehicles.
Because using an engine block as a portable grill is the same thing as an internet ready double oven that keeps your food refrigerated till you want it cooked.
This oven has a fridge as well but no internet, yet it costs under $2,000, and I'm sure it can't cost $6,000 to add the remote management. Also, who has internet in their kitchen? Ok, I know if you're rich enough to buy the oven, and are having a new house built, you'll most likely have network cables running through all the walls (even in the kitchen.) But how many people have that? For over $8000 (the cost of 5 or 6 regular double ovens, or that many refrigerated cooking ranges) you'd think the thing would be wireless.
Are you willing to prepare a dish in the morning and put it in the oven before you leave for work?
I prepare all of my food for the week on sunday, trying to bulk up and this is a good way to make sure I have enough food for the entire week while keeping track of what I ate. I'd like to be able to stick it in the oven before I leave and know it'll be ready when I get back.
Would you actually trust this thing not to burn down your house?
I trust my oven to not burn down my house, I trust my fridge to not burn down my house. Why wouldn't I trust an appliance that combines the two and lets me control it over the internet?
The real question, is the thing worth close to $10,000, and the answer (for me anyway) is no, not at all.
Yeah, because it makes no sense to play games on the kick-ass PC you just built and hooked up to your best TV / media distribution system. Probably better to put the games elsewhere.
I have an "old" computer, It's an AMD Athlon XP 3200+ with a gig of ram and a GeForce 6800, it can hardly play multiplayer Quake 4 with the lowest detail settings but it'd probably do it better than this guys system. I also have a 1U dual Xeon server next to me with 4 gigs of ram and two 160gig SATA drives. It'd destroy this guys computer in most benchmarks, but it's no gaming rig since it just has built in video. This guy has a great system for encoding videos, but with his video card being a GeForce 6600, and the dual core CPU (which most games won't take advantage of), the rigs not really designed for gaming.
And I installed XP Pro on a 4 gig partition, I have Photoshop, and Office both installed. You probably have a swap file on your drive taking up a gig or two, I moved mine over to another drive.
So if you drink a lot before you go to sleep, and you wake up drunk, the two effects cancel each other out. So drink heavily every night and you'll be fine!
1 In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.
2 And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.
Ok now in Mark chapter 16 -
2 And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun.
3 And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre?
4 And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away: for it was very great.
5 And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were affrighted.
Well that's odd. One book says the ground shook, an angel descended from heaven, moved the rock, and sat on top of it as the women got there, and another said the rock had already been moved and the angel was inside waiting for them. That's two different accounts of the same event. But the bible is god's word, how can it have two different accounts of the same event? Unless you'd like to say that the bible was written by man and is not the direct word of god. But then how do you know man didn't just add in anything that was just his opinion. How do you know the bible contains anything as written by god?
Ok, I read the summary, the links, and the comments. I still have no idea who Fripp is in relation to why I'd care that he's doing anything for Windows Vista. Is there some famous stuff he created that many nerds are familiar with?
I mean, you're looking for shows, right? There's no reason to look up numbers, after all if you're browsing through TV guide, you're looking up the station for the show you want to watch, and not the station itself!
But what if I just want to channel surf to see if there's anything on any channels that I don't currently know about that I might want to watch? Cable keeps adding more and more channels, I have a few hundred, and I like to browse every once in a while.
Why does everyone bring up the first amendment? This kid isn't being arrested for saying that stuff on his blog. If he was it'd be a different story. You have the right to tell your girlfriend she's a stupid bitch, but don't expect her to stay with you much longer. If you want an example with a private organization (just like the school is a private institution), you can be president of the NRA, but don't bitch if they kick you out for saying all guns should be banned in this country.
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According to this NetworkWorld article, the new bill sponsored by Democratic Representatives Ed Markey of Massachusetts, Jay Inslee of Washington state, Anna Eshoo of California and Rick Boucher of Virginia in the House and Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon in the Senate.
It has a verb, it's missing the word "is" in front of sponsored.
But smashing the window will make a lot of noise, set off any car alarms, and you won't be able to start the car. Plus it's obvious it's not your car if you're smashing the window. Someone just sitting against their car using a laptop isn't that suspicious at all, if anyone asks you're just waiting for your friend.
does it heck... they'll still be bored to tears...just petrified of missing one of the random tests... can you imagine driving along the highway minding your own business when software in the car does an awareness check on you by popping up an image of a kid running across the road??? well this is similar...
So your natural reaction to a child running across a highway while you're driving is boredom? I would be more alert after seeing that (even if it was just a test.) Ok that would probably cause an accident though (I'd swerve to miss the child, hit another car) but I'd deffinitely be more alert. And sure, if this happened all the time I wouldn't want to drive, but I would react much quicker (and better) if a child actually did run across the road.
Umm... back in the day when I had Windows 3.1 my computer booted up rather quickly. I had 4 megs of ram. Every task I wanted to do would load up very quickly (it was my blazing fast 66MHz 486 DX2!) Using a word processor was no problem (MS Works.) Then I bought 8MB of RAM and my computer was finally able to load games like Doom 2.
If you think I'm just remembering things being much better than they actually were, well a few months ago someone brought me a laptop that ran, you guessed it, Windows 3.1. He had a problem booting (he didn't know how to start windows, it just went into DOS.) I changed his autoexec.bat file to run windows when the computer started up. It ran just as fast as I remembered it. I've also had to install Windows 95 recently on a computer with 32MB of memory. That ran very, very quickly. I had to install software for an embroidery machine and I couldn't use a new computer cause then I'd need to buy new software for $2,000. The old software ran in DOS and the computer had Windows 3.1, I had to upgrade to Windows 95 because I couldn't find a copy of Windows 3.1 or a copy of DOS that was working. I wouldn't expect software that fit on a few floppies to need more than 128MB of RAM.
Isn't Einstein still correct? You just need to travel faster, or get better shielding against space radiation and you'll still age slower.
But what makes a wearable version any better? I understand a pair of glasses that have a HUD because they're always in your sight, plus they're hands free. This device doesn't make sense though because if you have to lift up your wrist to see the device anyway why not just go the extra 2" and take it out of your pocket? It does everything a PDA can do, plus you can't put it in your pocket cause it's too big, plus it's ugly, plus it's more expensive than a normal PDA and some duct tape, plus it doesn't even exist yet. It sounds like a dream gadget. I'd rather just attach a strap to a PDA and use that as a wrist device.
Why does it have to be wearable? I'd much rather have a PDA that doesn't attach to me wrist, fits nicely inside of it's case, which also fits nicely inside my pocket. When I want to use it, I take it out of my pocket and flip the case open. If I'm on a crowded subway, it's much less likely to get scratched or damaged, plus no one will see it and think "That guy has money, I should go mug him." I really can't see any practical use for a wearable PDA, at least if it wasn't so hideous I'd understand.
Even if you could do Quad SLI, would it make that much of a difference in performance? At what point would splitting the rendering task be more work than it's worth?
I don't know exactly what they mean but I guess the fabric comes in a block form that they might carve into a suit rather than a flat cloth that gets sewn.
I buy from local shops and NEVER call in with a problem. I put the defective product on the counter on a shopping day (thursday evening or a saturday) and speak loudly about how I want it repaired or replaced. Works wonders.
So what you're saying is that your local shop sucks, and the only way they'll fix anything is if you embarass them in front of other customers? Have you considered another shop?
I was at the tollbooths on the Staten Island side of the Verazzano Bridge, photographing someone on a motorcycle waving his E-ZPass aroud trying to get the thing to read. I never saw anything like that so I took a picture as I got up to the toll the police stopped me and threatened to fine me if I didn't delete the picture. It's been like that for as long as I can remember going over the bridge, dunno what the rules for at all. Also, I'm always afraid taking photographs at the ferry terminals. When they had the 100 year celebration, I had my camera with me but I was afraid to use it because I just assumed photography wasn't allowed. Eventually I started taking pictures, and just figured they had nothing posted about photography so it's allowed, or if I get in trouble I can tell them to put up some signs.
Really, the flaw in that logic is the idea that the Death Penalty has any measurable deterrent effect. It doesn't. If it did, that would indeed be a cause for great debate about the use of the practice, but in the real world most western states have either disposed with the practice or put severe limitations on it.
It does when taken to the extreme. If you issue the death penalty for ANY criminal act, there'd deffinitely be a lot less crime. There'd be less criminals because they'd all be dead, and before someone did some small crimes like shop lifting, they'd have to think "Do I want to die today?" The reason we don't do that is because, well it's just wrong. You don't want to kill everyone, you want to punish them so they stop, and the punishment should fit the crime.
The death penalty for a crime like murder might not have a measurable effect because the person commiting the act already knows their either going to be in jail for the rest of their life or die, I'd rather choose death (why would anyone want to stay in prison for the rest of their life?) But when it's a penalty for a lot more crimes it will deffinitely have a measurable effect.
Well you can remain anonymous. Just don't try to travel with commercial transportation. Nothing stopping you from walking the whole country with no ID at all. You can't stay at a hotel without a form of government issued ID, but you can always carry a tent and stay at campgrounds. You can ride your bike across country. You can take your car and unless the police pull you over, no one will ever see your ID or know who you are or where you're headed. The only time when your ID is checked and your destination is known is when you travel commercialy, but I think as a private company they have the right to ask you for your ID before letting you in their vehicles.
Because using an engine block as a portable grill is the same thing as an internet ready double oven that keeps your food refrigerated till you want it cooked.
This oven has a fridge as well but no internet, yet it costs under $2,000, and I'm sure it can't cost $6,000 to add the remote management. Also, who has internet in their kitchen? Ok, I know if you're rich enough to buy the oven, and are having a new house built, you'll most likely have network cables running through all the walls (even in the kitchen.) But how many people have that? For over $8000 (the cost of 5 or 6 regular double ovens, or that many refrigerated cooking ranges) you'd think the thing would be wireless.
When was the last time you used your oven?
Yesterday, made baked zitti.
Are you willing to prepare a dish in the morning and put it in the oven before you leave for work?
I prepare all of my food for the week on sunday, trying to bulk up and this is a good way to make sure I have enough food for the entire week while keeping track of what I ate. I'd like to be able to stick it in the oven before I leave and know it'll be ready when I get back.
Would you actually trust this thing not to burn down your house?
I trust my oven to not burn down my house, I trust my fridge to not burn down my house. Why wouldn't I trust an appliance that combines the two and lets me control it over the internet?
The real question, is the thing worth close to $10,000, and the answer (for me anyway) is no, not at all.
Yeah, because it makes no sense to play games on the kick-ass PC you just built and hooked up to your best TV / media distribution system. Probably better to put the games elsewhere.
I have an "old" computer, It's an AMD Athlon XP 3200+ with a gig of ram and a GeForce 6800, it can hardly play multiplayer Quake 4 with the lowest detail settings but it'd probably do it better than this guys system. I also have a 1U dual Xeon server next to me with 4 gigs of ram and two 160gig SATA drives. It'd destroy this guys computer in most benchmarks, but it's no gaming rig since it just has built in video. This guy has a great system for encoding videos, but with his video card being a GeForce 6600, and the dual core CPU (which most games won't take advantage of), the rigs not really designed for gaming.
And I installed XP Pro on a 4 gig partition, I have Photoshop, and Office both installed. You probably have a swap file on your drive taking up a gig or two, I moved mine over to another drive.
5, insightful, I think the moderators just woke up.
So if you drink a lot before you go to sleep, and you wake up drunk, the two effects cancel each other out. So drink heavily every night and you'll be fine!
Lets see, in Matthew chapter 28 -
1 In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre. 2 And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.
Ok now in Mark chapter 16 - 2 And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun. 3 And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre? 4 And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away: for it was very great. 5 And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were affrighted.
Well that's odd. One book says the ground shook, an angel descended from heaven, moved the rock, and sat on top of it as the women got there, and another said the rock had already been moved and the angel was inside waiting for them. That's two different accounts of the same event. But the bible is god's word, how can it have two different accounts of the same event? Unless you'd like to say that the bible was written by man and is not the direct word of god. But then how do you know man didn't just add in anything that was just his opinion. How do you know the bible contains anything as written by god?
...but did netcraft confirm it?
Ok, I read the summary, the links, and the comments. I still have no idea who Fripp is in relation to why I'd care that he's doing anything for Windows Vista. Is there some famous stuff he created that many nerds are familiar with?
I mean, you're looking for shows, right? There's no reason to look up numbers, after all if you're browsing through TV guide, you're looking up the station for the show you want to watch, and not the station itself!
But what if I just want to channel surf to see if there's anything on any channels that I don't currently know about that I might want to watch? Cable keeps adding more and more channels, I have a few hundred, and I like to browse every once in a while.
Why does everyone bring up the first amendment? This kid isn't being arrested for saying that stuff on his blog. If he was it'd be a different story. You have the right to tell your girlfriend she's a stupid bitch, but don't expect her to stay with you much longer. If you want an example with a private organization (just like the school is a private institution), you can be president of the NRA, but don't bitch if they kick you out for saying all guns should be banned in this country.