Based on the user's browsing habits, certain web pages should be preloaded. With broadband connections, this wouldn't be too important, but for people on dial-up this could speed up the process of checking multiple web pages for news/content.
Unless you are one of these people (scammers), there is nothing to worry about here. This is actually a good thing; since Best Buy will lose less money this way, they get to pass the savings onto the legitimate customers.
If you don't do anything wrong, there is no need to worry about the punishment.
Using a real element added a bit of realism but also spawned this geek debate.
In real life, fusion usually (100% with significant figures) requires very small elements, like Hydrogen. That big flaming ball in the sky that you see everyday fuses Hydrogen to create Helium, the result is massive energy. Fusion has been attempted as a source of power here on Earth, but there is one problem: fusing Hydrogen requires incredible amounts of energy. Fusing a heavy element like Tritium would require an ungodly amount of energy.
I have a 2001 Toyota Prius with about 62,000. Over the last 3000 miles, I have gotten 41.8mpg. Like you said, short trips in the city with all the stoplights (and many hills in my town) drastically lower the numbers. Winter driving also lowers the numbers because the engine still runs for a while before it shuts off to keep the engine block warm; last winter, I got about 38mpg. Fall/Spring driving with no AC I get about 42-44. From what I have noticed, the first 5 minutes of each trip get around 30mpg, but it picks up after that. Highway driving is around 45-50mpg; gas mileage peaks at around 50mph of flat roads.
Also note that the topic is fuel economy; my 41.8mpg using basic fuel drastically beats somebody's 30mpg using premium.
I hate to respond to an AC, but I believe that I have to. While there are not widespread viruses or worms for Mac OS, there are security exploits (why else would apple issue security updates?). A good portion of these network killing attacks are security exploits, not viruses/worms.
My sister attended the University of Arkansas last year. The network was terrible, even with the required virus software installed. Automating the process is a great idea. The privacy concerns are a bit of a drawback, but an external harddrive with some basic encrytion would solve most people's fears. Although, to be fair, all Mac OS computers should have the same thing; Mac OS is NOT 100% secure (check apple.com for the Mac OS security updates.) This is a bit 1984/Big Brother-ish.
You are correct. The 128kbps AAC files that Apple sells are about equal in sound quality to a 160/192kbps MP3 file. The MP3 codec was designed to eliminate from the file certain music frequencies that the human ear CANNOT hear. People are always bitching about Ogg and how they like lossless formats, well here is a news flash, you cannot tell the difference between the Ogg and the same file encoded in MP3 on your 100$ speaker "system" or your 30$ headphones. Realistically, only a 3000$ Bose system or greater would show a clear difference. (In most cases, the player actually limits the audio quality more than the file, i.e. the analog audio out/headphone jack on your iPod/discman).
I doubt people will be too keen on the idea of using a government network to check email, IM, and surf the web. Also, not many people just carry their laptop with them in the car. Most drivers want to get to where they are going as fast as they can.
Go ask any Xbox fan to name off their top 5 Xbox games. Almost everybody will name Halo. Halo came out in 2001 and people still play it very frequently in 2004. Halo 2 will probably be more popular than Halo. If one of the biggest games for the Xbox (for many, the only selling point) will not work on the Xbox:Next, what reason do people have to purchase another system? This lack of compatability will end up hurting both the Xbox:Next and Halo 2.
Yeah, don't sign me up. I have a feeling that on Tuesday I will be reading a slashdot story titled something along the lines of "Spaceship explodes; one dead."
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Look at the advanced option of Firefox (.9). There is an option (selected on by default) that allows things to be installed from your browser..xpi files used for the Firefox extensions can also be used to install other less desired software.
All of that testing actually worked. Not one of the 32 Saturn V rockets ever exploded; this is amazing when you think of how there are literally millions of parts that could break and cause a critical failure. Wernher von Braun, who also helped with the German V2 rocket, truly was a genius.
The FCC needs to regulate the air waves. Given, they do go a bit far in some cases. What if they did not? Personally, I would not like to be driving down the road listening to some nice music on the radio only to have it interrupted by death metal or the sounds of porn. That 802.11a/b/g connection you are using would be a whole hell of a lot less secure and reliable if they did not regulate.
Blacklists do not work. People would be unwilling to give out their name when they buy a CD. There is this amazing thing in our country, innocent until proven guilty. We tried this with the communists. That sure worked.
1977 people still only represents a tiny fraction of p2p users. ~.049% of the p2p users (I assumed the low amount of 4million at any one time). Take the number of user to a resonable 15million and we get.013%. I guess free is still greater than cheap to many people.
No. Plain and simple, no. I once tried to fixed a computer for a friend. He "clicked" on the AOL icon, and claimed his computer was broken. And by clicked, I mean that he picked up the mouse and "clicked" it against the monitor. I was unable to help him due to the excessive laughter I was experiencing and still do when I think of that day.
The Top Albums are determined by the metascores. These metascores are an average of up to 30 reviews. A quick look at the #1 album shows reviews by: Entertainment Weekly, Amazon.com, Q Magazine, E! Online, and Rolling Stone. I would say that every single one of those sites are credible. Along with the big name sites, there are lesser known sites that rate the albums too.
Those rankings from The Onion and other 21 sources are just some of the Critic's Top Ten lists, not part of the Top Albums of 2003.
Metacritic.com compiles up to 30 reviews for a particular video game / movie / CD and averages the review score. Here are to true top albums of 2003 as rated by nearly everybody: http://metacritic.com/music/bests/2003.shtml
Note that the list does change as more reviews come in. This list actually has good music like The Shins or The Notwist.
4, yes 4, sweaters - I have one, which is enough 3 shirts - I have well too many as is pair of jeans - I have 4, more than plenty 2 pairs of khaki pants - I have 1 pair, the right amount pair of New Balance shoes - I already have a perfectly good pair Homer Simpson slippers - this gift actually didn't suck 200$ - I do love my horde of money.
Beh, at least I have plenty of food to eat (actually all the food at my house sucks), a place to sleep, and a car (2000 Toyota Prius, I love it!). It could be worse.
Competence? The court can look at the computer skill/intelligence of that individual and tell quite readily. No 80 year old grandma who can barely work AOL will have the 'skillz' to hack whitehouse.gov. A CS/EE major with lots of hacking programs on his computer would. Since the computer would be seized to evidence, they could look at the installed programs (mainly those executed frequently and readily accessible). The true problem comes when the hacker does the hacking using a removable disk drive or on a public computer.
Well, I guess I will have to get this now. What could be more seruce that a P2P service based in Outlook. Better yet, I could start using AOL and Windows 98 too! It will be good times.
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Based on the user's browsing habits, certain web pages should be preloaded. With broadband connections, this wouldn't be too important, but for people on dial-up this could speed up the process of checking multiple web pages for news/content.
This is probably a joke, but it cannot hurt to try. I replied.
Unless you are one of these people (scammers), there is nothing to worry about here. This is actually a good thing; since Best Buy will lose less money this way, they get to pass the savings onto the legitimate customers. If you don't do anything wrong, there is no need to worry about the punishment.
Using a real element added a bit of realism but also spawned this geek debate.
In real life, fusion usually (100% with significant figures) requires very small elements, like Hydrogen. That big flaming ball in the sky that you see everyday fuses Hydrogen to create Helium, the result is massive energy. Fusion has been attempted as a source of power here on Earth, but there is one problem: fusing Hydrogen requires incredible amounts of energy. Fusing a heavy element like Tritium would require an ungodly amount of energy.
I have a 2001 Toyota Prius with about 62,000. Over the last 3000 miles, I have gotten 41.8mpg. Like you said, short trips in the city with all the stoplights (and many hills in my town) drastically lower the numbers. Winter driving also lowers the numbers because the engine still runs for a while before it shuts off to keep the engine block warm; last winter, I got about 38mpg. Fall/Spring driving with no AC I get about 42-44. From what I have noticed, the first 5 minutes of each trip get around 30mpg, but it picks up after that. Highway driving is around 45-50mpg; gas mileage peaks at around 50mph of flat roads.
Also note that the topic is fuel economy; my 41.8mpg using basic fuel drastically beats somebody's 30mpg using premium.
I hate to respond to an AC, but I believe that I have to. While there are not widespread viruses or worms for Mac OS, there are security exploits (why else would apple issue security updates?). A good portion of these network killing attacks are security exploits, not viruses/worms.
My sister attended the University of Arkansas last year. The network was terrible, even with the required virus software installed. Automating the process is a great idea. The privacy concerns are a bit of a drawback, but an external harddrive with some basic encrytion would solve most people's fears. Although, to be fair, all Mac OS computers should have the same thing; Mac OS is NOT 100% secure (check apple.com for the Mac OS security updates.) This is a bit 1984/Big Brother-ish.
You are correct. The 128kbps AAC files that Apple sells are about equal in sound quality to a 160/192kbps MP3 file. The MP3 codec was designed to eliminate from the file certain music frequencies that the human ear CANNOT hear. People are always bitching about Ogg and how they like lossless formats, well here is a news flash, you cannot tell the difference between the Ogg and the same file encoded in MP3 on your 100$ speaker "system" or your 30$ headphones. Realistically, only a 3000$ Bose system or greater would show a clear difference. (In most cases, the player actually limits the audio quality more than the file, i.e. the analog audio out/headphone jack on your iPod/discman).
I doubt people will be too keen on the idea of using a government network to check email, IM, and surf the web. Also, not many people just carry their laptop with them in the car. Most drivers want to get to where they are going as fast as they can.
Go ask any Xbox fan to name off their top 5 Xbox games. Almost everybody will name Halo. Halo came out in 2001 and people still play it very frequently in 2004. Halo 2 will probably be more popular than Halo. If one of the biggest games for the Xbox (for many, the only selling point) will not work on the Xbox:Next, what reason do people have to purchase another system? This lack of compatability will end up hurting both the Xbox:Next and Halo 2.
Yeah, don't sign me up. I have a feeling that on Tuesday I will be reading a slashdot story titled something along the lines of "Spaceship explodes; one dead."
Look at the advanced option of Firefox (.9). There is an option (selected on by default) that allows things to be installed from your browser. .xpi files used for the Firefox extensions can also be used to install other less desired software.
All of that testing actually worked. Not one of the 32 Saturn V rockets ever exploded; this is amazing when you think of how there are literally millions of parts that could break and cause a critical failure. Wernher von Braun, who also helped with the German V2 rocket, truly was a genius.
The FCC needs to regulate the air waves. Given, they do go a bit far in some cases. What if they did not? Personally, I would not like to be driving down the road listening to some nice music on the radio only to have it interrupted by death metal or the sounds of porn. That 802.11a/b/g connection you are using would be a whole hell of a lot less secure and reliable if they did not regulate.
This sure does top the JB1 camera that ThinkGeek sells.
As per the "choice" footage and pictures, this has already happened with the new camera phones. Mobileasses.com or something to that order.
Blacklists do not work. People would be unwilling to give out their name when they buy a CD. There is this amazing thing in our country, innocent until proven guilty. We tried this with the communists. That sure worked.
Take the hint and unsubscribe them from the newsletter/mailing that they "opted" to receive. It is not too hard.
1977 people still only represents a tiny fraction of p2p users. ~.049% of the p2p users (I assumed the low amount of 4million at any one time). Take the number of user to a resonable 15million and we get .013%. I guess free is still greater than cheap to many people.
No. Plain and simple, no. I once tried to fixed a computer for a friend. He "clicked" on the AOL icon, and claimed his computer was broken. And by clicked, I mean that he picked up the mouse and "clicked" it against the monitor. I was unable to help him due to the excessive laughter I was experiencing and still do when I think of that day.
The Top Albums are determined by the metascores. These metascores are an average of up to 30 reviews. A quick look at the #1 album shows reviews by: Entertainment Weekly, Amazon.com, Q Magazine, E! Online, and Rolling Stone. I would say that every single one of those sites are credible. Along with the big name sites, there are lesser known sites that rate the albums too. Those rankings from The Onion and other 21 sources are just some of the Critic's Top Ten lists, not part of the Top Albums of 2003.
Metacritic.com compiles up to 30 reviews for a particular video game / movie / CD and averages the review score. Here are to true top albums of 2003 as rated by nearly everybody: http://metacritic.com/music/bests/2003.shtml
Note that the list does change as more reviews come in. This list actually has good music like The Shins or The Notwist.
Without doubt, the best game I have played all year is Call of Duty. Great game on so many levels.
4, yes 4, sweaters - I have one, which is enough
3 shirts - I have well too many as is
pair of jeans - I have 4, more than plenty
2 pairs of khaki pants - I have 1 pair, the right amount
pair of New Balance shoes - I already have a perfectly good pair
Homer Simpson slippers - this gift actually didn't suck
200$ - I do love my horde of money.
Beh, at least I have plenty of food to eat (actually all the food at my house sucks), a place to sleep, and a car (2000 Toyota Prius, I love it!). It could be worse.
Competence?
The court can look at the computer skill/intelligence of that individual and tell quite readily. No 80 year old grandma who can barely work AOL will have the 'skillz' to hack whitehouse.gov. A CS/EE major with lots of hacking programs on his computer would. Since the computer would be seized to evidence, they could look at the installed programs (mainly those executed frequently and readily accessible). The true problem comes when the hacker does the hacking using a removable disk drive or on a public computer.
Well, I guess I will have to get this now. What could be more seruce that a P2P service based in Outlook. Better yet, I could start using AOL and Windows 98 too! It will be good times.