For some reason.. I expected to find some more info on the car. But no, just arguing about who has the worst weather. Who cares? If you don't like your weather - move.
Very helpful indeed. I tried the trick but unfortunately I am forced to use the full version of acrobat so that I can edit PDFs (work purposes - not my choice) and disabling those plugins causes a series of errors and problems with the full version of the program. Why can't they make which plugins are loaded optional? If I open a PDF... they aren't, if I EDIT a PDF they are... but what am I thinking, efficiency? HA! Over half of the code loaded into memory from todays apps is never used.
I am aware that there is more useless crap on the internet than useful information. But the fact remains that there is enough useful information burried in the pile that it is worth my while to dig. There are obviously privacy protection concerns online, but they are being delt with by the same techs that use the internet and deal with those very concerns themselves. The internet for the most part is free public domain, and that is how it will stay. Government regulation of free data exchange is a horrible thought. The chocolate rations have not increased. We are not at war with Eurasia. Mr. Houlin Zhao can suck my balls. Freedom of speech will not be filtered.
I just wanted to add in that Firefox is not exclusively frowned upon in the corporate tech world. The users at the company I work for (fortune 500 healthcare - I'm a tech) are encouraged to use firefox instead of IE and it is readily available for installation on our network. Given we have a great IT team here...
I disagree. While backwards compatibility is a very consumer friendly way to gain sales, eventually all players will have to be upgraded anyway.
While higher capacities are needed for HD video (obviously) higher [b]density[/b] on discs is necessary to expand volume as well as dataflow. The higher the density of the volume the faster the potential maximum throughput.
HD-DVD will most likely do quite well because of all of the distributors backing it (and the promised inherent copyright protection) and a whole new set of players and burners will will be on the market backwards compatible or not.
Blu-Ray seems more promising in my eyes. With the increased density, discs will debut at large capacities and increase from there as multilayered formats arrive. Besides... with the PS3 using Blu-Ray I will most definately have a BR drive in my PC.
All in all I think a decent sized battle of funding and contracts will come forth and hopefully us consumers will see a bit of a downward price trend because of the saturation of the market.
IBM makes a great deal of their PC sales through business/government contracts in which X machines are purchased and supported for X number of years.
Their business image has faded in late and their contracts have migrated to other vendors. I provide hardware support within a large corporation. Our IBM contract was nixed a long time ago for Dell whom has served us much better.
My phone is on vibrate for at least 12 hours out of the day. The rest of the day, when it's set to ring, it plays an mp3 at a resonable volume if I don't pick up during the first 3 seconds of vibrate.
The worst ring-tone by far... humpback whales. I don't know why someone made that a ringtone but my best friend downloaded it because it sounds so horrible. Scares the bejesus out of me to this day...
I already have a 3Mb cable connection at home and enough T3s at work to keep me satisfied. The interest I would take would be in a public access wireless connection.
The information age is relying more and more on the internet for interconnectivity and we see broadband being meshed into more and more devices each year. I don't want local municipalities to try and compete with the big telcoms (they are already being paid off by them to retain their monopoly in my area). Why not offer wireless within the heart of the city as a public service? Heck I'd even pay $50/yr for it if the range was good enough. Wireless is the direction we're headed anyway so I really see this as inevitable.
I'm not going to use a wireless connection (wireless networking--yes) as my primary method of internet access but having bluetooth while I'm out and about in town (for my cell, pda, laptop or whatever) would be great. That is the direction they need to go in.
CFCs (depending on which one) stay in the atmosphere for anywhere from ~40 to ~200 years and take about a year to mix into the troposphere (closest 15km to the surface of the earth making up 90% of the atmospheres mass).
Strong UV rays break down CFCs into chlorine atoms (C1). C1 acts as a catalyst to destroy O3 (ozone) without being consumed itself. Thus 1 C1 atom can destroy about 100,000 O3 molecules. That is bad...
While anthropogenic and natural gases do add to the warming process, industrial polution caused by us delivers damage several fold worse.
I suppose we could call it chance... I call it apathy. Even though the EPA has regulations for polutants (particles per million for every flavor) over 90 million americans live in an area out of regulation.
Launching a missile at intercontinental distances, especially with any accuracy, is out of the question except for a very few countries. US/UK/Russia/France/maybe China in a few years. Shorter range (100-200 miles) is a different story.
And smuggling one into the country is quite another. How much of the drug trade from South America is intercepted? 10%?
That was the point I was making in my original post - just reworded.
And we're going to intercept it with what? The ABM system that isn't tested or built yet?
No we are going to know the warhead was launched just seconds after it's take off because of our sophisticated system of sattelites and monitoring systems, leaving us with plenty of time to launch our own missle to blow the nuke in mid-air.
I speak as someone with first hand knowledge of our sattelite capabilities and I'll just leave it at that;)
Simplistic nuclear balistic capabilities and advanced ICBM nuclear warheads are seperated by quite a large skill level in design and deployment.
My point being that I think they could get away with a small bomb, but if they were planning to launch one at us... KaBooooM right into the ocean. We have more sattelites than anyone:)
I don't really understand the arguments popping up about how this DRM broadcast flag will only be applied to digital or digitalHD signals. By 2006 all cable will be digital anyway.
DRM in and of itself is a joke. I can understand them wanting to slow copying and distrobution, but the idea that it's going to completely stop it, HA.
If you can encrypt something someone can decrypt it.
I don't think the problem is with people talking on cell phones. I think the problem is that people don't know how to concentrate and do more than one thing at a time.
The argument that you are actively involved in a phone conversation and pay less attention to driving is valid statistically I'm sure, but not a fair absolute assessment of human capability. Actively talking with a passenger or actively singing along with music or actively concentrating on something in your mind is just as much of a risk.
Driving with a cellphone disables you from using both hands (without a hands free system). Sure... well guess what? I drive a stick so typically I only have one hand on the wheel anyway and I guarantee I do a much better job with that one hand than many people do with both, or would do with three were the option available.
The majority of people that have accidents while on the phone are probably not good drivers to begin with. I don't trust most drivers regardless of what they're doing in their car. If people would learn to pay attention while driving there would be less accidents.
Everyone should be retested for their drivers license at age 65 (give or take). Yesterday I was at a complete stop at a redlight (where I had been sitting still for over 30 seconds) when the old man driving behind me, who was also at a complete stop, began inching closer and closer to my vehicle. He was watching the lane to the left of us inching forward and he began inching forward to follow suit even though our lane was NOT MOVING at all. I watched him in my rear view mirror not really concerned with getting tapped on the bumper at 1mph but curious as to what he would do. Well he kept inching forward until he bumped into me and then of course had a startled look on his face when he realized that he was not actually in the moving lane of traffic that he had been staring at but instead just accelerated into an essentially parked car.
Sure some old folks can drive just fine, and quite safely and cautiously at that. But the other group of elderly... who can't pay attention long enough to remember that they are standing in their lawn because they were on their way to check their mail... they should not be rear-ending me at a stop light.
Regardless of the fact that someone is old, drunk, on a cellphone or any combination of the three... if you can't safely drive a vehicle to begin with, I don't think it proves any point when you demonstrate that you can't drive while impaired.
As I've always said, if someone can put something together then someone else can take it apart. If something can be encrypted then it can be decrypted. If there are programmers protecting and disabling... there will be determined coders to decompile and enable.
Anything is possible.
When it comes down to it... which appendage can perform faster and more accurately than hand-eye coordination? Don't get me wrong I'm for VR goggles just as much as the next guy (as long as radition doesn't eat my brain) but as far as input goes... a controller in the hand is going to be the best option. You typed your post with your hands didn't you? If not... gross.
... I remember reading that the PS3 was debuting at the E3 this May... oh let's call it 4 months ago.
I'm glad the only portion of this 'article' that envolves an actual press release is several months old. Too bad the word isn't out anyway...
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For some reason.. I expected to find some more info on the car. But no, just arguing about who has the worst weather. Who cares? If you don't like your weather - move.
Very helpful indeed. I tried the trick but unfortunately I am forced to use the full version of acrobat so that I can edit PDFs (work purposes - not my choice) and disabling those plugins causes a series of errors and problems with the full version of the program. Why can't they make which plugins are loaded optional? If I open a PDF... they aren't, if I EDIT a PDF they are... but what am I thinking, efficiency? HA! Over half of the code loaded into memory from todays apps is never used.
High Five. ...time to brush up my resume
Which branch would hire someone interested in this kind of work?
I am aware that there is more useless crap on the internet than useful information. But the fact remains that there is enough useful information burried in the pile that it is worth my while to dig. There are obviously privacy protection concerns online, but they are being delt with by the same techs that use the internet and deal with those very concerns themselves. The internet for the most part is free public domain, and that is how it will stay. Government regulation of free data exchange is a horrible thought. The chocolate rations have not increased. We are not at war with Eurasia. Mr. Houlin Zhao can suck my balls. Freedom of speech will not be filtered.
Good grief.
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I just wanted to add in that Firefox is not exclusively frowned upon in the corporate tech world. The users at the company I work for (fortune 500 healthcare - I'm a tech) are encouraged to use firefox instead of IE and it is readily available for installation on our network. Given we have a great IT team here...
...You think a protocol that contributes a third of all internet traffic is being found useful? Hmmm... yeah I think so.
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While higher capacities are needed for HD video (obviously) higher [b]density[/b] on discs is necessary to expand volume as well as dataflow. The higher the density of the volume the faster the potential maximum throughput.
HD-DVD will most likely do quite well because of all of the distributors backing it (and the promised inherent copyright protection) and a whole new set of players and burners will will be on the market backwards compatible or not.
Blu-Ray seems more promising in my eyes. With the increased density, discs will debut at large capacities and increase from there as multilayered formats arrive. Besides... with the PS3 using Blu-Ray I will most definately have a BR drive in my PC.
All in all I think a decent sized battle of funding and contracts will come forth and hopefully us consumers will see a bit of a downward price trend because of the saturation of the market.
IBM makes a great deal of their PC sales through business/government contracts in which X machines are purchased and supported for X number of years.
Their business image has faded in late and their contracts have migrated to other vendors. I provide hardware support within a large corporation. Our IBM contract was nixed a long time ago for Dell whom has served us much better.
IBM... China can keep 'em
The worst ring-tone by far... humpback whales. I don't know why someone made that a ringtone but my best friend downloaded it because it sounds so horrible. Scares the bejesus out of me to this day...
The information age is relying more and more on the internet for interconnectivity and we see broadband being meshed into more and more devices each year. I don't want local municipalities to try and compete with the big telcoms (they are already being paid off by them to retain their monopoly in my area). Why not offer wireless within the heart of the city as a public service? Heck I'd even pay $50/yr for it if the range was good enough. Wireless is the direction we're headed anyway so I really see this as inevitable.
I'm not going to use a wireless connection (wireless networking--yes) as my primary method of internet access but having bluetooth while I'm out and about in town (for my cell, pda, laptop or whatever) would be great. That is the direction they need to go in.
Evidently several people here don't believe that we're responsible for it at all and are trying to argue against the 'flimsy evidense'.
Say humans aren't responsible, fine... we're still screwed.
Strong UV rays break down CFCs into chlorine atoms (C1). C1 acts as a catalyst to destroy O3 (ozone) without being consumed itself. Thus 1 C1 atom can destroy about 100,000 O3 molecules. That is bad...
While anthropogenic and natural gases do add to the warming process, industrial polution caused by us delivers damage several fold worse.
I suppose we could call it chance... I call it apathy. Even though the EPA has regulations for polutants (particles per million for every flavor) over 90 million americans live in an area out of regulation.
While I'm not mexican, I did just eat a chimichanga and expect to contribute here in a few minutes...
Somehow I don't think dolphins released tons of CFCs or added an extra protective layer of polutants to the atmosphere.
Yep, pretty sure we screwed it all up...
That was the point I was making in my original post - just reworded.
And we're going to intercept it with what? The ABM system that isn't tested or built yet?
No we are going to know the warhead was launched just seconds after it's take off because of our sophisticated system of sattelites and monitoring systems, leaving us with plenty of time to launch our own missle to blow the nuke in mid-air.
I speak as someone with first hand knowledge of our sattelite capabilities and I'll just leave it at that ;)
My point being that I think they could get away with a small bomb, but if they were planning to launch one at us... KaBooooM right into the ocean. We have more sattelites than anyone :)
hmmm
I don't really understand the arguments popping up about how this DRM broadcast flag will only be applied to digital or digitalHD signals. By 2006 all cable will be digital anyway. DRM in and of itself is a joke. I can understand them wanting to slow copying and distrobution, but the idea that it's going to completely stop it, HA. If you can encrypt something someone can decrypt it.
The argument that you are actively involved in a phone conversation and pay less attention to driving is valid statistically I'm sure, but not a fair absolute assessment of human capability. Actively talking with a passenger or actively singing along with music or actively concentrating on something in your mind is just as much of a risk.
Driving with a cellphone disables you from using both hands (without a hands free system). Sure... well guess what? I drive a stick so typically I only have one hand on the wheel anyway and I guarantee I do a much better job with that one hand than many people do with both, or would do with three were the option available.
The majority of people that have accidents while on the phone are probably not good drivers to begin with. I don't trust most drivers regardless of what they're doing in their car. If people would learn to pay attention while driving there would be less accidents.
Everyone should be retested for their drivers license at age 65 (give or take). Yesterday I was at a complete stop at a redlight (where I had been sitting still for over 30 seconds) when the old man driving behind me, who was also at a complete stop, began inching closer and closer to my vehicle. He was watching the lane to the left of us inching forward and he began inching forward to follow suit even though our lane was NOT MOVING at all. I watched him in my rear view mirror not really concerned with getting tapped on the bumper at 1mph but curious as to what he would do. Well he kept inching forward until he bumped into me and then of course had a startled look on his face when he realized that he was not actually in the moving lane of traffic that he had been staring at but instead just accelerated into an essentially parked car.
Sure some old folks can drive just fine, and quite safely and cautiously at that. But the other group of elderly... who can't pay attention long enough to remember that they are standing in their lawn because they were on their way to check their mail... they should not be rear-ending me at a stop light.
Regardless of the fact that someone is old, drunk, on a cellphone or any combination of the three... if you can't safely drive a vehicle to begin with, I don't think it proves any point when you demonstrate that you can't drive while impaired.
As I've always said, if someone can put something together then someone else can take it apart. If something can be encrypted then it can be decrypted. If there are programmers protecting and disabling... there will be determined coders to decompile and enable. Anything is possible.
Or... not. Just an idea... but maybe you shouldn't just pull stuff out of your ass to sound like you know something. PlayStation 3 chip will go easy on developers
When it comes down to it... which appendage can perform faster and more accurately than hand-eye coordination? Don't get me wrong I'm for VR goggles just as much as the next guy (as long as radition doesn't eat my brain) but as far as input goes... a controller in the hand is going to be the best option. You typed your post with your hands didn't you? If not... gross.
... I remember reading that the PS3 was debuting at the E3 this May... oh let's call it 4 months ago. I'm glad the only portion of this 'article' that envolves an actual press release is several months old. Too bad the word isn't out anyway... sheesh payAttention(news);