Depleted uranium dust is only dangerous if inhaled or ingested, and the dust forms particles large and heavy enough that it settles out of the atmosphere quickly. This is just another example of environmentalist propaganda that isn't based on fact.
Who knows - spammers may also be sponsoring terrorism.
Re:MythTV setup not for the faint of heart
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Also note that you can use MythTV to transcode the programs recorded by the PVR-250 to remove commercial breaks from the file and to use a more efficient encoding, which reduces file size to well under a GB per half hour.
OTOH, marketers will realize that they can push PC development release dates a lot harder than they can for console games, which is better for the bottom line (money now is always better than the same amount of money later). Hurray for marketing!
To be brutally honest, that's as much your own fault as your friend's. The security options in IE are enough to prevent adcrap from being installed on your machine, and if you never use IE anyway, you can set the security options as strictly as possible with no negative effect for you.
Besides, you could also have told your friend to use Firefox or not to use your computer at all....
With VoIP services making inroads, and broadband becoming much more popular, perhaps he should have been asking whether your computer will be your next phone.
While still definitely expensive (about $1100 per credit hour, or $26.5k/year for undergrads), tuition at CWRU is substantially less than that at private institutions with more name recognition.
Actually, we have an OC12 to our service provider's PoP, with commodity Internet capped at 45Mb/s (usually pegged during the afternoons and evenings when the dorms are occupied) and (afaik) uncapped Internet 2 which usually sits around 18Mb/s.
Holy crap, since when is this news?!
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We've had fiber to the desktop since 1989!
As for that Yahoo award? Ray Neff, former IT director at CWRU (but now cursing Berkeley with his presence) was responsible for bringing ATM to the desktop in the mid-late '90s, which was widely regarded as a disaster. The Yahoo's most wired campus award? Well, the results of that were based solely on a survey submitted to Yahoo by each campus's IT director. Many of the answers that CWRU submitted on that survey were exaggerations, while others were simply untrue. Neff left the university around the same time that a University audit detected about half a million dollars in misplaced department funds, and while no guilt was ever placed or admitted, I'll let you connect the dots.
Since those "glory years", however, we've ditched ATM on the desktop, and better yet, we no longer have the world's largest flat-topology IP network (back in the day, a few people playing unpatched Doom 1 could bring the network to its knees due to the use of broadcast packets). Instead, we have gigabit over fiber, and Intel has ranked us the 4th most unwired campus as well.
Still, this is hardly *news* to anyone. It's been like this here for a long time.
Some other posters have already disagreed with you, so I'll do the same: I like nuclear energy.
France derives almost 80% of its electricity from nuclear power. The rest of its generation doesn't depend on the burning of coal, oil, or gas, so evidently their government feels that nuclear power is a suitable green solution.
The U.S. on the other hand generates about 20% of its electricity from nuclear plants and about 40% from coal-fired plants. The damage caused by sulfurous compounds released into the atmosphere from burning coal is well known, and most environmental activists are convinced that the process of burning coal contributes to greenhouse effect. On the other hand, the pollution generated by nuclear plants is entirely containable, and when contained, does not affect the environment at all. Great efforts have gone into ensuring that nuclear waste does not escape the containment and transportation vessels it is placed in, regardless of the situation. The extra generation provided by nuclear power will be necessary if we are ever to switch to fuel cell powered automobiles - building extra coal/gas/oil generation defeats the purpose of fuel cells.
Also, nuclear plants don't take up the *enormous* amount of space that wind or solar generation would require (a factor conveniently ignored by anti-nuclear activists).
There was an episode of Nova a while back called Descent into the Ice, which talked about a group of glacier explorers who were concerned about huge lakes of water forming inside glaciers.
Anyway, one of the people they talked to also did observation/research underneath a glacier. There had been tunnels dug through the mountain and up to the bottom of the glacier, and he set up a time lapse camera underneath the glacier.
It was one of the most amazing things I've ever seen. Ever.
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Depleted uranium dust is only dangerous if inhaled or ingested, and the dust forms particles large and heavy enough that it settles out of the atmosphere quickly. This is just another example of environmentalist propaganda that isn't based on fact.
(A little light reading on the subject)
Not only does it defend against RPGs fired by Islamic extremists, but it also works great against alien Nazis.
COBOL: Unsafe at Any Speed
And as long as you don't distribute it, you're still not doing anything illegal (yet).
Who knows - spammers may also be sponsoring terrorism.
Also note that you can use MythTV to transcode the programs recorded by the PVR-250 to remove commercial breaks from the file and to use a more efficient encoding, which reduces file size to well under a GB per half hour.
OTOH, marketers will realize that they can push PC development release dates a lot harder than they can for console games, which is better for the bottom line (money now is always better than the same amount of money later). Hurray for marketing!
Actually, they become retro once you can emulate them on current PC technology.
At this point, it doesn't really matter, because they're all going to screw us over with Trusted Computing soon enough.
and give them a chance to buy a cheap copy of XP.
There ain't no such animal.
Maybe you can use the backdoor password to upgrade the firmware remotely.
To be brutally honest, that's as much your own fault as your friend's. The security options in IE are enough to prevent adcrap from being installed on your machine, and if you never use IE anyway, you can set the security options as strictly as possible with no negative effect for you.
Besides, you could also have told your friend to use Firefox or not to use your computer at all....
I did, and I'm not sure what you're getting at. But I believe you should have that caps lock key looked at.
With VoIP services making inroads, and broadband becoming much more popular, perhaps he should have been asking whether your computer will be your next phone.
More specifically, Olde Fortran malt liquor.
Wireless.
While still definitely expensive (about $1100 per credit hour, or $26.5k/year for undergrads), tuition at CWRU is substantially less than that at private institutions with more name recognition.
MIT, for example, is $30.6k/year.
Or, it's better to spend the money 15 years ago and reap the benefits of fiber that whole time (which is what actually happened).
Actually, we have an OC12 to our service provider's PoP, with commodity Internet capped at 45Mb/s (usually pegged during the afternoons and evenings when the dorms are occupied) and (afaik) uncapped Internet 2 which usually sits around 18Mb/s.
We've had fiber to the desktop since 1989!
As for that Yahoo award? Ray Neff, former IT director at CWRU (but now cursing Berkeley with his presence) was responsible for bringing ATM to the desktop in the mid-late '90s, which was widely regarded as a disaster. The Yahoo's most wired campus award? Well, the results of that were based solely on a survey submitted to Yahoo by each campus's IT director. Many of the answers that CWRU submitted on that survey were exaggerations, while others were simply untrue. Neff left the university around the same time that a University audit detected about half a million dollars in misplaced department funds, and while no guilt was ever placed or admitted, I'll let you connect the dots.
Since those "glory years", however, we've ditched ATM on the desktop, and better yet, we no longer have the world's largest flat-topology IP network (back in the day, a few people playing unpatched Doom 1 could bring the network to its knees due to the use of broadcast packets). Instead, we have gigabit over fiber, and Intel has ranked us the 4th most unwired campus as well.
Still, this is hardly *news* to anyone. It's been like this here for a long time.
With a name like Phantom Dust, it pretty much had to be vaporware.
As far as I know, the most successful way to get your SO to accept that you're addicted to a game is to get her/him to play that same game, too.
If it really is a good game, s/he'll be hooked and may even end up playing more than you do.
When I first saw it, I thought they were talking about *this* Colossus.
Some other posters have already disagreed with you, so I'll do the same: I like nuclear energy.
France derives almost 80% of its electricity from nuclear power. The rest of its generation doesn't depend on the burning of coal, oil, or gas, so evidently their government feels that nuclear power is a suitable green solution.
The U.S. on the other hand generates about 20% of its electricity from nuclear plants and about 40% from coal-fired plants. The damage caused by sulfurous compounds released into the atmosphere from burning coal is well known, and most environmental activists are convinced that the process of burning coal contributes to greenhouse effect. On the other hand, the pollution generated by nuclear plants is entirely containable, and when contained, does not affect the environment at all. Great efforts have gone into ensuring that nuclear waste does not escape the containment and transportation vessels it is placed in, regardless of the situation. The extra generation provided by nuclear power will be necessary if we are ever to switch to fuel cell powered automobiles - building extra coal/gas/oil generation defeats the purpose of fuel cells.
Also, nuclear plants don't take up the *enormous* amount of space that wind or solar generation would require (a factor conveniently ignored by anti-nuclear activists).
There was an episode of Nova a while back called Descent into the Ice, which talked about a group of glacier explorers who were concerned about huge lakes of water forming inside glaciers.
Anyway, one of the people they talked to also did observation/research underneath a glacier. There had been tunnels dug through the mountain and up to the bottom of the glacier, and he set up a time lapse camera underneath the glacier.
It was one of the most amazing things I've ever seen. Ever.