it isn't like UN sanctions mean anything. What are they going to do invade the United States? (Good Luck)
Now THERE'S an idea! With 99% of the USA's military out in Iraq, it will be a very soft target. We could replace the horribly corrupt regime currently in charge, reform the country into a democracy once again, and have another go at the corrupt legal system while we're at it.
Yep. It caters for the selfish, uncaring, xenophobic, moronic evil bit that lurks inside every person. It allows the people of America to secretly indulge their hate for just about anything - the outside world, rich people, poor people, black people, white people - under the veil of 'watching news'.
LOL, I agree to some extent that most of the horrible graphics are a waste of time. However the text 'echoed' on the screen from the actual presentation can be useful in backing up points to remember.
Improving the efficiency of the power plant doesn't magically improve the efficiency of your electrical car
That's exactly what it does. It means that your car gets more energy for the same amount of fuel used to generate that energy. And I'm not saying you shouldn't try to make improvements to elecrtic car engine efficiency, either. I'm just saying that it would move one half of the efficiency problem to the power plants, which are fewer in number, and able in some cases to generate electricity from *100% natural and unpolluting sources*. The number of plants where this is the case can really only increase. However this isn't practical for a car, because you can't put enough solar panels on a car to fully power its need for energy, or sit it next to the ocean to harness the power of the waves.
no more than a refinery improving its gasoline yield per barrel of oil makes my car get better gas mileage
Within every litre (gallon) of oil pumped out is contained a certain number of particles that can be converted to gasoline. It was my understanding that the refining process was pretty efficient and that most of the available gasoline was obtained. However, even if massive efficiency increases could be obtained by the refineries, the potential for totally unpolluting energy generation by gasoline doesn't exist. The potential for totally unpolluting electricity generation, however, does exist. *Anything* which can generate energy can generaty electricity; electricity is the 'currency' of energy, in my mind, used to bridge between different forms of generation and different forms of usage.
Long hauls, well, the bicycle does drop to a third the average speed of a car.
You maybe able to maintain a constant speed of ~25mph for a 50 mile journey on a bicycle, but the problem is that the majority of the population actually can't. Some people just aren't genetically programmed to be fit, others don't do enough excercise. They also don't like the idea of getting soaked to the bone when it's raining, or blown off the road when it's windy, etc...
Electronic cars - even ones you have to plug in every few hundred miles - may have their day, someday. But not yet. Not while oil is so cheap.
Actually, compared to electricity, oil's very expensive indeed. It's a shame this has been abandoned, because electricity generation benefits from both obvious economies of scale, and the fact that there are fewer generators than cars. If all cars became electric cars, you'd only have to upgrade the (relatively few) power stations to improve efficiency every time you found a better way of generating, rather than trying to persuade everyone in the population to change their car(s)!
I'm not sure about this, but I'm told that some smoothness is gained. When I played it (without the memory addon), I found it to have a *very* bad FPS, especially on scenes where there was a lot of scenery (try playing the one set in the jungle). At times it seemed like 5fps or something.
But users of UNIX-like OSes as a proportion of computer users has been on a steady plummet for decades. It may level out and maybe even recover, but who knows?
I might be missing something here, but isn't "lots of parallel connections" about as inconspicuous as an elephant amont kittens? I mean, if one IP has 50 connections which have been attributed a spam probability of 0.9, surely you could: a) permban the IP b) slow down ALL connections for that IP or c) just limit concurrent connections per IP to, say 1 or 2?
Why do people just call it 'Korea'? North and South Korea are very different? I thought South Korea was much richer than North, almost as rich as the USA.
Avril writes her own songs. At least the lyrics, you may be talking about the "music" part - but I don't think her stuff is so much about the music as the lyrics.
Ah, so that's why I never appreciated her melodies. She should have been classified a poet!
The biggest problem with Outlook (Express) that I have, and that remarkably few people seem to realise is a problem, is that it will automatically load any remote object embedded in an HTML e-mail. Sounds harmless until you realise that *just by previewing an HTML e-mail message*, you are allowing a spammer to know that your e-mail address exists. I'm sure this is happening to me, there is NO option to turn it off (except for the ingenious "go offline every time you read your e-mail" solution given to me by an IRCer), and because of this, I'm going to start using Pegasus Mail instead. They actually have programmers that have a clue.
I hope this doesn't get modded offtopic but.. oh well.
I think this decision by the FCC is really sad, and it's just the latest in a very long trend line i've seen from the USA recently.
We've yet to see a nation really fail because they were too capitalist. Well, as far as I can remember anyway. Hence capitalists always go on about how capitalism is better than communism because communist countries like the USSR have failed miserably whereas countries like the good old USA are doing great.
Well I think that argument may be on the verge of going to the sharks. You know, the *real* reason capitalist countries do well is because the have the right mix of free market capitalism and regulation, not ultra-capitalism. Capitalism can be just as shit as communism if you let it run its natural course.
I'm gonna make a prediction that the USA will become a *major* failure if things keep sliding the way that they are now. Total deregulation of nearly all industries, support for 'intellectual property' rights of enormous companies, and general all-round favouring of large corporations over the consumer is going to cause the power (wealth) to be shared between a very small number of people at the top in America, even more so than it is today, just like what happened in failed communist states.
Things could take a turn for the better, of course, but I don't see it happening. There is no effective way to get big business supporters out of government with the US's flawed voting system, there is no way to prevent them being bribed (lobbied), there is no way for people without power (wealth) to really effect change in America, apart from getting an enormous amount of people together to protest, which not only is difficult unless it's something really emotive (war) but also is usually ignored by the government ANYWAY (war).
The USA - the world's first ultra-capitalist state, and the first to fail because of it.
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Heh, yeah right, where'd ya read that crap? "Adam Smith's Utopian Universe"?
it isn't like UN sanctions mean anything. What are they going to do invade the United States? (Good Luck)
Now THERE'S an idea! With 99% of the USA's military out in Iraq, it will be a very soft target. We could replace the horribly corrupt regime currently in charge, reform the country into a democracy once again, and have another go at the corrupt legal system while we're at it.
Fox is #1 for a reason.
Yep. It caters for the selfish, uncaring, xenophobic, moronic evil bit that lurks inside every person. It allows the people of America to secretly indulge their hate for just about anything - the outside world, rich people, poor people, black people, white people - under the veil of 'watching news'.
How about "bankrupter software"?
LOL, I agree to some extent that most of the horrible graphics are a waste of time. However the text 'echoed' on the screen from the actual presentation can be useful in backing up points to remember.
Improving the efficiency of the power plant doesn't magically improve the efficiency of your electrical car
That's exactly what it does. It means that your car gets more energy for the same amount of fuel used to generate that energy. And I'm not saying you shouldn't try to make improvements to elecrtic car engine efficiency, either. I'm just saying that it would move one half of the efficiency problem to the power plants, which are fewer in number, and able in some cases to generate electricity from *100% natural and unpolluting sources*. The number of plants where this is the case can really only increase. However this isn't practical for a car, because you can't put enough solar panels on a car to fully power its need for energy, or sit it next to the ocean to harness the power of the waves.
no more than a refinery improving its gasoline yield per barrel of oil makes my car get better gas mileage
Within every litre (gallon) of oil pumped out is contained a certain number of particles that can be converted to gasoline. It was my understanding that the refining process was pretty efficient and that most of the available gasoline was obtained. However, even if massive efficiency increases could be obtained by the refineries, the potential for totally unpolluting energy generation by gasoline doesn't exist. The potential for totally unpolluting electricity generation, however, does exist. *Anything* which can generate energy can generaty electricity; electricity is the 'currency' of energy, in my mind, used to bridge between different forms of generation and different forms of usage.
Long hauls, well, the bicycle does drop to a third the average speed of a car.
You maybe able to maintain a constant speed of ~25mph for a 50 mile journey on a bicycle, but the problem is that the majority of the population actually can't. Some people just aren't genetically programmed to be fit, others don't do enough excercise. They also don't like the idea of getting soaked to the bone when it's raining, or blown off the road when it's windy, etc...
Electronic cars - even ones you have to plug in every few hundred miles - may have their day, someday. But not yet. Not while oil is so cheap.
Actually, compared to electricity, oil's very expensive indeed. It's a shame this has been abandoned, because electricity generation benefits from both obvious economies of scale, and the fact that there are fewer generators than cars. If all cars became electric cars, you'd only have to upgrade the (relatively few) power stations to improve efficiency every time you found a better way of generating, rather than trying to persuade everyone in the population to change their car(s)!
I would never expect anything I asked for verbally to be done.
Wow, you must *really* have relationship problems.
What is gained with it?
I'm not sure about this, but I'm told that some smoothness is gained. When I played it (without the memory addon), I found it to have a *very* bad FPS, especially on scenes where there was a lot of scenery (try playing the one set in the jungle). At times it seemed like 5fps or something.
Or, they won't. Ever played Goldeneye on the N64, with no memory expansion in? Most overhyped piece of shite i've ever seen.
But users of UNIX-like OSes as a proportion of computer users has been on a steady plummet for decades. It may level out and maybe even recover, but who knows?
I might be missing something here, but isn't "lots of parallel connections" about as inconspicuous as an elephant amont kittens? I mean, if one IP has 50 connections which have been attributed a spam probability of 0.9, surely you could:
a) permban the IP
b) slow down ALL connections for that IP or
c) just limit concurrent connections per IP to, say 1 or 2?
Why do people just call it 'Korea'? North and South Korea are very different? I thought South Korea was much richer than North, almost as rich as the USA.
It was joke you fucking MORON.
Of course I know it's not exactly realistic, it was meant for humor (ie. everyone is sueing everyone else for everything under the DMCA these days).
Get a clue and a sense of humor.
The predictions made in 1984 were right. George Orwell just got it a few decades out.
Yes there is.
3) Wait for someone to copy your hit.
4) Wait 5 years.
5) Sue for copyright violation under DMCA.
6) PROFIT!!
Avril writes her own songs. At least the lyrics, you may be talking about the "music" part - but I don't think her stuff is so much about the music as the lyrics.
Ah, so that's why I never appreciated her melodies. She should have been classified a poet!
Well, ok. But Outlook (Expres) still has shit rule-based mail filtering. It doesn't even allow wildcards!!
3 year's work experience at McDonald's.
The biggest problem with Outlook (Express) that I have, and that remarkably few people seem to realise is a problem, is that it will automatically load any remote object embedded in an HTML e-mail. Sounds harmless until you realise that *just by previewing an HTML e-mail message*, you are allowing a spammer to know that your e-mail address exists. I'm sure this is happening to me, there is NO option to turn it off (except for the ingenious "go offline every time you read your e-mail" solution given to me by an IRCer), and because of this, I'm going to start using Pegasus Mail instead. They actually have programmers that have a clue.
I hope this doesn't get modded offtopic but.. oh well.
I think this decision by the FCC is really sad, and it's just the latest in a very long trend line i've seen from the USA recently.
We've yet to see a nation really fail because they were too capitalist. Well, as far as I can remember anyway. Hence capitalists always go on about how capitalism is better than communism because communist countries like the USSR have failed miserably whereas countries like the good old USA are doing great.
Well I think that argument may be on the verge of going to the sharks. You know, the *real* reason capitalist countries do well is because the have the right mix of free market capitalism and regulation, not ultra-capitalism. Capitalism can be just as shit as communism if you let it run its natural course.
I'm gonna make a prediction that the USA will become a *major* failure if things keep sliding the way that they are now. Total deregulation of nearly all industries, support for 'intellectual property' rights of enormous companies, and general all-round favouring of large corporations over the consumer is going to cause the power (wealth) to be shared between a very small number of people at the top in America, even more so than it is today, just like what happened in failed communist states.
Things could take a turn for the better, of course, but I don't see it happening. There is no effective way to get big business supporters out of government with the US's flawed voting system, there is no way to prevent them being bribed (lobbied), there is no way for people without power (wealth) to really effect change in America, apart from getting an enormous amount of people together to protest, which not only is difficult unless it's something really emotive (war) but also is usually ignored by the government ANYWAY (war).
The USA - the world's first ultra-capitalist state, and the first to fail because of it.
I bet the latency's shitter than a 56k modem, probably +500ms added on just for using satellite. That would pretty much rule out online gaming.
This is anti-competitive, un-American and anti-capitalist.
Well what do you expect. It WAS thought up by a Republican.
I can actually work around the lack of water and electricity, but if there's no DSL I'm stuck.
:-)
And how would you work around the lack of electricity? Buy a wind-up computer and DSL modem?