No thank you, a vote for a minor party is a vote for a Republican.
That's based upon the idea that by voting third party, you gave up the chance to vote for the Democrat - hence heping the Republicans. I can use the exact same logic to claim a vote for the third party is a vote for the Democrats. In other words, the argument just doesn't make any sense. A vote for a thrid party is a vote for a third party. Any other vote (or simply not voting at all) is a vote for the same old bullshit.
Alternatively, those machines could simply not be on the internet, or firewalled off from Microsoft's servers. Unlike Vista, Windows XP will continue to work just fine (once activated) forever, even if you deny it access to the mothership.
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That's only fair if you knew back in 1984 that Apple was going to eventually discontinue the Apple II, with no compatible upgrade path. Realistically, the two lines had coexisted for a long time, and the writing on the wall really didn't appear until 1992 when Apple killed off the IIgs with no replacement. Only a year later, the IIe was discontinued leaving the Apple II crowd S.O.L., with only a 1-2 years or so to prepare, depending on how closely you were paying attention to what Apple was up to.
I can live with 1024x768 if it wasn't going to take up my entire desk at 20.8". Sadly, it seems that nowadays no one pays any attention to DPI and just looks at the size.
No, in a multiplayer game your actions do affect others. If you want to just get right into the action, then play a single player game and cheat to your heart's delight. Otherwise, if you don't want to play by the rules in a multiplayer game, then don't play at all. Simple as that.
Another thing to try if you have an old PC around (Pentium or better) is m0n0wall, which is a BSD based firewall that can be configured through a web interface much like other home routers, but still offers power features like traffic shaping - which I make plenty of use out of.
Every 17" LCD I have seen is built with a 5:4 ratio, so the 1280x1024 resolution is correct for your monitor. 17" (and 19") LCD screens are also the only screens that are built with a 5:4 ratio, which is why I consider them oddball because the aspect ration actually makes them even more squarish than other non-widescreens. 17" CRTs are built with a 4:3 ratio, hence the need for 1280x960 or you end up stretching the image horizontally.
Are you retarded or something? Go read TFA. To get this working you basically install the AppleTV's harddrive into an Intel Mac, reformat it, install 10.4.8, modify the installation, then put it back into the AppleTV. The OS that comes with the AppleTV has nothing to do with it.
He has a point, the Mini is pretty underpowered for the price. Of course, it's still a good deal for an ultra small computer, but if size doesn't matter as much you can get more power/storage/expandability for less money in the PC world. Most OEM computers nowadays are also pretty quiet too. The PC world has moved away from the P4/Athlon XP windtunnels of yesteryear.
[1] A modded Xbox doesn't count. Modders have been prosecuted in the United Kingdom and some other countries. Are you willing to include emigration in the price?
Well, to get your $300 OSX machine, you have to install a pirated version of OSX, and use a hacked kernel in possible violation of the EULA. So what's your problem with modding the XBox?
Exactly right, because all $200 Linux boxes have an HDMI as well as component audio and video ports, come with a remote, run silently, and fit in a shoebox. And please don't reply with a "I don't care about X" post to justify your pricing. That's just retarded.
Yeah, except a lot of that hardware doesn't even work. From TFA:
"... the resulting installation is unable to take advantage of all the Apple TV's hardware. Without video acceleration, games can't floor the graphic chip's throttle. There's no audio or ethernet support either, making the box useless for its original purpose as a media hub."
Perhaps it may some time in the future, but at this point the $200 Linux box is going to be more functional.
Huh? Cruise control can be found on cars with manual transmissions, and it's been that way for a long time (my old 1988 Nissan had it). The only small gotcha is that you can't change gears with the cruise conrol engaged, while the automatic car can, but that's not a big deal. Operation is the same: get the car up to speed, set the cruise and drive.
He said radio, not music in general. Say what you want about music, but in the past decade or so, radio has gotten far more annoying. More ads, a watermarks between any two songs in played in a row, heavy rotation of the same music (even on oldies stations), the death of local radio stations to generic mega-stations serving multiple markets that are run by large corporations, payola, etc.
The simple explaination is that they are counting hits, not computers. If there were 2 computers, one running Windows XP and one running Windows Vista, and the Vista one was used to surf the web twice as much as the XP computer, then Vista would show 66% market share and XP would show 33%, despite the actual share being 50:50.
Considering that many early adopters of Vista are the types of geeks that likely spend a lot of time using their computer and being on the internet, it's not surprising to me that sites would see disproportionately more Vista hits than could be explained by the number of computers.
In the same manner, there are also a lot more Windows 95/98 out there than these statistics suggest. It's just that almost all of these machines are very light use computers and don't register a lot of hits.
On the contrary, almost every Mac user I have come accross has already bought atleast 1 Intel Mac. Keep in mind these machines have been out for just over a year. Of course, for many of them, the PPC system(s) that were replaced are still kicking around somewhere, but for the time being it seems that when looking at people's primary computer, the typical PC is older than the typical Mac.
Every plug in play OS I have ever seen will automatically configure a USB keyboard for use automatically. So instead of a simple USB key, make it look like a USB key, but it presents itself to the computer as a keyboard, and starts sending down keystrokes. For example if I wanted to take down a Windows computer, I could have it do:
[windows key] + R cmd [enter] format c: [enter] y [enter]
Of course, I could have it do anything I want. A more clever hack would be to have it present itself as a USB hub with USB drive and a keyboad attached. The keyboard would not know where Windows mounts the USB drive, but it could send down keystrokes like
until it finds it. It would happen so fast that you'd be owned before you even realized what happened.
Of course, a more crude hack might be to put a couple of capacitors in the USB casing, and after a few seconds of charging up, the key sends a multi kV spike down the USB port and fries the computer.
While C02 is a greenhouse gas, I don't think it was such a big factor in previous warming cycles. Water vapor is a much more effective green house gas, and could likely be what drives those cycles, as it's also a positive feedback loop (hot humid air traps heat, which leads to more hot humid air). The corresponding CO2 levels probably has more to do with how life on the planet was changing and adapting as the climate changed.
Of course, while C02 possibly wasn't a huge driver of global warming in the past, that doesn't mean that humans can dump billions of tons of CO2 that has been out of the carbon cycle for millions of years into the environment, and hope to get away without changing the climate.
On the other hand, if we find out that the big solar mirror wasn't such a good idea, the mirror could be scrapped and things would go back to as they were before, minus the cost of deploying the mirror. Certainly something that would be a lot easier to undo than some of the other ideas I have heard thrown about.
Hmmm... here's a more interesting question. At what number of screens does productivity start to drop? I guess the answer will depend on what tasks you are doing but it would sure make an interesting study...
I found that if I really didn't have a use for the extra screens, they didn't cost me productivity, just desk space. I had quad head on my PC for a while, but found I almost never used the 4th monitor, so I eventually ditched it. I don't even use the third monitor half the time, but I would never give it up because it's great the other half of the time.
The 17" and 20" widescreen combination does work fairly well, but I must point out that 1280x1024 isn't really a standard format. It's actually a wierd 5:4 aspect ratio, and the only place I have ever seen a 5:4 aspect ratio is with 1280x1024 screens. 1280x1024 should really be 1280x960, which is a proper 4:3 ratio, and is the resolution CRTs should be set at so the image is not stretched.
I would just argue that it's not going to cost them anything. You've already got the monitor on your desk, so it's not like they have to run out and buy you one. Possession is 9/10's of it. Just act like it's supposed to be there, they may not even question it.
I don't know how good the monitor is. At my job, there are 17" CRTs laying around in various closets and back rooms, even some 19" and 20" if you look around enough. If want to use one, just go grab one. Every once and a while, they round up a bunch of them and recycle them. If the monitor gets put to use (or walks out the back door), they don't really care because it saves them however much it costs to dispose of the thing.
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No thank you, a vote for a minor party is a vote for a Republican.
That's based upon the idea that by voting third party, you gave up the chance to vote for the Democrat - hence heping the Republicans. I can use the exact same logic to claim a vote for the third party is a vote for the Democrats. In other words, the argument just doesn't make any sense. A vote for a thrid party is a vote for a third party. Any other vote (or simply not voting at all) is a vote for the same old bullshit.
Of course they had ties, they are middle easterners.. they all have ties as they are all the same at their core.
If you don't see that you are delusional, and dangerous.
By grouping people together like that, you are the one who is delusional and dangerous.
Alternatively, those machines could simply not be on the internet, or firewalled off from Microsoft's servers. Unlike Vista, Windows XP will continue to work just fine (once activated) forever, even if you deny it access to the mothership.
That's only fair if you knew back in 1984 that Apple was going to eventually discontinue the Apple II, with no compatible upgrade path. Realistically, the two lines had coexisted for a long time, and the writing on the wall really didn't appear until 1992 when Apple killed off the IIgs with no replacement. Only a year later, the IIe was discontinued leaving the Apple II crowd S.O.L., with only a 1-2 years or so to prepare, depending on how closely you were paying attention to what Apple was up to.
Can you show me any open source project where massive parallelism is being exploited? I'm not sure I can think of any.
BOINC?
I can live with 1024x768 if it wasn't going to take up my entire desk at 20.8". Sadly, it seems that nowadays no one pays any attention to DPI and just looks at the size.
A virus that kills its host before it has a chance to infect other computers is not going to spread very far.
No, in a multiplayer game your actions do affect others. If you want to just get right into the action, then play a single player game and cheat to your heart's delight. Otherwise, if you don't want to play by the rules in a multiplayer game, then don't play at all. Simple as that.
Another thing to try if you have an old PC around (Pentium or better) is m0n0wall, which is a BSD based firewall that can be configured through a web interface much like other home routers, but still offers power features like traffic shaping - which I make plenty of use out of.
Every 17" LCD I have seen is built with a 5:4 ratio, so the 1280x1024 resolution is correct for your monitor. 17" (and 19") LCD screens are also the only screens that are built with a 5:4 ratio, which is why I consider them oddball because the aspect ration actually makes them even more squarish than other non-widescreens. 17" CRTs are built with a 4:3 ratio, hence the need for 1280x960 or you end up stretching the image horizontally.
Are you retarded or something? Go read TFA. To get this working you basically install the AppleTV's harddrive into an Intel Mac, reformat it, install 10.4.8, modify the installation, then put it back into the AppleTV. The OS that comes with the AppleTV has nothing to do with it.
He has a point, the Mini is pretty underpowered for the price. Of course, it's still a good deal for an ultra small computer, but if size doesn't matter as much you can get more power/storage/expandability for less money in the PC world. Most OEM computers nowadays are also pretty quiet too. The PC world has moved away from the P4/Athlon XP windtunnels of yesteryear.
[1] A modded Xbox doesn't count. Modders have been prosecuted in the United Kingdom and some other countries. Are you willing to include emigration in the price?
Well, to get your $300 OSX machine, you have to install a pirated version of OSX, and use a hacked kernel in possible violation of the EULA. So what's your problem with modding the XBox?
Exactly right, because all $200 Linux boxes have an HDMI as well as component audio and video ports, come with a remote, run silently, and fit in a shoebox. And please don't reply with a "I don't care about X" post to justify your pricing. That's just retarded.
Yeah, except a lot of that hardware doesn't even work. From TFA:
"... the resulting installation is unable to take advantage of all the Apple TV's hardware. Without video acceleration, games can't floor the graphic chip's throttle. There's no audio or ethernet support either, making the box useless for its original purpose as a media hub."
Perhaps it may some time in the future, but at this point the $200 Linux box is going to be more functional.
Huh? Cruise control can be found on cars with manual transmissions, and it's been that way for a long time (my old 1988 Nissan had it). The only small gotcha is that you can't change gears with the cruise conrol engaged, while the automatic car can, but that's not a big deal. Operation is the same: get the car up to speed, set the cruise and drive.
He said radio, not music in general. Say what you want about music, but in the past decade or so, radio has gotten far more annoying. More ads, a watermarks between any two songs in played in a row, heavy rotation of the same music (even on oldies stations), the death of local radio stations to generic mega-stations serving multiple markets that are run by large corporations, payola, etc.
The simple explaination is that they are counting hits, not computers. If there were 2 computers, one running Windows XP and one running Windows Vista, and the Vista one was used to surf the web twice as much as the XP computer, then Vista would show 66% market share and XP would show 33%, despite the actual share being 50:50.
Considering that many early adopters of Vista are the types of geeks that likely spend a lot of time using their computer and being on the internet, it's not surprising to me that sites would see disproportionately more Vista hits than could be explained by the number of computers.
In the same manner, there are also a lot more Windows 95/98 out there than these statistics suggest. It's just that almost all of these machines are very light use computers and don't register a lot of hits.
On the contrary, almost every Mac user I have come accross has already bought atleast 1 Intel Mac. Keep in mind these machines have been out for just over a year. Of course, for many of them, the PPC system(s) that were replaced are still kicking around somewhere, but for the time being it seems that when looking at people's primary computer, the typical PC is older than the typical Mac.
Every plug in play OS I have ever seen will automatically configure a USB keyboard for use automatically. So instead of a simple USB key, make it look like a USB key, but it presents itself to the computer as a keyboard, and starts sending down keystrokes. For example if I wanted to take down a Windows computer, I could have it do:
...
[windows key] + R
cmd [enter]
format c: [enter]
y [enter]
Of course, I could have it do anything I want. A more clever hack would be to have it present itself as a USB hub with USB drive and a keyboad attached. The keyboard would not know where Windows mounts the USB drive, but it could send down keystrokes like
[windows key] + R
cmd [enter]
d:\virus.exe [enter]
e:\virus.exe [enter]
f:\virus.exe [enter]
until it finds it. It would happen so fast that you'd be owned before you even realized what happened.
Of course, a more crude hack might be to put a couple of capacitors in the USB casing, and after a few seconds of charging up, the key sends a multi kV spike down the USB port and fries the computer.
While C02 is a greenhouse gas, I don't think it was such a big factor in previous warming cycles. Water vapor is a much more effective green house gas, and could likely be what drives those cycles, as it's also a positive feedback loop (hot humid air traps heat, which leads to more hot humid air). The corresponding CO2 levels probably has more to do with how life on the planet was changing and adapting as the climate changed.
Of course, while C02 possibly wasn't a huge driver of global warming in the past, that doesn't mean that humans can dump billions of tons of CO2 that has been out of the carbon cycle for millions of years into the environment, and hope to get away without changing the climate.
On the other hand, if we find out that the big solar mirror wasn't such a good idea, the mirror could be scrapped and things would go back to as they were before, minus the cost of deploying the mirror. Certainly something that would be a lot easier to undo than some of the other ideas I have heard thrown about.
Hmmm... here's a more interesting question. At what number of screens does productivity start to drop? I guess the answer will depend on what tasks you are doing but it would sure make an interesting study...
I found that if I really didn't have a use for the extra screens, they didn't cost me productivity, just desk space. I had quad head on my PC for a while, but found I almost never used the 4th monitor, so I eventually ditched it. I don't even use the third monitor half the time, but I would never give it up because it's great the other half of the time.
The 17" and 20" widescreen combination does work fairly well, but I must point out that 1280x1024 isn't really a standard format. It's actually a wierd 5:4 aspect ratio, and the only place I have ever seen a 5:4 aspect ratio is with 1280x1024 screens. 1280x1024 should really be 1280x960, which is a proper 4:3 ratio, and is the resolution CRTs should be set at so the image is not stretched.
Exactly. If someone knows of a desktop monitor with 1600x1200 or greater resolution in something 17" or smaller, I would love to hear about it.
I would just argue that it's not going to cost them anything. You've already got the monitor on your desk, so it's not like they have to run out and buy you one. Possession is 9/10's of it. Just act like it's supposed to be there, they may not even question it.
I don't know how good the monitor is. At my job, there are 17" CRTs laying around in various closets and back rooms, even some 19" and 20" if you look around enough. If want to use one, just go grab one. Every once and a while, they round up a bunch of them and recycle them. If the monitor gets put to use (or walks out the back door), they don't really care because it saves them however much it costs to dispose of the thing.