So the lesson is, that if you can defend yourself, you won't be attacked. No wonder countries like Iran and Pakistan are working so hard to get WMD so they don't end up like Iraq.
Assuming she probably drives something common like a Toyota Corolla, the thief would probably skip her car and steal the identical one that doesn't have a club on it.
All the dog has to do is make a lot of noise and be annoying and the theives will just move onto the next house where there isn't any dogs to wake anybody up.
The problem with letting people vote for as many canidates as they want would be that nearly everyone would vote for the canidates in the middle, as both liberal and conservative voters would not see them as very offensive. This would effectively destroy the political parties as we know them, as they all would move towards the middle of the political spectrum. Every canidate running for office would be incredibly bland and boring as to not offend, hoping that the voter would think "Well, this guy's seems OK, I might as well vote for him too." I'm sure we would get politicians who run a campaign in the middle, then turn radical once they get into office (see: George W. "The Uniter" Bush), but a mostly moderate Congress would keep them in check, and come next election they would go down in flames.
Actually, now that I think about it, letting people vote for as many canidates as they want is a pretty good idea. Sure, it's not perfect, but it would be a huge improvement over what we have now.
Well then, for that matter has anyone managed to fry a TV set in Windows yet? Or even in Linux? ATI's drivers in Windows lets me flip between PAL and NTSC pretty easily for the TV out, and without a warning I might add. However, after reading the grandparent's post I'm too chicken to intentionally set it to the wrong setting just to see what happens.
Granted, it's been a few years since I read that book, but I recall liking it. Granted, it's not one of my favorite Sci-Fi books, or even my favorite Larry Niven book (that would probably be Integral Trees), but why do people pan Destiny's Road so much? Is it just that people put really high expectations on whatever Larry Niven writes?
It's my observation that for every good piece of anime, there are atleast 10 pieces that are utter dreck. But Japan produces SO much anime that there is no shortage of good anime to watch as long as you're patient enough to sort through it all (which I'm not, but each to their own). However, all the anime fanboys out there that seem to think that because it came from Japan, it must be good. They just need to take a step back, and realize that anime is much like American TV and Hollywood in some aspects - 90% or more of it is just plain trash.
From what I know of spammers, you'll probably recieve a CD with a giant.txt file of IP addresses burned on it. Likely 50% or more of them lacking a zombie on the other end too.
Apparently Jim and James are doing pretty well. Jim and James are also running a photo-blog site called Yafro which has to be costing a small fortune in bandwidth and hosting fees - yet is totally free and has almost no ads.
I have not noticed portable CD recorders to replace the audio recorders. Am I missing something?
I've actually seen a portable CD burner/player. Pretty big sucker (about the size of a regular CD drive for a 5.25" bay). Sucked down batteries like crazy too. Probably cost a small fortune too. Nowadays, many MP3 players can record audio and encode it on the fly to MP3. I can get several hours of on my flash MP3 player, and I imagine the HDD based ones can go for days or even weeks.
If I was designing a BIOS updater, I would have it copy the entire image off the floppy to RAM, do a check to make sure the image is OK, and then flash the actual chip. The fact that some updaters read straight from the floppy right to the BIOS chip is downright scary.
Most everyone who purchased the original iMac went out and purchased an external USB floppy drive as well. The problem was people didn't have a way to reliabley back up their documents since the original iMacs did not come with a CD-RW, but rather with a basic read-only CD drive.
And the worst thing was, after buying an expensive external USB floppy drive - they still didn't have a reliable way to backup data!
Download the appropiate DOS drivers, or find them on the HDD if you're lucky (mouse, CD, himem.sys is probably all you need). Copy them to a new directory. You might want to throw in deltree.exe into there too, along with smartdrv.exe and scandisk.exe. Make a config.sys and an autoexec.bat that load up the drivers. Reboot. Press F8 when it says "Starting Windows 98" and choose "Command prompt only". If you did it right, you should have a command prompt and access to the CD drive. Nuke C:\windows, and c:\program files. Insert Windows 98 install disk and run setup.exe.
The energy from the sun works out to about 1.4kW per square meter out where we are in the solar system. That's a respectable amount of energy, even considering the average American home probably averages about 1kW of continous power use. Now, the earth's radius is roughly 6370km. That means we have 3.141*(6370000m)^2 = 1.27E14 square meters facing the sun at all times (barring the occasional lunar eclipse). Which works out for a total of ~1.8E17 Watts, or 180,000 trillion Watts if you prefer.
That's a lot of power. To put this into perspective, consider the typical nuclear power plant puts out about 200mW. Dividing this out, the math says the sun is bombarding us with the output of 900 billion nuclear power plants continoutsly.
So the sun provides with more than plenty of energy. The key is to gather it, store, and distribute it. So far, we've relied mostly on mother nature to gather and store it for us (fossil fuels), but those are running out. However, if we can't effectively utilize a 180,000 trillion Watt fusion power source in the sky, maybe we should die out.
They are also cheap. Burn a few - carry one with you, put one under your desk, put on in the car. Heck, put one in the refridgerator if you feel like it. Chances are atleast one will survive.
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It sounds like you are operating a plane for a commercial airliner where you have a black box. What do you think of all those small, privately owned planes out there (Cessna's, etc.) that don't have a black box? Should they be required to carry one? Should all private planes have to carry a transponder for that matter? (I know you need a working transponder to fly near any decent sized metro area, but if you stay away from those areas you don't need one.) I realize that someone in a private plane expects they will be tracked via radar, but do they really need a black box reporting everything they do and say in the cockpit? I don't think so, and the same goes for privately owned automobiles.
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So the lesson is, that if you can defend yourself, you won't be attacked. No wonder countries like Iran and Pakistan are working so hard to get WMD so they don't end up like Iraq.
Assuming she probably drives something common like a Toyota Corolla, the thief would probably skip her car and steal the identical one that doesn't have a club on it.
All the dog has to do is make a lot of noise and be annoying and the theives will just move onto the next house where there isn't any dogs to wake anybody up.
Okay, I get XBox HD (High definition), and XBox 360 (360 degrees), but what does XBox 247 supposed to mean?
porn is so in right now. since there are so few jedi left it could their adventures in repopulating the jedi population across the galaxy
Finally, we'll get to find out just how Anakin Skywalker was concieved!
I would be afraid that it would turn out like Airplane 2. Better to leave the Spaceballs legacy alone I say.
That's funny... I just bought a used car and it had no sticker on it. Now I wonder!
The problem with letting people vote for as many canidates as they want would be that nearly everyone would vote for the canidates in the middle, as both liberal and conservative voters would not see them as very offensive. This would effectively destroy the political parties as we know them, as they all would move towards the middle of the political spectrum. Every canidate running for office would be incredibly bland and boring as to not offend, hoping that the voter would think "Well, this guy's seems OK, I might as well vote for him too." I'm sure we would get politicians who run a campaign in the middle, then turn radical once they get into office (see: George W. "The Uniter" Bush), but a mostly moderate Congress would keep them in check, and come next election they would go down in flames.
Actually, now that I think about it, letting people vote for as many canidates as they want is a pretty good idea. Sure, it's not perfect, but it would be a huge improvement over what we have now.
Well then, for that matter has anyone managed to fry a TV set in Windows yet? Or even in Linux? ATI's drivers in Windows lets me flip between PAL and NTSC pretty easily for the TV out, and without a warning I might add. However, after reading the grandparent's post I'm too chicken to intentionally set it to the wrong setting just to see what happens.
Granted, it's been a few years since I read that book, but I recall liking it. Granted, it's not one of my favorite Sci-Fi books, or even my favorite Larry Niven book (that would probably be Integral Trees), but why do people pan Destiny's Road so much? Is it just that people put really high expectations on whatever Larry Niven writes?
It's my observation that for every good piece of anime, there are atleast 10 pieces that are utter dreck. But Japan produces SO much anime that there is no shortage of good anime to watch as long as you're patient enough to sort through it all (which I'm not, but each to their own). However, all the anime fanboys out there that seem to think that because it came from Japan, it must be good. They just need to take a step back, and realize that anime is much like American TV and Hollywood in some aspects - 90% or more of it is just plain trash.
From what I know of spammers, you'll probably recieve a CD with a giant .txt file of IP addresses burned on it. Likely 50% or more of them lacking a zombie on the other end too.
Apparently Jim and James are doing pretty well. Jim and James are also running a photo-blog site called Yafro which has to be costing a small fortune in bandwidth and hosting fees - yet is totally free and has almost no ads.
I have not noticed portable CD recorders to replace the audio recorders. Am I missing something?
I've actually seen a portable CD burner/player. Pretty big sucker (about the size of a regular CD drive for a 5.25" bay). Sucked down batteries like crazy too. Probably cost a small fortune too. Nowadays, many MP3 players can record audio and encode it on the fly to MP3. I can get several hours of on my flash MP3 player, and I imagine the HDD based ones can go for days or even weeks.
If I was designing a BIOS updater, I would have it copy the entire image off the floppy to RAM, do a check to make sure the image is OK, and then flash the actual chip. The fact that some updaters read straight from the floppy right to the BIOS chip is downright scary.
Most everyone who purchased the original iMac went out and purchased an external USB floppy drive as well. The problem was people didn't have a way to reliabley back up their documents since the original iMacs did not come with a CD-RW, but rather with a basic read-only CD drive.
And the worst thing was, after buying an expensive external USB floppy drive - they still didn't have a reliable way to backup data!
Download the appropiate DOS drivers, or find them on the HDD if you're lucky (mouse, CD, himem.sys is probably all you need). Copy them to a new directory. You might want to throw in deltree.exe into there too, along with smartdrv.exe and scandisk.exe. Make a config.sys and an autoexec.bat that load up the drivers. Reboot. Press F8 when it says "Starting Windows 98" and choose "Command prompt only". If you did it right, you should have a command prompt and access to the CD drive. Nuke C:\windows, and c:\program files. Insert Windows 98 install disk and run setup.exe.
Your car is probably designed to go well over 100MPH. Why don't you go park it in a hurricane and see what happens?
The energy from the sun works out to about 1.4kW per square meter out where we are in the solar system. That's a respectable amount of energy, even considering the average American home probably averages about 1kW of continous power use. Now, the earth's radius is roughly 6370km. That means we have 3.141*(6370000m)^2 = 1.27E14 square meters facing the sun at all times (barring the occasional lunar eclipse). Which works out for a total of ~1.8E17 Watts, or 180,000 trillion Watts if you prefer.
That's a lot of power. To put this into perspective, consider the typical nuclear power plant puts out about 200mW. Dividing this out, the math says the sun is bombarding us with the output of 900 billion nuclear power plants continoutsly.
So the sun provides with more than plenty of energy. The key is to gather it, store, and distribute it. So far, we've relied mostly on mother nature to gather and store it for us (fossil fuels), but those are running out. However, if we can't effectively utilize a 180,000 trillion Watt fusion power source in the sky, maybe we should die out.
Try a different PCI slot?
It would probably take several hours to charge a dead car's battery that way. A big price to pay for convienence.
Yet Opera accounted for 2.5% of hits, and doesn't work with GMail. Pretty interesting stats, I'd say.
DVD-R's and CD-Rs are remarkably fragile.
They are also cheap. Burn a few - carry one with you, put one under your desk, put on in the car. Heck, put one in the refridgerator if you feel like it. Chances are atleast one will survive.
Well, I heard he bribed the judge...
It sounds like you are operating a plane for a commercial airliner where you have a black box. What do you think of all those small, privately owned planes out there (Cessna's, etc.) that don't have a black box? Should they be required to carry one? Should all private planes have to carry a transponder for that matter? (I know you need a working transponder to fly near any decent sized metro area, but if you stay away from those areas you don't need one.) I realize that someone in a private plane expects they will be tracked via radar, but do they really need a black box reporting everything they do and say in the cockpit? I don't think so, and the same goes for privately owned automobiles.