I tried to recall how to make all the letters, upper and lower case in cursive, and I cannot recall them all. I think the only cursive I've used out side of grade school is when I have to sign my name.
Unless you take the radioactive waste and the occasional meltdown into account.
Of which the waste can be dealt with with current technology (pebble bed reactors), and only a single true melt down has occurred which also could be addressed with current tech and better procedures.
While I cannot speak on wind farms, I do see server farms as just that. Several of the data centers I've worked in are generally laid out in a farm like fashion, partitioned off into plots of land, each for its own purpose. That land is cultivated, in its own way, to allow for products or clients to grow and flourish. And it surely takes numerous hands to keep a server farm up and running happily.
I'd assume through loose bonds formed during growth. Maybe it grew up in a calmer area in a bay, and then it was knocked lose once it was a decent sized mass and it simply kept on growing.
With bandwidth caps and all, I'm sure their aren't many ISP's that would be happy with you even rsyncing 1TB of data. Then to do the same of your friend... tons of bandwidth. Changing any significant amount of data would take forever to update with most uploads speeds being capped very well under 1mbit. Even at 1mbit up, it would take around 11 or 12 days to sync 1TB. This setup doesn't work for even a tech savy home user. I suppose you could get a 2nd connection for your backup and just saturate that line for half the month and get it synced twice a month, that wouldn't be too bad. But the more we add to this the less plausible it is for a home user.
So Google is "personally responsible" for everything it indexes ?
Strangely enough, if you've followed TPB trial the IFPI basically said that Google is innocent of indexing illegal material if only because they give assistance to the IFPI.
S3 is such a nice feature. My wife never powers down her computer all the way any more, just suspends it to RAM, in seconds, and the boot up is just as fast.
That said, the last 2 motherboards I've used, while technically support S3, are unable to suspend without immediately waking up. I've done my homework on it and no matter what I do, it won't stay suspended (unplugged all USB and network cables, only had a monitor and ps/2 keyboard and it still doesn't suspend).
Does anyone know of any websites that have a list of motherboards that properly implement S3 mode?
I was one of those people using Comcast + Vonage. I had to drop Vonage after months of fighting with Comcast. Phone service was decent overall, but there were times when the phone would suffer latency on my downstream, where the person on the other end of the phone could hear me clearly, but I couldn't hear them as the voice would get all chopped up.
I could understand, maybe, if it was my upstream that was the problem (since I only get around ~50kb up compared to the 800kb down), or if I was saturating my bandwidth, or had a few dozen open connections, but these random occurances would happen even after rebooting my modem with no activity trying to come in or go out of my network aside from the usual port scans and the like that are always trickling in.
The only thing I could conclude was my neighborhood was abusing some bandwidth to the point it was causing enough latency to kill my VoIP, or that Comcast was causing the problem though who knows it was intentional or not. Comcast was no help, and Vonage just kept trying to give me another free month to get my to stay, but after a while it was no longer worth the effort.
In that case, try to hold your lunch in. Are you expecting our current 1 party government to actually have the insight and knowledge to make a decent law? Especially a law that protects the interest of the citizen and not business? That is the problem with law, especially American law with its case law and precedence. We keep hoping that the law will be just, yet most of all we get are half baked bandaid crap that in turn allows for even worse laws down the road thanks to precedence.
That all said, I do not have an answer for how to make good laws, as that would require our government to actually read, and comprehend what laws they pass... not just rubber stamping everything through. Until everyone that is passing these laws bother to read, how can we trust in the law?
Sure, it would be MUCH harder to slow down the asteroid and get it to play nicely in orbit around us. However I think the parent meant was if it was in orbit, and it had a few trillion $ worth of diamonds and helium 3, suddenly the cost of putting rockets up is just part of a business expense for our shiny new asteroid mining colony... I know it might as well be impossible with current tech (maybe slap a nice solar sail parachute on its butt and a rocket on the front end??? way to simple to work me thinks) but I'd love to see them try with another less potentially earth killing asteroid.
As for the space blanket. I never expected to find a use for one until one night out in the woods. I had just bought a new tent and was told it was water proofed and I didn't think twice about testing out out first to see if it was. My wife and I come to find out on our first night out on a hike that the seams were not water proofed at all and the seams actually acted like a gutter to funnel water inside our tent. With a few inches of water in the tent it quickly wiped out our clothes, and beding. If it wasn't for the space blanket I am not sure if my wife and I would have been able to stay alive due to the cold temps and nothing else able to hold heat.
I will always carry a space blanket with me whenever I am out in the woods and in my pack for disaster times.
Aye, I have done that a few times. Getting spam faxed to me always pushes my buttons the best. I have been known to fax back to the numbers listed my stack of printed RFCs. Always makes me feel better!
Aside from the fact that no one knows who they are talking to when you call up a company anymore. The quality of the product and the support everywhere just gets worse and worse as this goes on more and more since they are firing the people that actually know the product (you cannot teach years worth of experience on something with a few classes). Not only that but this type of practice leads to even worse work practices. You know that India knows what is going on and in order to be competitive they are going to make there workers put in much longer hours and possibly for less pay. This leads to big businesses getting bigger/richer and more people looking for jobs.
This is all about paying for a product and the big corps way of getting around paying there half of it. They can legally find ways to make a product at a cheaper cost, but then expect us to pay top dollar for it. But when a customer finds means of gaining a product cheaper likely it is going to be thru spending way to much time searching, or via illegal means, both should not be in todays world. If these large businesses only realized the global benifits of paying your employees more, and lowering the price of there products, this would do some great things, even for their business. It would be like some twisted mix of capitalistic communism (yes I realize they are very opposite, but I think it works out for this i think). The employees and the consumers would in the end be making more money, and the stuff they purchase would cost less, but this would allow them to put even more money back into the system. Since people would have more money, they could spend more money. The corps would be making less $$$ per item but the difference would be made up in the quantity. I realize this would not work out immediately in most 3rd world countries since they are likely not going to be buying lots of products from big corperations, but it would bring there countries up to higher levels of living and soon they would be LARGE contributing factors.
Something needs to happen about how business is being done because in the end it is hurting us all. I know government rarely interfers with business and wins, but they have in the past. I only hope some yet to be named congressmen or senator gets a clue and steps up to the plate and kicks big business around like Teddy Roosevelt did for the US (but hopefully they will be less war-hungery). I am not a big advocate of government but 'no one' else is capable of a job this size. Corps have the power to push anyone around, leech the economy to its very core, annailate the moral of its current employees, and the cash to pass any laws they want::cough:: DMCA::cough:: as well as stop any laws from being passed that greatly impacting there abilities to abuse everyone. All the while people are lined up out the door trying to get hired at these Corps since there is no place else that is hiring. It is damn near like modern day slavery.
God I hate big business, screw the employees and the customers so the company executives can buy a 3rd house during there 8 months of vacation time. ARGH!!!!
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I tried to recall how to make all the letters, upper and lower case in cursive, and I cannot recall them all. I think the only cursive I've used out side of grade school is when I have to sign my name.
Unless you take the radioactive waste and the occasional meltdown into account.
Of which the waste can be dealt with with current technology (pebble bed reactors), and only a single true melt down has occurred which also could be addressed with current tech and better procedures.
While I cannot speak on wind farms, I do see server farms as just that. Several of the data centers I've worked in are generally laid out in a farm like fashion, partitioned off into plots of land, each for its own purpose. That land is cultivated, in its own way, to allow for products or clients to grow and flourish. And it surely takes numerous hands to keep a server farm up and running happily.
I'd assume through loose bonds formed during growth. Maybe it grew up in a calmer area in a bay, and then it was knocked lose once it was a decent sized mass and it simply kept on growing.
Why do you need A/C at home? ... It only makes you ill.
Citation please.
Learn to love the Firefox add-on, Autopager. No more 9 page articles, just a nicely (generally) formatted single page.
With bandwidth caps and all, I'm sure their aren't many ISP's that would be happy with you even rsyncing 1TB of data. Then to do the same of your friend... tons of bandwidth. Changing any significant amount of data would take forever to update with most uploads speeds being capped very well under 1mbit. Even at 1mbit up, it would take around 11 or 12 days to sync 1TB. This setup doesn't work for even a tech savy home user. I suppose you could get a 2nd connection for your backup and just saturate that line for half the month and get it synced twice a month, that wouldn't be too bad. But the more we add to this the less plausible it is for a home user.
So Google is "personally responsible" for everything it indexes ?
Strangely enough, if you've followed TPB trial the IFPI basically said that Google is innocent of indexing illegal material if only because they give assistance to the IFPI.
S3 is such a nice feature. My wife never powers down her computer all the way any more, just suspends it to RAM, in seconds, and the boot up is just as fast. That said, the last 2 motherboards I've used, while technically support S3, are unable to suspend without immediately waking up. I've done my homework on it and no matter what I do, it won't stay suspended (unplugged all USB and network cables, only had a monitor and ps/2 keyboard and it still doesn't suspend). Does anyone know of any websites that have a list of motherboards that properly implement S3 mode?
I was one of those people using Comcast + Vonage. I had to drop Vonage after months of fighting with Comcast. Phone service was decent overall, but there were times when the phone would suffer latency on my downstream, where the person on the other end of the phone could hear me clearly, but I couldn't hear them as the voice would get all chopped up.
I could understand, maybe, if it was my upstream that was the problem (since I only get around ~50kb up compared to the 800kb down), or if I was saturating my bandwidth, or had a few dozen open connections, but these random occurances would happen even after rebooting my modem with no activity trying to come in or go out of my network aside from the usual port scans and the like that are always trickling in.
The only thing I could conclude was my neighborhood was abusing some bandwidth to the point it was causing enough latency to kill my VoIP, or that Comcast was causing the problem though who knows it was intentional or not. Comcast was no help, and Vonage just kept trying to give me another free month to get my to stay, but after a while it was no longer worth the effort.
One of my favorite sayings I heard when I was young was, "Even if the roads were paved with gold, people would complain about the glare."
In that case, try to hold your lunch in. Are you expecting our current 1 party government to actually have the insight and knowledge to make a decent law? Especially a law that protects the interest of the citizen and not business? That is the problem with law, especially American law with its case law and precedence. We keep hoping that the law will be just, yet most of all we get are half baked bandaid crap that in turn allows for even worse laws down the road thanks to precedence.
That all said, I do not have an answer for how to make good laws, as that would require our government to actually read, and comprehend what laws they pass... not just rubber stamping everything through. Until everyone that is passing these laws bother to read, how can we trust in the law?
Sure, it would be MUCH harder to slow down the asteroid and get it to play nicely in orbit around us. However I think the parent meant was if it was in orbit, and it had a few trillion $ worth of diamonds and helium 3, suddenly the cost of putting rockets up is just part of a business expense for our shiny new asteroid mining colony... I know it might as well be impossible with current tech (maybe slap a nice solar sail parachute on its butt and a rocket on the front end??? way to simple to work me thinks) but I'd love to see them try with another less potentially earth killing asteroid.
I'm thinking Die on Fire would work nicely.
As for the space blanket. I never expected to find a use for one until one night out in the woods. I had just bought a new tent and was told it was water proofed and I didn't think twice about testing out out first to see if it was. My wife and I come to find out on our first night out on a hike that the seams were not water proofed at all and the seams actually acted like a gutter to funnel water inside our tent. With a few inches of water in the tent it quickly wiped out our clothes, and beding. If it wasn't for the space blanket I am not sure if my wife and I would have been able to stay alive due to the cold temps and nothing else able to hold heat.
I will always carry a space blanket with me whenever I am out in the woods and in my pack for disaster times.
Aye, I have done that a few times. Getting spam faxed to me always pushes my buttons the best. I have been known to fax back to the numbers listed my stack of printed RFCs. Always makes me feel better!
Aside from the fact that no one knows who they are talking to when you call up a company anymore. The quality of the product and the support everywhere just gets worse and worse as this goes on more and more since they are firing the people that actually know the product (you cannot teach years worth of experience on something with a few classes). Not only that but this type of practice leads to even worse work practices. You know that India knows what is going on and in order to be competitive they are going to make there workers put in much longer hours and possibly for less pay. This leads to big businesses getting bigger/richer and more people looking for jobs.
::cough:: DMCA ::cough:: as well as stop any laws from being passed that greatly impacting there abilities to abuse everyone. All the while people are lined up out the door trying to get hired at these Corps since there is no place else that is hiring. It is damn near like modern day slavery.
This is all about paying for a product and the big corps way of getting around paying there half of it. They can legally find ways to make a product at a cheaper cost, but then expect us to pay top dollar for it. But when a customer finds means of gaining a product cheaper likely it is going to be thru spending way to much time searching, or via illegal means, both should not be in todays world. If these large businesses only realized the global benifits of paying your employees more, and lowering the price of there products, this would do some great things, even for their business. It would be like some twisted mix of capitalistic communism (yes I realize they are very opposite, but I think it works out for this i think). The employees and the consumers would in the end be making more money, and the stuff they purchase would cost less, but this would allow them to put even more money back into the system. Since people would have more money, they could spend more money. The corps would be making less $$$ per item but the difference would be made up in the quantity. I realize this would not work out immediately in most 3rd world countries since they are likely not going to be buying lots of products from big corperations, but it would bring there countries up to higher levels of living and soon they would be LARGE contributing factors.
Something needs to happen about how business is being done because in the end it is hurting us all. I know government rarely interfers with business and wins, but they have in the past. I only hope some yet to be named congressmen or senator gets a clue and steps up to the plate and kicks big business around like Teddy Roosevelt did for the US (but hopefully they will be less war-hungery). I am not a big advocate of government but 'no one' else is capable of a job this size. Corps have the power to push anyone around, leech the economy to its very core, annailate the moral of its current employees, and the cash to pass any laws they want
God I hate big business, screw the employees and the customers so the company executives can buy a 3rd house during there 8 months of vacation time. ARGH!!!!