With your desert examples, it's worth noting that the cities in those areas are approaching situations where they will be dealing with water shortages, as the Colorado River is already being whittled down to a small stream by the time it leaves the States. There are only a couple of rivers in the SW that can support a major population right now, and they're all in use; you can pretty much count another Phoenix out of the picture in another decade or so.
Basically, yes. I think we can all agree that in the minds of the public, anything with *oogle in it on the internet must be related to Google, so Google has a vested interest in making sure no one uses that mindset to cause problems - and in American trademark law, that means everything must be protected.
For the record, I played JtL at LucasArt's latest press event; for all intents and purposes, any combat in space is space-sim style. You don't do anything RPG like, you simply pilot your ship and try to shoot things down. While there's nothing wrong with this (indeed, I like space sims), there's no way to properly comparecombat in JtL to SWG, they're simply not the same. For all intents and purposes, JtL is a space-sim built for SWG, it's not meant to be a new RPG combat area or anything like that.
However, as you're all aware, the videogame industry is now outpacing Hollywood, which means geeks are no longer the main target audience. Games have gone mainstream in a horrible way.
If you want any proof of this, check out Madden 2005. While at EA's "Hot Summer Night" press event, they noted that songs on video games get more spins than the TV or even the radio. There is now a lot of pressure to sign "the next big thing" for a game to both boost game sales, and album sales of "the next big thing". And major product placement is coming too; it's not here yet(what you see is more of cashing in on someone else's popularity), but we're near the point where game makers will be getting paid to include something as other industries are eclipsed. We're in for a massive change soon, and it's not all good.
I have a good quality Quicktime rip of that special. If anyone wants it, I'd be glad to upload it to an FTP, on the requirement that you BitTorrent seed it(I'd prefer to BitTorrent it myself, but the Uni has that blocked). Just drop a comment in my journal if you want it.
Not to mention it's taken nearly a season to get a guy that can win this much. Out of all the people that came before him this, the closest anyone got was 7 games. He's not just another 5-day winner to say the least.
My work "accident" comes from a day where we were having a slow afternoon, and I started work on the list of "things we'll eventually get around to." Apparently this list was pretty old, as the first item on it was a 486 that needed to be picked up from an office, and decommissioned(this was a government office).
Anyhow, I picked it up, noting that for a 486 in storage, the case was relatively clean. I then took it down to our workbench, and after spending half an hour trying to scrounge up an old DOS disk to boot it and reformat it with(we were a Mac shop, this was no easy task), I finally got ready to service it.
So, I plugged a cord in to a power strip, then move to plug the other end in to the power supply, when all of a sudden you hear that familiar zap sound. Sparks started flying from the power supply, and I did the whole "life flashes before my eyes" thing before I managed to pull the cable away, to quite a gruesome sight.
The total list of causalities included the power supply, who's prongs were all charred black, the power cord, the prongs on the cord(also charred black), and a totally fried power strip. Thankfully, my hand came out unscathed, although I don't know why.
Later examination of the now dead 486 showed that it had a power supply from 1982(this ordeal took place in 2002, BTW), so the fact that it was 20 years old probably had something to do with it. How such an old power supply ended up in a machine that couldn't be more than 13 years old I'll never figure out, but there it was.
I then proceeded to rip the hard drive out, and take a hammer to it. It was unorthodox, but I sure felt better afterwords.
Does it really matter how many channels there are? I mean, there's a fixed number of people in the world, but every channel means someone is spending more on content for it, driving up costs, since you can't really get more viewers than there already are. Variety is nice of course, but isn't 500 channels overdoing it? What do "TV executives" stand to gain from more channels?
If you read the NASA PDF, it notes that you need a certain amount of milliamps to fry the Zinc, so if there's any place where there's a low power device(1W, I'm thinking), then the Zinc would short the device, but it wouldn't get fried in the process, causing a permanent short.
It seems to work for a while, but how long before the spambot authors come up with a way around the port 25 block?
They can't, that the beauty of it. Standard SMTP servers listen on port 25, as defined in the RFC; with port 25 blocked, it's simply not possible for spam zombies to talk to normal SMTP servers, period.
Does it really matter what their motivation is though, as long as they're doing it? The fact of the matter is that this change benefits everyone, and that's what's important.
Is there anything stopping that though? Looking at the article, it's not like there's any sort of DVD region controls, so it seems to me that there's nothing stopping you from doing so.
That's free trade for you; Microsoft is free to decide who they want to sell to, what they want to sell, and how they want to sell it, all to maximize their profit margin(their goal as a business). You can't have control over Microsoft, and that kind of free trade at the same time.
What's to question? He goes to a school that has a highly restrictive network policy, and he wants to know what other schools do. Does it matter what his school is?
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Being inept can also be an issue. With Linksys's 802.11b wireless routers(the BEFW11S4 series), they only attempted to even implement WPA on the v4, and that implementation doesn't reliably work, even though it's entirely possible to get it reliably working on all 802.11b equipment. For a lot of these routers, just getting them to work well with the company-custom firmware is hard enough; for new features, they might as well let their chipset supplier(Broadcom, etc) take care of it, and roll the stuff in to a new chipset and its associated base firmware.
If you take a look at the actual test results for their power supply overview, you will see that the number of errors varies widely among the different power supplies. As such, I submit that the RAM itself, which was not being overclocked in any way, is perfectly fine, and otherwise there should have been more consistency among the errors.
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With your desert examples, it's worth noting that the cities in those areas are approaching situations where they will be dealing with water shortages, as the Colorado River is already being whittled down to a small stream by the time it leaves the States. There are only a couple of rivers in the SW that can support a major population right now, and they're all in use; you can pretty much count another Phoenix out of the picture in another decade or so.
Basically, yes. I think we can all agree that in the minds of the public, anything with *oogle in it on the internet must be related to Google, so Google has a vested interest in making sure no one uses that mindset to cause problems - and in American trademark law, that means everything must be protected.
No. I've seen a GT running in a 250W Shuttle SFF machine coupled with an Athlon XP. It can most certainly run on that kind of power.
For the record, I played JtL at LucasArt's latest press event; for all intents and purposes, any combat in space is space-sim style. You don't do anything RPG like, you simply pilot your ship and try to shoot things down. While there's nothing wrong with this (indeed, I like space sims), there's no way to properly comparecombat in JtL to SWG, they're simply not the same. For all intents and purposes, JtL is a space-sim built for SWG, it's not meant to be a new RPG combat area or anything like that.
However, as you're all aware, the videogame industry is now outpacing Hollywood, which means geeks are no longer the main target audience. Games have gone mainstream in a horrible way.
If you want any proof of this, check out Madden 2005. While at EA's "Hot Summer Night" press event, they noted that songs on video games get more spins than the TV or even the radio. There is now a lot of pressure to sign "the next big thing" for a game to both boost game sales, and album sales of "the next big thing". And major product placement is coming too; it's not here yet(what you see is more of cashing in on someone else's popularity), but we're near the point where game makers will be getting paid to include something as other industries are eclipsed. We're in for a massive change soon, and it's not all good.
I have a good quality Quicktime rip of that special. If anyone wants it, I'd be glad to upload it to an FTP, on the requirement that you BitTorrent seed it(I'd prefer to BitTorrent it myself, but the Uni has that blocked). Just drop a comment in my journal if you want it.
Not to mention it's taken nearly a season to get a guy that can win this much. Out of all the people that came before him this, the closest anyone got was 7 games. He's not just another 5-day winner to say the least.
My work "accident" comes from a day where we were having a slow afternoon, and I started work on the list of "things we'll eventually get around to." Apparently this list was pretty old, as the first item on it was a 486 that needed to be picked up from an office, and decommissioned(this was a government office).
Anyhow, I picked it up, noting that for a 486 in storage, the case was relatively clean. I then took it down to our workbench, and after spending half an hour trying to scrounge up an old DOS disk to boot it and reformat it with(we were a Mac shop, this was no easy task), I finally got ready to service it.
So, I plugged a cord in to a power strip, then move to plug the other end in to the power supply, when all of a sudden you hear that familiar zap sound. Sparks started flying from the power supply, and I did the whole "life flashes before my eyes" thing before I managed to pull the cable away, to quite a gruesome sight.
The total list of causalities included the power supply, who's prongs were all charred black, the power cord, the prongs on the cord(also charred black), and a totally fried power strip. Thankfully, my hand came out unscathed, although I don't know why.
Later examination of the now dead 486 showed that it had a power supply from 1982(this ordeal took place in 2002, BTW), so the fact that it was 20 years old probably had something to do with it. How such an old power supply ended up in a machine that couldn't be more than 13 years old I'll never figure out, but there it was.
I then proceeded to rip the hard drive out, and take a hammer to it. It was unorthodox, but I sure felt better afterwords.
Does it really matter how many channels there are? I mean, there's a fixed number of people in the world, but every channel means someone is spending more on content for it, driving up costs, since you can't really get more viewers than there already are. Variety is nice of course, but isn't 500 channels overdoing it? What do "TV executives" stand to gain from more channels?
If you read the NASA PDF, it notes that you need a certain amount of milliamps to fry the Zinc, so if there's any place where there's a low power device(1W, I'm thinking), then the Zinc would short the device, but it wouldn't get fried in the process, causing a permanent short.
It seems to work for a while, but how long before the spambot authors come up with a way around the port 25 block?
They can't, that the beauty of it. Standard SMTP servers listen on port 25, as defined in the RFC; with port 25 blocked, it's simply not possible for spam zombies to talk to normal SMTP servers, period.
Your users have to be able to receive multicast; try finding an ISP that will do that.
Does it really matter what their motivation is though, as long as they're doing it? The fact of the matter is that this change benefits everyone, and that's what's important.
What will happen when low-cost labor in China is combined with Microsoft technologies?"
Why, the phrase "Blue Screen Of Death" will take on a whole new meaning of course.
My 867mhz 12" PowerBook doesn't(it has a GeForce Go 420). =(
Is there anything stopping that though? Looking at the article, it's not like there's any sort of DVD region controls, so it seems to me that there's nothing stopping you from doing so.
And what's stopping you from just buying the Thailand version then?
That's free trade for you; Microsoft is free to decide who they want to sell to, what they want to sell, and how they want to sell it, all to maximize their profit margin(their goal as a business). You can't have control over Microsoft, and that kind of free trade at the same time.
What's to question? He goes to a school that has a highly restrictive network policy, and he wants to know what other schools do. Does it matter what his school is?
Being inept can also be an issue. With Linksys's 802.11b wireless routers(the BEFW11S4 series), they only attempted to even implement WPA on the v4, and that implementation doesn't reliably work, even though it's entirely possible to get it reliably working on all 802.11b equipment. For a lot of these routers, just getting them to work well with the company-custom firmware is hard enough; for new features, they might as well let their chipset supplier(Broadcom, etc) take care of it, and roll the stuff in to a new chipset and its associated base firmware.
If you take a look at the actual test results for their power supply overview, you will see that the number of errors varies widely among the different power supplies. As such, I submit that the RAM itself, which was not being overclocked in any way, is perfectly fine, and otherwise there should have been more consistency among the errors.
The Trillian guys have fixed it. You can grab the patches(Trillian Pro 2.013 & Trillian Basic Patch I) from the Trillian download page.
I know this is meant to be a joke, but Comdex doesn't really do Booth Babes; that's E3, and to a far lesser extent, Computex.
The profit is a product of the investment though; had he had a large investment, he would have seen large profits(in theory).
FYI, the SAP problem was fixed nearly a year ago.