I guess I really don't understand your question... and I really don't understand their statement either. 1% of what? They said the event would last about 15 minutes if it happened, so would that be 1% in a given 15 minute period of all 15 minute periods in the lifetime of the earth? 35040 such periods in a year, and Earth has around 5 billion years left before the Sun cooks it, so thats around 175.2 trillion 15 minute periods. So to me that means a chance of 1 in 17.5 quadrillion that we could get cooked via a gamma ray burst. Winning the powerball is around 1 in 146 million chance.
According to the show "Universe" which is showing on the History Channel now. If a gamma ray burst from a quasar hit the earth, it would boil off the ozone layer and basically kill the planet. I believe they said the likelyhood of that happening was 1% of the lifetime of the earth, whatever that really means. Was kind of a cool show, but had lots of the boogie man universe is gonna get ya. Kind of irritating actually.
Christ! This is Windows.. not a Mac. I don't send Windows or Mac users to RPM repositories for software. BTW, you are only the 49 billionth Mac user that has said something along these lines in this thread.
Walter/Wendy Carlos did the music for Tron. Same person that did the Beethoven electronica for Clockwork Orange. Definitely not a John Williams, But excellent in in his/her/it's own right.
"I understand that the early days of Steam, it was arcane to go offline, but things have changed a lot since then - it's improved tremendously." I can remember at a lan gaming event several years ago we had a ton of people that couldn't play HL2 because the internet connection the hotel blocked steam. That was all I needed to see to know I didn't want it. Maybe they fixed it, so maybe I should spend the $10 or $15 for HL2 and try it. I am glad I never spent $60 on it when it first came out though.
I have no idea if HL2 is any good, as I won't buy a game that won't run unless it checks in with the steaming mothership first. Yes, I realize that through some arcane procedure you can get it to run without connecting, but if you accidently forget to do that while online and then go offline you are SOL. I choose not to support such schemes buy not buying anything that uses steam. Kind of like not buying games that use starforce.
Pretty much the same here. Except I am her tech support, so I set up the machine and maintain it for her. The nice thing is that I bet her machine hasn't locked up or crashed more than a couple of times a year since I moved her to linux (from Windows 98se). She uses K-mail instead of thunderbird though.
I am not blind to the fact that the average user couldn't have as smooth an experience without a geek to back it up tough.
I realize I am not representitive, but I haven't seen Vista on anything but new machines at stores. We certainly don't plan on using Vista here at work in the next 2 years or so. Standard operating procedure here is format the disk and install the standard image, which doesn't include Vista.
The retards at Ubuntu still can't get partitioning right. I have been running Mandrake/Mandriva for years and have it installed now. I had a good experiance with Ubuntu at work with a blank hard disk and wanted to try it at home. I tried to install, but every time I get to partitioning, it was not been able to see my 3 linux partitions and one windows partition. Windows sees all of them even though it doesn't know what to do with them. Mandriva has Diskdrake which handles just about any partition known to linux. Going back 3 or 4 versions of Ubuntu, it was the same way. I keep downloading ISO's thinking they could finally get it right. Jeeze! all I want to do is save my home partition. BTW, I have plain old PATA drives.
I didn't buy Battlefield 2142 due to the in game ads. My son bought it though, but did so only after finding out it was trivial to block the advertisements. They playfields are littered with blank billboards now. BTW, I like the way BF2142 plays, but there are a lot less servers available than BF2. Judging from the scuttlebutt I have heard, it is due to paying $40 for a game that is full of ads. Targeted ads would be even more annoying.
My 2000 Saturn LS was rated at 24/32. I averaged 28 driving aggressively in mixed city/hiway commuting. Now with expensive gas, I have eased off, and now I average 31. Typical highway driving nets 34, but I have gotten as much at 39.
I think the main reason people get lousy mileage, is the way they drive. The EPA taking that into consideration makes a lot more sense, in my opinion.
I think one of the major reasons that old online games die, is that they get hacked and no one is maintaining code against the hacks. Unfortunately, that is happening right now with Battlefield 2. I would guess that fairly soon, you won't be able to connect to a server without at least half the people cheating on it.
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I guess I really don't understand your question... and I really don't understand their statement either. 1% of what? They said the event would last about 15 minutes if it happened, so would that be 1% in a given 15 minute period of all 15 minute periods in the lifetime of the earth? 35040 such periods in a year, and Earth has around 5 billion years left before the Sun cooks it, so thats around 175.2 trillion 15 minute periods. So to me that means a chance of 1 in 17.5 quadrillion that we could get cooked via a gamma ray burst. Winning the powerball is around 1 in 146 million chance.
According to the show "Universe" which is showing on the History Channel now. If a gamma ray burst from a quasar hit the earth, it would boil off the ozone layer and basically kill the planet. I believe they said the likelyhood of that happening was 1% of the lifetime of the earth, whatever that really means. Was kind of a cool show, but had lots of the boogie man universe is gonna get ya. Kind of irritating actually.
I can't remember who Ballroom Blitz was actually made famous by.
Sweet. Desolation Boulivard. Excellent old album that I bough on vinyl new. "Jesus I'm old!"
Christ! This is Windows.. not a Mac. I don't send Windows or Mac users to RPM repositories for software. BTW, you are only the 49 billionth Mac user that has said something along these lines in this thread.
Except none of the plugins work under windows, so as Safari currently stands, it is redundant and useless.
I am a Colbert, and I am having a fit as I type. Godless Killing Machine indeed!
Why not change your monitor even though the CRT still works fine.. Besides, if I got rid of my giant CRT, the cat would have no warm place to sleep.
hocus pocus by focus....
Unfortunately, my mod points just expired today. That is a putt-putt course I'd make a pilgrimage to.
Walter/Wendy Carlos did the music for Tron. Same person that did the Beethoven electronica for Clockwork Orange. Definitely not a John Williams, But excellent in in his/her/it's own right.
"I understand that the early days of Steam, it was arcane to go offline, but things have changed a lot since then - it's improved tremendously."
I can remember at a lan gaming event several years ago we had a ton of people that couldn't play HL2 because the internet connection the hotel blocked steam. That was all I needed to see to know I didn't want it. Maybe they fixed it, so maybe I should spend the $10 or $15 for HL2 and try it. I am glad I never spent $60 on it when it first came out though.
I have no idea if HL2 is any good, as I won't buy a game that won't run unless it checks in with the steaming mothership first. Yes, I realize that through some arcane procedure you can get it to run without connecting, but if you accidently forget to do that while online and then go offline you are SOL. I choose not to support such schemes buy not buying anything that uses steam. Kind of like not buying games that use starforce.
Pretty much the same here. Except I am her tech support, so I set up the machine and maintain it for her. The nice thing is that I bet her machine hasn't locked up or crashed more than a couple of times a year since I moved her to linux (from Windows 98se). She uses K-mail instead of thunderbird though.
I am not blind to the fact that the average user couldn't have as smooth an experience without a geek to back it up tough.
Thanks! I did not know that. All I play is Battlefield2/2142.
What is thunder bluff? I RTFA, but didn't see anything saying what it is. I'm guessing it's some sort of MMO?
It's the sound Carlos Mencia makes...
I realize I am not representitive, but I haven't seen Vista on anything but new machines at stores. We certainly don't plan on using Vista here at work in the next 2 years or so. Standard operating procedure here is format the disk and install the standard image, which doesn't include Vista.
The retards at Ubuntu still can't get partitioning right. I have been running Mandrake/Mandriva for years and have it installed now. I had a good experiance with Ubuntu at work with a blank hard disk and wanted to try it at home. I tried to install, but every time I get to partitioning, it was not been able to see my 3 linux partitions and one windows partition. Windows sees all of them even though it doesn't know what to do with them. Mandriva has Diskdrake which handles just about any partition known to linux. Going back 3 or 4 versions of Ubuntu, it was the same way. I keep downloading ISO's thinking they could finally get it right. Jeeze! all I want to do is save my home partition. BTW, I have plain old PATA drives.
I didn't buy Battlefield 2142 due to the in game ads. My son bought it though, but did so only after finding out it was trivial to block the advertisements. They playfields are littered with blank billboards now. BTW, I like the way BF2142 plays, but there are a lot less servers available than BF2. Judging from the scuttlebutt I have heard, it is due to paying $40 for a game that is full of ads. Targeted ads would be even more annoying.
Good thing they didn't include ratings for E85. Mileage would go down another 15% or so. Less energy in a gallon of alcohol vs gasoline.
My 2000 Saturn LS was rated at 24/32. I averaged 28 driving aggressively in mixed city/hiway commuting. Now with expensive gas, I have eased off, and now I average 31. Typical highway driving nets 34, but I have gotten as much at 39.
I think the main reason people get lousy mileage, is the way they drive. The EPA taking that into consideration makes a lot more sense, in my opinion.
I think one of the major reasons that old online games die, is that they get hacked and no one is maintaining code against the hacks. Unfortunately, that is happening right now with Battlefield 2. I would guess that fairly soon, you won't be able to connect to a server without at least half the people cheating on it.
Not quite sure why my post got modded troll. Off topic? Maybe..i en_characters_from_Futurama#Hyperchicken
It's a Futurama reference. Original New York, hence the pre. Hyperchicken is the Country Lawyer in the New New York world of Futurama. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recurring_al
New York Country Lawyer? Is that some sort of pre-hyperchicken?