using hard drive math, then he has 4*900MB = 3600MB
Assuming 1024MB = 1TB (hard drive math), then you get 3600MB / 1024 = 3.51TB
This is even farther off the original statement of 3.8TB.
Come on people, if you lack the basic math skills to perform a simple computation like this one, then at least pull out a calculator. Everyone posting on slashdot has a calculator in the form of a computer, so there's no excuse for this kind of nonsence.
They already have double sided disks, with readers (and writers) that don't need the disk to be flipped. The read/write lasers focus the beam on the bottom layer for half the data, then focus through the disk to the top layer for the second half of data.
If you had bothered to RTFA, you would find out that it was, indeed, published on the 31st of March. Google is an American company. NYTimes is published in New York City. This is in the Eastern time zone. Google is in California, Pacific time, which is 3 hours behind Eastern. Thus, when it became April Fools Day in California, the day was already three hours old in new york. If Google had released the announcement at midnight local time, it would have been published at 3am eastern time. By the time an article could be written up, it would be even later. The fact that NY Times published it on the 31st indicates that it was probably released on the 31st.
It does claim to be free here. However, I still think it's legit. The news was released on march 31, and there are several pages of information on it, looks like they spent some time on this. 1GB looks a little far-fetched, but still within the realm of posibility. If it is a prank, it's a pretty good one.
the OP was somewhat overreacting. You still have to open up the email, so if you just delete messages that you think might be viruses then you are fine. I use Outlook express, and if I get a message I'm suspicious of, I right click on it, click Properties, and then view the message source. That gives me all the headers, the original sender, and the message in plaintext. I also turned off HTML, since no one I email sends HTML emails, so anything that comes in with HTML tags is pretty much either a virus or spam.
It's relatively simple to protect from this type of virus. A simple text only mail reader would go a long way in eliminating viruses. Of course, Microsoft insists on adding more and more "features" to their products. These features are intended to make the computing experience easier on the noob, but end up having the opposite effect. The amount of time it takes to recover from a major virus attack for a newbie is probably longer than it would take to learn a few tips to secure Outlook, or how long it would take to learn to use a different email client. Yet the stupid people still manage to continue to ruin things for the rest of us. Oh well. At least as long as there are people like that, the virus writers will continue to focus on easily fixed security holes in microsoft, rather than creating a Linux or Mac email virus (no idea how this could be done, but I have learned never to underestimate the power of a smart hacker with an ample supply of caffene).
I think that there is also some gender bending going on in many games already in existence. For example, as a male I generally use a female avatar in games like UT2K3. The female characters are usually smaller and more agile, plus it's a bit more humiliating for many people to be "beaten by a girl". I don't play MMORPG's, but I'm sure there's plenty of straight guys who play as females, and would then be more attracted to the other female characters played by females. I'm sure there's also females who use a male as their in-game avatar. This brings up the interesting situation where you have people engaging in online homosexuality without even realizing it.
Wow, that's the first time I've ever heard anything positive about Windows ME. I never installed it myself, but from trying to tinker around with my uncle's laptop with ME installed, it is a nightmare. It is appropriately named ME because the system takes up so many resources (Ze RAM, it belongs to MEEEEE! was a joke some friends of mine made while helping me fix the stupid laptop). with 64 MB of ram, it stil ran incredibly slow, and crashed numerous times. With so much memory being taken up by the system, multitasking was impossible. IT seemed there was some sort of memory leak, as we watched the system eat up more and more memory until it froze up. We finally gave up, had my uncle back up his documents and a few games, then reformatted and installed Win XP (he was a noob, so I didn't feel like forcing Linux on him), and the system ran 10x better.
some people say to aim a gun lower than where you want to hit because they instinctively flinch just before pulling the trigger. This flinch brings the barrel up slightly, and hopefully into the general vicinity of the target. However, a good marksman knows to control the flinch reaction, and thus aim exactly where they want their shot to go.
A Sniper (or anyone going for a long distance shot) adjust their sights so that the barrel of the gun is above the target to account for the fact that the bullet drops as it flies towards the target.
um, there are many people who have effects on the lives of many people, yet they are dead. For example, Edison's lightbulb has an effect on billions of people today, and he's been dead for a very long time.
That's all well and good if you have a good job earning $40 an hour. However, for those of us struggling through college, living on ramen noodles and walking or hitchhiking to class because we can't afford gas, then it's worth it to get that $20 back. I try to pinch every penny so that I can afford to feed my addiction to technology. Since I spend pretty much all the spending money I do get on technology related stuff (computer parts, games, etc.), if something doesn't work, then it's worth it to me to try to recover my money or get it replaced with something that does work.
You can't really get around the fact that a foil bag blocks all electric fields passing through it. It would act as a Faraday cage. Now IANAP, but if I recall from Physics class, the foil bag, as a conductor, acts as a sort of ground for all electic fields attempting to pass through it, so the charge from the filed ends up on the surface of the bag, so none penetrates into the center of the bag. Now of course a tin foil bag isn't a perfect conductor, so it will let a little bit of the electric field through, but with a fairly highly conductive bag you could cut the electric field down significantly. Unless the readers use extremely high powered signals, they wouldn't get through. Plus, the tag doesn't transmit a very high power signal to begin with, so the signal will never get out.
And high powered rifle rounds pretty have one purpose: piercing armor and thick hides. Not may elephants here in america to hunt. Yet you can easily buy the rounds for guns whos only legitimate purpose could be to shoot large game. It has nothing to do with utility, and everything to do with which lobby has more money. The NRA has lots of money to lobby congress in favor of allowing guns, and the MPAA has lots of money to lobby congress to pass laws banning DVD copying software. The problem is that we don't really have much of a lobby with congress. All we have are our votes. Most people don't bother to use their votes, then complain when the idiots who are elected into office pass laws they don't like. If you don't like the system, change it. Don't just sit there and complain about it.
Conceivably, RFID tags could be constantly tracked in store and raise a red flag to security if they disappear.
Not sure if that would do any good. Someone goes into a store and grabs something with an RFID, places it in their foil lined hidden inner pocket in their jacket, and walks out. When the item goes off the RFID master radar image, it maybe sets off an alert, so then someone has to physically walk to the shelf to see what happened. By then, the thief is long gone. Plus, they aren't exactly super high-power devices, I'm sure they occasionally don't hear the query or respond back in time, so you'd get lots of false alarms.
Most cell phones have dual mode, and can use analog and digital. At least, older ones like mine do. I'd imagine it would be pretty difficult to use an all digital cell phone as a modem.
It's pretty easy to set up your cell phone to have TiVo call through it. Just get an adaptor for your cell phone. I've seen adaptors that allow you to plug your cell phone into a laptop modem, and use it to dial up. Just plug the phone cord out from the TiVo and into the cell phone adaptor, then use that to make short calls to update your tv guide or whatever. Don't know if it would work for sure (never tried it myself), but it's worth a shot. My phone came with an adaptor that plugs into the mini jack I plug my earplug into, and has a standard phone jack on the other side. I'd imagine you could get such a device at radio shack or something.
My school doesn't have a true CS major, but I'm taking a Computer track within the EE major (sort of like an EECS that I've seen some other schools offer), and unfortunately, I'll graduate just before they start offering an assembly language course. Most everything else is C++ and Matlab.
Just throw everything you buy from Wal-Mart in the microwave for a few seconds. I'm sure the RF static from the microwave should be enough to fry any circuits in your clothes.
Um, sorry dude, but I think you got the wrong computer to play games on. Sure, many games are now being ported to the Mac, but most are pretty old (relatively speaking), and don't represent a wide variety like the full spectrum of games you can get on a Windows PC. Sure there are a few new games for the Mac, but not many. Fortunately, the ones that were ported were pretty big, like NWN, Halo, Quake3, etc. However, for cutting edge gaming performance, look at an Alienware gaming rig or something like that. I know it's not cool to advocate Windows, but when it comes to hard core PC gaming, it's sort of a must.
The problem is that there is not ZERO new business. He sent out 15 million emails advertising Iraqi most wanted playing cards, and generated 40,000 orders. That's a sucess rate of around.26%. This may be low, but it is something, with a profit of $151,800. So next time he sends out the email to 60 million people, hoping to generate 120,000 responses. At $5.06 profit per order, that would generate him $607,200. And that was just over the course of a week. With really small return rates, the spammer's goal is to send out the message to more and more people. So until the percentage of people responding to spam reaches zero, there will always be people willing to invest in it. And the amount of spam will increase as it nears the end, rather than a slow decline, as spammers desperately try to keep up profits by spamming more and more people to get the diminishing returns on their marketing.
I imagine them like loyd in Dumb and Dummer "What are the odds of me and you getting together?" "One in a million" "So you're saying there's a chance!"
(sorry if I butchered the quote, it's been a few years since I saw the movie)
Not likely. I've set up a spam trap account, and occasionally reply to the emails I get requesting to be removed from the lists, following up with emails to the accounts ISP's, and have yet to find a valid account. All the ones I've looked into come from bogus accounts. Don't know how they intend to make any money advertising "Vi@gra" or "pe-nis extentons" and no way of even getting back to the people advertising the product. The viagra ones at least mention the brand name, so that in case you are a complete retard you will find out what viagra is, but when I get a spam advertising some random, unknamed product which supposedly increases my breast size, and then no way to get said product, it's just stupid.
Um, you do realize that Russia had the first man in space, don't you? Up until the late 1960's, Russia was kicking US butt in the space race. They had the first man into space, first spacewalk (IIRC), and even earlier, first dog and chimp in space. It wasn't really until the Apollo missions that the US began taking the lead in the space race, as Russia began running out of money for a space program.
Since most people posting in this topic seem somewhat knowledgable about speakers, I was wondering if anyone had any experience building their own speakers? I'm taking a class in acoustics where we are building our own speakers from kits, but the instructor left us to find our own kit system to build. I'm looking to build two stereo speakers and a sub, just the drivers, I'll be building my own box and crossover. Any suggestions in the fairly cheapo range ($250 would be great) would be appreciated.
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using hard drive math, then he has 4*900MB = 3600MB
Assuming 1024MB = 1TB (hard drive math), then you get 3600MB / 1024 = 3.51TB
This is even farther off the original statement of 3.8TB.
Come on people, if you lack the basic math skills to perform a simple computation like this one, then at least pull out a calculator. Everyone posting on slashdot has a calculator in the form of a computer, so there's no excuse for this kind of nonsence.
Actually, your math sucks. Let me break this down for you.
4*900 = 900 + 900 + 900 + 900
900+900+900+900 = 1800+1800 = 3600
3600 != 3800
Therefore you are a retard who can't even do basic math
They already have double sided disks, with readers (and writers) that don't need the disk to be flipped. The read/write lasers focus the beam on the bottom layer for half the data, then focus through the disk to the top layer for the second half of data.
If you had bothered to RTFA, you would find out that it was, indeed, published on the 31st of March. Google is an American company. NYTimes is published in New York City. This is in the Eastern time zone. Google is in California, Pacific time, which is 3 hours behind Eastern. Thus, when it became April Fools Day in California, the day was already three hours old in new york. If Google had released the announcement at midnight local time, it would have been published at 3am eastern time. By the time an article could be written up, it would be even later. The fact that NY Times published it on the 31st indicates that it was probably released on the 31st.
It does claim to be free here. However, I still think it's legit. The news was released on march 31, and there are several pages of information on it, looks like they spent some time on this. 1GB looks a little far-fetched, but still within the realm of posibility. If it is a prank, it's a pretty good one.
the OP was somewhat overreacting. You still have to open up the email, so if you just delete messages that you think might be viruses then you are fine. I use Outlook express, and if I get a message I'm suspicious of, I right click on it, click Properties, and then view the message source. That gives me all the headers, the original sender, and the message in plaintext. I also turned off HTML, since no one I email sends HTML emails, so anything that comes in with HTML tags is pretty much either a virus or spam.
It's relatively simple to protect from this type of virus. A simple text only mail reader would go a long way in eliminating viruses. Of course, Microsoft insists on adding more and more "features" to their products. These features are intended to make the computing experience easier on the noob, but end up having the opposite effect. The amount of time it takes to recover from a major virus attack for a newbie is probably longer than it would take to learn a few tips to secure Outlook, or how long it would take to learn to use a different email client. Yet the stupid people still manage to continue to ruin things for the rest of us. Oh well. At least as long as there are people like that, the virus writers will continue to focus on easily fixed security holes in microsoft, rather than creating a Linux or Mac email virus (no idea how this could be done, but I have learned never to underestimate the power of a smart hacker with an ample supply of caffene).
I think that there is also some gender bending going on in many games already in existence. For example, as a male I generally use a female avatar in games like UT2K3. The female characters are usually smaller and more agile, plus it's a bit more humiliating for many people to be "beaten by a girl". I don't play MMORPG's, but I'm sure there's plenty of straight guys who play as females, and would then be more attracted to the other female characters played by females. I'm sure there's also females who use a male as their in-game avatar. This brings up the interesting situation where you have people engaging in online homosexuality without even realizing it.
Wow, that's the first time I've ever heard anything positive about Windows ME. I never installed it myself, but from trying to tinker around with my uncle's laptop with ME installed, it is a nightmare. It is appropriately named ME because the system takes up so many resources (Ze RAM, it belongs to MEEEEE! was a joke some friends of mine made while helping me fix the stupid laptop). with 64 MB of ram, it stil ran incredibly slow, and crashed numerous times. With so much memory being taken up by the system, multitasking was impossible. IT seemed there was some sort of memory leak, as we watched the system eat up more and more memory until it froze up. We finally gave up, had my uncle back up his documents and a few games, then reformatted and installed Win XP (he was a noob, so I didn't feel like forcing Linux on him), and the system ran 10x better.
some people say to aim a gun lower than where you want to hit because they instinctively flinch just before pulling the trigger. This flinch brings the barrel up slightly, and hopefully into the general vicinity of the target. However, a good marksman knows to control the flinch reaction, and thus aim exactly where they want their shot to go.
A Sniper (or anyone going for a long distance shot) adjust their sights so that the barrel of the gun is above the target to account for the fact that the bullet drops as it flies towards the target.
um, there are many people who have effects on the lives of many people, yet they are dead. For example, Edison's lightbulb has an effect on billions of people today, and he's been dead for a very long time.
The "Ice" caps at Mars' north and south poles consist mostly of frozen carbon dioxide, or "dry ice".
That's all well and good if you have a good job earning $40 an hour. However, for those of us struggling through college, living on ramen noodles and walking or hitchhiking to class because we can't afford gas, then it's worth it to get that $20 back. I try to pinch every penny so that I can afford to feed my addiction to technology. Since I spend pretty much all the spending money I do get on technology related stuff (computer parts, games, etc.), if something doesn't work, then it's worth it to me to try to recover my money or get it replaced with something that does work.
what's to keep people from putting the transmitter box in the bag and riding solo?
You can't really get around the fact that a foil bag blocks all electric fields passing through it. It would act as a Faraday cage. Now IANAP, but if I recall from Physics class, the foil bag, as a conductor, acts as a sort of ground for all electic fields attempting to pass through it, so the charge from the filed ends up on the surface of the bag, so none penetrates into the center of the bag. Now of course a tin foil bag isn't a perfect conductor, so it will let a little bit of the electric field through, but with a fairly highly conductive bag you could cut the electric field down significantly. Unless the readers use extremely high powered signals, they wouldn't get through. Plus, the tag doesn't transmit a very high power signal to begin with, so the signal will never get out.
And high powered rifle rounds pretty have one purpose: piercing armor and thick hides. Not may elephants here in america to hunt. Yet you can easily buy the rounds for guns whos only legitimate purpose could be to shoot large game. It has nothing to do with utility, and everything to do with which lobby has more money. The NRA has lots of money to lobby congress in favor of allowing guns, and the MPAA has lots of money to lobby congress to pass laws banning DVD copying software. The problem is that we don't really have much of a lobby with congress. All we have are our votes. Most people don't bother to use their votes, then complain when the idiots who are elected into office pass laws they don't like. If you don't like the system, change it. Don't just sit there and complain about it.
Conceivably, RFID tags could be constantly tracked in store and raise a red flag to security if they disappear.
Not sure if that would do any good. Someone goes into a store and grabs something with an RFID, places it in their foil lined hidden inner pocket in their jacket, and walks out. When the item goes off the RFID master radar image, it maybe sets off an alert, so then someone has to physically walk to the shelf to see what happened. By then, the thief is long gone. Plus, they aren't exactly super high-power devices, I'm sure they occasionally don't hear the query or respond back in time, so you'd get lots of false alarms.
Most cell phones have dual mode, and can use analog and digital. At least, older ones like mine do. I'd imagine it would be pretty difficult to use an all digital cell phone as a modem.
It's pretty easy to set up your cell phone to have TiVo call through it. Just get an adaptor for your cell phone. I've seen adaptors that allow you to plug your cell phone into a laptop modem, and use it to dial up. Just plug the phone cord out from the TiVo and into the cell phone adaptor, then use that to make short calls to update your tv guide or whatever. Don't know if it would work for sure (never tried it myself), but it's worth a shot. My phone came with an adaptor that plugs into the mini jack I plug my earplug into, and has a standard phone jack on the other side. I'd imagine you could get such a device at radio shack or something.
My school doesn't have a true CS major, but I'm taking a Computer track within the EE major (sort of like an EECS that I've seen some other schools offer), and unfortunately, I'll graduate just before they start offering an assembly language course. Most everything else is C++ and Matlab.
Just throw everything you buy from Wal-Mart in the microwave for a few seconds. I'm sure the RF static from the microwave should be enough to fry any circuits in your clothes.
Um, sorry dude, but I think you got the wrong computer to play games on. Sure, many games are now being ported to the Mac, but most are pretty old (relatively speaking), and don't represent a wide variety like the full spectrum of games you can get on a Windows PC. Sure there are a few new games for the Mac, but not many. Fortunately, the ones that were ported were pretty big, like NWN, Halo, Quake3, etc. However, for cutting edge gaming performance, look at an Alienware gaming rig or something like that. I know it's not cool to advocate Windows, but when it comes to hard core PC gaming, it's sort of a must.
The problem is that there is not ZERO new business. He sent out 15 million emails advertising Iraqi most wanted playing cards, and generated 40,000 orders. That's a sucess rate of around .26%. This may be low, but it is something, with a profit of $151,800. So next time he sends out the email to 60 million people, hoping to generate 120,000 responses. At $5.06 profit per order, that would generate him $607,200. And that was just over the course of a week. With really small return rates, the spammer's goal is to send out the message to more and more people. So until the percentage of people responding to spam reaches zero, there will always be people willing to invest in it. And the amount of spam will increase as it nears the end, rather than a slow decline, as spammers desperately try to keep up profits by spamming more and more people to get the diminishing returns on their marketing.
I imagine them like loyd in Dumb and Dummer "What are the odds of me and you getting together?"
"One in a million"
"So you're saying there's a chance!"
(sorry if I butchered the quote, it's been a few years since I saw the movie)
Not likely. I've set up a spam trap account, and occasionally reply to the emails I get requesting to be removed from the lists, following up with emails to the accounts ISP's, and have yet to find a valid account. All the ones I've looked into come from bogus accounts. Don't know how they intend to make any money advertising "Vi@gra" or "pe-nis extentons" and no way of even getting back to the people advertising the product. The viagra ones at least mention the brand name, so that in case you are a complete retard you will find out what viagra is, but when I get a spam advertising some random, unknamed product which supposedly increases my breast size, and then no way to get said product, it's just stupid.
Um, you do realize that Russia had the first man in space, don't you? Up until the late 1960's, Russia was kicking US butt in the space race. They had the first man into space, first spacewalk (IIRC), and even earlier, first dog and chimp in space. It wasn't really until the Apollo missions that the US began taking the lead in the space race, as Russia began running out of money for a space program.
Since most people posting in this topic seem somewhat knowledgable about speakers, I was wondering if anyone had any experience building their own speakers? I'm taking a class in acoustics where we are building our own speakers from kits, but the instructor left us to find our own kit system to build. I'm looking to build two stereo speakers and a sub, just the drivers, I'll be building my own box and crossover. Any suggestions in the fairly cheapo range ($250 would be great) would be appreciated.