The point is that Senator Al Gore has a brain of his own, and a very good one.
You've got to be kidding right!? Seriously, who in the hell takes this guy seriously when he makes statements about "We've got 10 years left on the enviroment". No sir, Gore has lost credibility with me. Then again, so have most/all other politicians out there too. So do us all a favor and put away your cowbell. We need less cheering and more critical thinking here on Slashdot.
Is there some ergot growing in our wheat supply nowadays that is causing people to lose their minds? Is it all that floride in the water? Cosmic rays? What the hell is going on?
That's a very good question. Just what the hell is going on? Well, I've been thinking about this social symptom of hysteria for quite some time (years actually) and I think I may have an answer
I would postulate the problem stems from social stress and the breakup of the plutonic family structure. I mean, sure we have a mother and/or father. What I'm talking about is the social bond with your family and relatives. Seriously, how many of you on Slashdot maintain those close ties to them and/or siblings. Hell, how many of you even have a "best friend" and not just some jokers you hang out with?
I'm being very serious. The social communal system has fractured big-time in western civilization. Honestly, I'm not sure if and when the pendulum will swing back the other way.
In Windows XP or in Windows Server 2003, you can change the write cache policy to optimize write performance for a disk device and for data safety. You can select either the Optimize for quick removal option or the Optimize for performance option in Device Manager. If the Optimize for performance option is selected, data that is written by an application is cached by the operation system, and lazy write is used for the cached data.
Basically, when its set to quick removal you have both read and writes in sync. When setup for performance, reads and writes are asyncronous. The later isn't problem unless you yank the data cable even if the drive is seams idle. In any event, just be sure to right-click over the removable device icon (located next to the clock) and select Safely Remove Hardware. You can also just double-click on it, and then press the Stop button. This ensures all pending "writes" are flushed back to disk as needed.
You couldn't be more wrong. In fact, I don't even know where to begin to correct you. But I will say this...
The Islamic Fundamentalist movement is all about establishing a global Islamic theocrocy. Anything other than what is governed in sharia law is hubris. Hubris (or any form there of) as preached in the Koran is the ultimate form of sin, often punishable by death to those in the extreme sect (Islamic Fundamentalists).
When you add it all up, it's very clear that Democrocy is seen as the ultimate sin. No man, woman, or child may govern themselves. All that is needed for governance is written in sharia law. Ergo, Islamic theocrocy.
That sounds nice and all, in theory. But I doubt anyone has ever recovered a file reading residual magnetic fields. Seriously! Just how DO you determain what group of bit/bytes belongs to what generation of residual fields? If you don't know what generation the bits are found on, then threading the data back togeather is meaningless. All you will get is random binary noise.
hackers for hire are not uncommon in the world of the mafia. Hell, some of them even are well groomed wearing a suit and tie. Basically, highly educated intellectuals that only give a damn about a phat paycheck.
There's nothing wrong with it. Some people invest in a backyard swimming pool, others a home theater system. But I'm not talking about your average person. I'm talking about those that spend the big bucks on bleeding edge technologies. Again, there's nothing wrong it. However, I find such behavior to be highly impractical let alone cost effective.
Besides, first gen technologies tend to be riddled with bugs. Just hold out till a newer product revision is available. Less bugs, and a lower price.
Have you checked out TrimensionDNM? It was developed by Philips and currently implimented in WinDVD7. The resaults are simply awsome! Totally breathtaking! It's as though all video was shot in 60 FPS or higher. It makes video so lifelike, it's as though I'm watching someone/s from a one-way mirror. It's kinda spooky...in an invasive manor. I really don't know else to explain it.
quoting the Intervideo website
TrimensionDNM is a software implementation of the motion compensated frame rate converter that is known as Digital Natural Motion. This is a very successful feature that is currently used in high end TV sets.
A standard PC monitor displays images with a rate of 60 to 100 images per second. Films are however recorded at 24 images per second. When this film material such as a DVD is displayed on a PC monitor, the frame rate has to be converted, for instance from 24 to 60 frames per second. In this case, the frame rate of the monitor is 2.5 times higher than that of the film. Without TrimensionDNM, each image is shown twice or three times, which is known as 2:3 pulldown.
Due to this repetition, smoothly moving objects will appear to be shaking, which is often referred to as motion judder. Visually this is perceived as trembling, a loss of sharpness or as double images. TrimensionDNM solves this fundamental problem by replacing the repeated images by motion compensated images in which moving objects are at the correct place.
You can check out the demo available from Philips website.
Say you've got an LCD monitor with a native pixel resolution of 1080x760, but you want a desktop resolution of 640x480. You can do it two ways.
1. Use a native 640x480 screen. This will only fill up the center portion of your monitor and will result in a black frame around the border. Simple reason is that your monitor has more pixel area than what your desktop resolution is set to.
2. Stretch the 640x480 picture to 1080x760 which will use up the entire screen. Due to the interpolation (approximation), you end up with a blurry/un-sharp image. This process is called "up converting". Also known as up scaling.
Bragging rights is a small part of it. People that buy into the first wave of technology are of two mindsets. Either they love/lust technology or it's for some self-gratification of being a part of the "elite in-crowd".
You check into the home audio/theater scene. The people are very eccentric and snobbish! It's almost a religious way of life to these people.
Last time I was in Shanghai (september 2005), I found a DVD player for 85 Yuan. Do the conversion, and that's about 10 US dollars!!! That's CHEAPER then some no-name movie. As for the player itself, it was equivilent to an Apex Digital Inc brand. Not bad at all. Not feature rich either...
It really is a supply/demand issue of course. If BlueRay or HD-DVD becomes a pupular format, expect to see these players less that 100 bucks next year. Chinese brand of course.
THAT is SCARY! I mean, we have written documentation that this "religion" was created L Ron Hubbard.
I'll tell you what this is. It's a fuckin legal Ponzi scheme called a religion so as to not have to pay taxes. Genius! Pure Genius!!
1. Create a ponzi scheme. 2. Enshroud it with a self-perpetuating social virus. 3. Architect this social virus in the form of a religion. 4. Be given legal taxation immunity. 5.... 6. Profit
...the staggering advances in clean technology that are possible...
The problem isn't "dirty air". The core of this issue (GW) is CO2 levels. In fact, I remember watching a program (Nova on PBS) about global dimming. The idea was that the Earth wasn't warming up as expected in simulations because they previously didn't take into account the amount of sunlight reflected back into space from particulate matter. In other words, CO2 levels will continue to rise and advancement in emission technologies will reduce particulate matter. As such, expect our Planet to get hotter if this trend continues.
In regards to CO2, that's the byproduct from unlocking the energy bound up in hydro carbons. Unless we find away to store and use energy without the need for hydrocarbons, we will be stuck with using them as an energy catalyst. Until then, CO2 output will forever be in proportion to the amount of energy we consume.
Of course it would be. No need to tell me that. However, try telling that to those that want to blow themselves up for the 72 virgins offered in the afterlife.
The world is no longer sane when you're dealing with the insane. Best to keep that in mind;)
1. Iran is full of religious zelots. 2. Mamood Ahmadi-Najad (president of Iran) denies the holocust happend and threatend Israel to be "wiped off the map"
I don't know about you, but with the USSR and China, at least we can trust (for the most part) their own military will keep the stockpile off the black market. With Iran, you can be damn sure the ayatollahs will *GIVE* them away for free to all would-be jihadist.
Long gone are the days of a nuclear threat in regards to geo-politics. What America (and rest of Europe) needs to realise is that we could be vaporized all in the name of a "GOD"! That's right, most of the wars waged by men throughout history are based on religion. Pretty fucking scary...
I'm running a P4 2.8Ghz (northwood) with 2GB mem. I would love to update my video card, but none of the last few generation of video cards support AGP anymore. Unless you play games that have major AI coded into them (as they tax the CPU), a video card upgrade will go a long way with most MMORPG games.
Fact is, your going to get a better FPS rating if you invest in a faster video card over a faster CPU. Dollar for dollar that is.
Ponder this. China has one of the largest population on Earth. Of that population, most are farmers whome are uneducated and/or poor. Now add to the fact China's consuption of oil is growing from 7% to 9% each year.
Solution: Setup a program so those farmers can produce ethanol. In doing so...
1. Provides the country a stable source of energy. 2. The Chinese government would stop funding wacko dictators that export oil (Iran, Venezuela etc) 3. Produces more ethanol than they need, thus producing an export for us to purchase on the open market. 4. Farmers become wealthy and more educated as the technology forces them to adapt in the competitive market. As such, they too have an increase standard of living.
Now, if someone would just forward this post to memembers of the CCP....
Even if they can cure it, the damage to the brain has already been done. We are talking about major brain tissue loss here. I doubt even stem cell therapy would help much depending how much damage you've taken.
Look at it this way. If you have Alzheimers, you're screwed! It's one of the many risks of being Human when you get older.
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The point is that Senator Al Gore has a brain of his own, and a very good one.
You've got to be kidding right!? Seriously, who in the hell takes this guy seriously when he makes statements about "We've got 10 years left on the enviroment". No sir, Gore has lost credibility with me. Then again, so have most/all other politicians out there too. So do us all a favor and put away your cowbell. We need less cheering and more critical thinking here on Slashdot.
Is there some ergot growing in our wheat supply nowadays that is causing people to lose their minds? Is it all that floride in the water? Cosmic rays? What the hell is going on?
That's a very good question. Just what the hell is going on? Well, I've been thinking about this social symptom of hysteria for quite some time (years actually) and I think I may have an answer
I would postulate the problem stems from social stress and the breakup of the plutonic family structure. I mean, sure we have a mother and/or father. What I'm talking about is the social bond with your family and relatives. Seriously, how many of you on Slashdot maintain those close ties to them and/or siblings. Hell, how many of you even have a "best friend" and not just some jokers you hang out with?
I'm being very serious. The social communal system has fractured big-time in western civilization. Honestly, I'm not sure if and when the pendulum will swing back the other way.
Basically, when its set to quick removal you have both read and writes in sync. When setup for performance, reads and writes are asyncronous. The later isn't problem unless you yank the data cable even if the drive is seams idle. In any event, just be sure to right-click over the removable device icon (located next to the clock) and select Safely Remove Hardware. You can also just double-click on it, and then press the Stop button. This ensures all pending "writes" are flushed back to disk as needed.
NASA is happy too. I mean, nothing could make a geek more happy than to see a big pair of tits from Hubble.
Oh wait, it's pointed the wrong way. Errr, nevermind.
You couldn't be more wrong. In fact, I don't even know where to begin to correct you. But I will say this...
The Islamic Fundamentalist movement is all about establishing a global Islamic theocrocy. Anything other than what is governed in sharia law is hubris. Hubris (or any form there of) as preached in the Koran is the ultimate form of sin, often punishable by death to those in the extreme sect (Islamic Fundamentalists).
When you add it all up, it's very clear that Democrocy is seen as the ultimate sin. No man, woman, or child may govern themselves. All that is needed for governance is written in sharia law. Ergo, Islamic theocrocy.
That sounds nice and all, in theory. But I doubt anyone has ever recovered a file reading residual magnetic fields. Seriously! Just how DO you determain what group of bit/bytes belongs to what generation of residual fields? If you don't know what generation the bits are found on, then threading the data back togeather is meaningless. All you will get is random binary noise.
Why do I get the feeling that Vista is nothing more than Windows Millinium Edition all over again? Sounds like a hacked up NT OS to me.
I won't be installing it. If I must play games, I'll get an game console and hook it up to a computer monitor instead.
It's also a much safer route legally speaking because you aren't directly involved in the criminal act, you're just selling the tools.
Be carefull!!! In the US, you can be charge with being an accessory to a crime.
hackers for hire are not uncommon in the world of the mafia. Hell, some of them even are well groomed wearing a suit and tie. Basically, highly educated intellectuals that only give a damn about a phat paycheck.
There's nothing wrong with it. Some people invest in a backyard swimming pool, others a home theater system. But I'm not talking about your average person. I'm talking about those that spend the big bucks on bleeding edge technologies. Again, there's nothing wrong it. However, I find such behavior to be highly impractical let alone cost effective.
Besides, first gen technologies tend to be riddled with bugs. Just hold out till a newer product revision is available. Less bugs, and a lower price.
quoting the Intervideo website
You can check out the demo available from Philips website.
Say you've got an LCD monitor with a native pixel resolution of 1080x760, but you want a desktop resolution of 640x480. You can do it two ways.
1. Use a native 640x480 screen. This will only fill up the center portion of your monitor and will result in a black frame around the border. Simple reason is that your monitor has more pixel area than what your desktop resolution is set to.
2. Stretch the 640x480 picture to 1080x760 which will use up the entire screen. Due to the interpolation (approximation), you end up with a blurry/un-sharp image. This process is called "up converting". Also known as up scaling.
Bragging rights is a small part of it. People that buy into the first wave of technology are of two mindsets. Either they love/lust technology or it's for some self-gratification of being a part of the "elite in-crowd".
You check into the home audio/theater scene. The people are very eccentric and snobbish! It's almost a religious way of life to these people.
Last time I was in Shanghai (september 2005), I found a DVD player for 85 Yuan. Do the conversion, and that's about 10 US dollars!!! That's CHEAPER then some no-name movie. As for the player itself, it was equivilent to an Apex Digital Inc brand. Not bad at all. Not feature rich either...
It really is a supply/demand issue of course. If BlueRay or HD-DVD becomes a pupular format, expect to see these players less that 100 bucks next year. Chinese brand of course.
You make it sound as though he was executed.
Executed??? Oh wait, wouldn't that be termintated. Arrggghhh, nevermind.
Just how stupid can people be? Hell, I surmise that people will still get infected even if the link said word for word "Click here to get a virus".
Also, how can you get in trouble for releasing such a virus given the user was blatantly informed. Such an experiment is tempting...
Scientology: 500 thousand
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THAT is SCARY! I mean, we have written documentation that this "religion" was created L Ron Hubbard.
I'll tell you what this is. It's a fuckin legal Ponzi scheme called a religion so as to not have to pay taxes. Genius! Pure Genius!!
1. Create a ponzi scheme.
2. Enshroud it with a self-perpetuating social virus.
3. Architect this social virus in the form of a religion.
4. Be given legal taxation immunity.
5.
6. Profit
...the staggering advances in clean technology that are possible...
The problem isn't "dirty air". The core of this issue (GW) is CO2 levels. In fact, I remember watching a program (Nova on PBS) about global dimming. The idea was that the Earth wasn't warming up as expected in simulations because they previously didn't take into account the amount of sunlight reflected back into space from particulate matter. In other words, CO2 levels will continue to rise and advancement in emission technologies will reduce particulate matter. As such, expect our Planet to get hotter if this trend continues.
In regards to CO2, that's the byproduct from unlocking the energy bound up in hydro carbons. Unless we find away to store and use energy without the need for hydrocarbons, we will be stuck with using them as an energy catalyst. Until then, CO2 output will forever be in proportion to the amount of energy we consume.
That would be idiotic.
;)
Of course it would be. No need to tell me that. However, try telling that to those that want to blow themselves up for the 72 virgins offered in the afterlife.
The world is no longer sane when you're dealing with the insane. Best to keep that in mind
Most likely, it would be driven into a city with a small truck or van (along with leaded shielding around the unit).
Yes yes, I know. Sick humor and all. But a "nuclear car bomb" would be the practical method of delivery.
1. Iran is full of religious zelots.
2. Mamood Ahmadi-Najad (president of Iran) denies the holocust happend and threatend Israel to be "wiped off the map"
I don't know about you, but with the USSR and China, at least we can trust (for the most part) their own military will keep the stockpile off the black market. With Iran, you can be damn sure the ayatollahs will *GIVE* them away for free to all would-be jihadist.
Long gone are the days of a nuclear threat in regards to geo-politics. What America (and rest of Europe) needs to realise is that we could be vaporized all in the name of a "GOD"! That's right, most of the wars waged by men throughout history are based on religion. Pretty fucking scary...
Pfftt, please! Such old technology. Shouldn't we be building anti-matter bombs these days?
Not really.
I'm running a P4 2.8Ghz (northwood) with 2GB mem. I would love to update my video card, but none of the last few generation of video cards support AGP anymore. Unless you play games that have major AI coded into them (as they tax the CPU), a video card upgrade will go a long way with most MMORPG games.
Fact is, your going to get a better FPS rating if you invest in a faster video card over a faster CPU. Dollar for dollar that is.
Ponder this. China has one of the largest population on Earth. Of that population, most are farmers whome are uneducated and/or poor. Now add to the fact China's consuption of oil is growing from 7% to 9% each year.
Solution: Setup a program so those farmers can produce ethanol. In doing so...
1. Provides the country a stable source of energy.
2. The Chinese government would stop funding wacko dictators that export oil (Iran, Venezuela etc)
3. Produces more ethanol than they need, thus producing an export for us to purchase on the open market.
4. Farmers become wealthy and more educated as the technology forces them to adapt in the competitive market. As such, they too have an increase standard of living.
Now, if someone would just forward this post to memembers of the CCP....
Even if they can cure it, the damage to the brain has already been done. We are talking about major brain tissue loss here. I doubt even stem cell therapy would help much depending how much damage you've taken.
Look at it this way. If you have Alzheimers, you're screwed! It's one of the many risks of being Human when you get older.