I work in a large retail store. We used to sell just as many Gamecubes as Xboxes. About two of each every day. In the past few months, I've noticed Xbox console sales have gone down only slightly, while Gamecube sales have almost halted. We sell about 2 gamecubes each MONTH now..
From what the article says, I've been thinking the same thing for a long time. You can never have a precice moment in time. The units we measure are human-made. Certain measurment devices are more accurate than others. Nothing is completely accurate, but what we have is good enough for all practical purposes.
Take a picture with a camera. When you look at the photograph, you are imagining a precice moment in time, but in reality, the camera shutter was open for an infinitely measurable ammount of moments.
In our terms, the film has captured a few milliseconds of data. But it's actually an infinitely measurable ammount of time, because we can break it down even further into picoseconds, nanoseconds, and numbers we don't eve have words for..
That's what I got from the article. And it's nothing new to me..
Don't let the trailer stop you from seeing this movie. I thought it was going to suck after seeing the trailers too, but it turned out to be good. The trailers show a lot of the CGI effects, but the actual movie doesn't rely too much on these.
I don't think the ending sets up what has to be T4. The ending answers the question of how John becomes the leader of the human resistance. The tale of what happens next has already been told in T1 and T2. I suppose they *Could* make another Terminator movie out of it, set during/after judgement day, but I don't think it will happen.
Yes, the movie does have some plot holes, but I think it is the best action movie this year so far. I personally thought it was going to suck before seeing it, because the CGI scenes of the robots looked cheesy and fake in the previews, but I ended up enjoying it.
...Also, you add scenes where she can control physical things (cars) with electronic means defies any kind of rational explanation. Its dumb for dumb sake.
Most car's ignition systems are totally electronically controlled these days. It's definately possible to control the speed, and related functions. But as for the steering.. Well, there is no rational explanation I can think of. Keep in mind the target audience of the movie. Only the slashdot type crowd would question this stuff.
If you compile and install from source, most configure scripts will tell you if you need a certain library or other dependancy, and if there will be a conflict. No need for a package management system. I've been running Slackware for years, and never ran into the problems you described. If I don't have a certain dependancy configure will tell me, and I will get it. If I still have problems, I will RTFM.
Easy solution, Get a little more RAM, and put in a CD-ROM drive. Store your linux distro on a CD. Have it boot from the floppy, and copy the CD to the RAMdisk. Still no moving parts except the fans, because the CD-ROM only needs to be used once every boot-up, aka every 2 years.
Don't use a host that charges ridiculous prices for bandwidth usage. This is a huge cash cow for hosting companies. It didn't used to be like this, until they figured out they could charge money for it. If you do use a host that charges these ridiculous prices, make sure they can turn your site off after it's reached a certain bandwidth limit, so you don't end up getting charged $10,000 for being Slashdotted.
Another solution, host yourself on your own servers. You can transfer an unlimited number of bytes. You are only limited by your bandwidth.
A lot of people want SCSI. They don't have it because it's too expensive. They are more expensive because they can be, not because they use better parts and are individually tested. Individually testing a drive does not add THAT much to the price.
Cartridges DO NOT cost that much to produce. Especially the low capacity ones used in the GBA. Maybe 15 years ago they costed around $20 to make, but now it is around 1 or 2 dollars.
I seriously doubt I will be using any Intuit product ever again, due to their utter stupidity. This area is not for program data. It's not like the rest of your hard drive where programs can be scattered everywhere. The filesystem takes care of this..
Turbotax is writing it's data to your fucking boot sector, where a filesystem is non-existant. This is the reason that only one program should be there.
Sure, if you just run windows, which Intuit is assuming, there probably won't be a problem, as they know where MS stores it's boot sector data,,and they use a different part of it. But if you run more than one OS, and a non-MS bootloader such as lilo or Grub, then you will have undefined results, as these bootloaders likely store data on the same spot as TurboTax is.
Last year's TurboTax had no such protection, and didn't even require a serial number. It was a good program and worked well. This year marks the end of my support for Intuit.
"if you've been served with a subpoena for documents, you can't destroy them, even if your policy is to dispose of them (I have another post around here that doesn't make that clear, so there you have it). So, yes, you are legally liable for obstruction of justice if you don't stop the cronjob."
The subpoena is requesting logs between 11/7/02 00:00:00 GMT and 11/14/02 23:59:59 GMT.
So, since they delete logs daily, there is no way they can produce these logs. They are not obligated to stop deleting logs, because they are not in question, only logs between november 7 and 14th are in question.
Pretty much the only thing correct about this article is the fact that lossy compression does not reproduce a signal identical to the original.
When you compress something into say an mp3, it gets rid of certain things you wouldn't normally hear. But the things it gets rid of are different for different parts of the song, so what it throws out is not always the same. Well, there is one thing mp3 will almost always throw out,,and that is frequencies above a certain threshold. Usually anything above 18-20khz is thrown out. Using this logic, CD's are technically lossy too, since they throw out anything above ~44khz. Nobody can hear that high anyways.
The only thing anyone needs to worry about is if they spend all their waking hours in headphones, listening to low quality mp3's all day. Even if there are any risks, I don't think the damage would be permanent.
Has anyone noticed after listening to headphones a few hours, and taking them off, it takes a few minutes to get used to your environment again?
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I work in a large retail store. We used to sell just as many Gamecubes as Xboxes. About two of each every day. In the past few months, I've noticed Xbox console sales have gone down only slightly, while Gamecube sales have almost halted. We sell about 2 gamecubes each MONTH now..
How to Assemble the Ultimate Toolbox
GOes into a lot of detail on the various tools needed for PC repair.
From what the article says, I've been thinking the same thing for a long time. You can never have a precice moment in time. The units we measure are human-made. Certain measurment devices are more accurate than others. Nothing is completely accurate, but what we have is good enough for all practical purposes.
Take a picture with a camera. When you look at the photograph, you are imagining a precice moment in time, but in reality, the camera shutter was open for an infinitely measurable ammount of moments.
In our terms, the film has captured a few milliseconds of data. But it's actually an infinitely measurable ammount of time, because we can break it down even further into picoseconds, nanoseconds, and numbers we don't eve have words for..
That's what I got from the article. And it's nothing new to me..
We will not make it to 2050, unless we act now. Impeach Bush
Don't let the trailer stop you from seeing this movie. I thought it was going to suck after seeing the trailers too, but it turned out to be good. The trailers show a lot of the CGI effects, but the actual movie doesn't rely too much on these.
Spoiler Alert:
I don't think the ending sets up what has to be T4. The ending answers the question of how John becomes the leader of the human resistance. The tale of what happens next has already been told in T1 and T2. I suppose they *Could* make another Terminator movie out of it, set during/after judgement day, but I don't think it will happen.
Yes, the movie does have some plot holes, but I think it is the best action movie this year so far. I personally thought it was going to suck before seeing it, because the CGI scenes of the robots looked cheesy and fake in the previews, but I ended up enjoying it.
...Also, you add scenes where she can control physical things (cars) with electronic means defies any kind of rational explanation. Its dumb for dumb sake.
Most car's ignition systems are totally electronically controlled these days. It's definately possible to control the speed, and related functions. But as for the steering.. Well, there is no rational explanation I can think of. Keep in mind the target audience of the movie. Only the slashdot type crowd would question this stuff.
Great news! This proves you can never completely kill a free software project.
Go see it in the theater folks. The internet downloads look like you are watching a shitty japanese movie in vhs on a 30 year old color television.
They are not dropping the vpr Matrix line. They stopped selling them temporarily and are going through some restructuring.
#bookz on undernet, and alt.binaries.e-book newsgroups.
If you compile and install from source, most configure scripts will tell you if you need a certain library or other dependancy, and if there will be a conflict. No need for a package management system. I've been running Slackware for years, and never ran into the problems you described. If I don't have a certain dependancy configure will tell me, and I will get it. If I still have problems, I will RTFM.
Easy solution, Get a little more RAM, and put in a CD-ROM drive. Store your linux distro on a CD. Have it boot from the floppy, and copy the CD to the RAMdisk. Still no moving parts except the fans, because the CD-ROM only needs to be used once every boot-up, aka every 2 years.
Don't use a host that charges ridiculous prices for bandwidth usage. This is a huge cash cow for hosting companies. It didn't used to be like this, until they figured out they could charge money for it. If you do use a host that charges these ridiculous prices, make sure they can turn your site off after it's reached a certain bandwidth limit, so you don't end up getting charged $10,000 for being Slashdotted.
Another solution, host yourself on your own servers. You can transfer an unlimited number of bytes. You are only limited by your bandwidth.
'we can also hear the so called "silent alarms" used in some banks'
What exactly is it you do for a living?! Do you hear these silent alarms often?
http://kickme.to/ebookfaq/
look at the e-book readers section. You will find something you like on that page.
A lot of people want SCSI. They don't have it because it's too expensive. They are more expensive because they can be, not because they use better parts and are individually tested. Individually testing a drive does not add THAT much to the price.
Cartridges DO NOT cost that much to produce. Especially the low capacity ones used in the GBA. Maybe 15 years ago they costed around $20 to make, but now it is around 1 or 2 dollars.
I seriously doubt I will be using any Intuit product ever again, due to their utter stupidity. This area is not for program data. It's not like the rest of your hard drive where programs can be scattered everywhere. The filesystem takes care of this..
,and they use a different part of it. But if you run more than one OS, and a non-MS bootloader such as lilo or Grub, then you will have undefined results, as these bootloaders likely store data on the same spot as TurboTax is.
Turbotax is writing it's data to your fucking boot sector, where a filesystem is non-existant. This is the reason that only one program should be there.
Sure, if you just run windows, which Intuit is assuming, there probably won't be a problem, as they know where MS stores it's boot sector data,
Last year's TurboTax had no such protection, and didn't even require a serial number. It was a good program and worked well. This year marks the end of my support for Intuit.
I seriously doubt there will be anywhere near 100,000 people signing up. In order to sign up, you need a valid Warcraft 3 CD key.
Anyone have a URL to this spec PDF ?
And it's because of people like you that our freedoms are slowly being eaten away.
This year has been the biggest year ever in console game sales. I do not think these people are losing money to pirates.
Pretty much the only thing correct about this article is the fact that lossy compression does not reproduce a signal identical to the original.
,and that is frequencies above a certain threshold. Usually anything above 18-20khz is thrown out. Using this logic, CD's are technically lossy too, since they throw out anything above ~44khz. Nobody can hear that high anyways.
When you compress something into say an mp3, it gets rid of certain things you wouldn't normally hear. But the things it gets rid of are different for different parts of the song, so what it throws out is not always the same. Well, there is one thing mp3 will almost always throw out,
The only thing anyone needs to worry about is if they spend all their waking hours in headphones, listening to low quality mp3's all day. Even if there are any risks, I don't think the damage would be permanent.
Has anyone noticed after listening to headphones a few hours, and taking them off, it takes a few minutes to get used to your environment again?
So I don't think they will be using this as an argument.