The reason why 2004 was a banner year for property damage is because we have such good technology, not necessarily because storms are getting worse. Along with better protection systems and more advanced warnings comes a feeling that it is more safe to live somewhere. So more people build houses in the area, and when disaster strikes, they run away, then come back to build more houses.
I don't know if storms have increased in power over the past x years, but looking at things like deathtoll and destruction costs are not good measures.
I don't own an Extigy, but my roommate did, and I "borrowed" it on frequent occasions. He has a 5.1 surround sound speaker set up in the room that was excellent for watching movies, playing music, whatever. It was nice to be able to plug in the extigy whenever I had some songs I wanted to play on my laptop while he was in class or out.
The major problem we found was no support for DVD 5.1 audio. We never figured out if it was the extigy, the OS, or the dvd player... but the Extigy (sorta) made up for it by mixing the front channels to the back speakers with ease.
If you've got a laptop, I reccommend the easy to plug-n-play Extigy.
In many of my programming classes, as well as engineering or other math classes I find that a laptop is an extremely valuable tool. I can be listening to the professor talk about a new concept in whatever language we're learning, and immediately put it to use. Plus when the professor talks about updates to our programming projects I can make little comments quickly in my code to remind myself later to fix something (if I can't make the change right then and there).
In engineering I can apply some of the new techniques in AutoCAD or AutoDesk right as I learn them, thereby making the concepts stick.
Contrast this with writing things down by hand where the concept is vague at best and downright foreign at worst. Then later in my room I have to cypher through paraphrased notes to figure out what the professor was actually talking about. I'm all for laptops in class.
With that said, it does require some self control to be able to stay away from AIM or other distractions while the professor gets longwinded... but still, the benefits outweigh the negative side in my opinion
While you may not be in college or high school, its views like yours that let democracy fall. So Bin Laden trained a few hundred terrorists (because of our egotistical superiority over the middle east, but thats a whole 'nother topic)... does that give the United States any right to "suspect everybody"??? ABSOLUTELY NOT!!!
The reason that people live in this great country is because people have the freedom to do what they feel is necessary to protect their rights. If someone wants to "steal gas trucks and ram them into office buildings," certainly the government should take steps to stop them from doing so, but not at the expense of giving up our personal freedoms such as the right to privacy.
Sure, its a scary world, and the possibilities are definitely endless for terrorists who want to blow shit up. But being so gripped by fear to give up your freedom to live your life is the most idiotic way to live I've ever heard. There are millions of people around the world living under that kinda of facist/militaristic rule, and I'd be willing to bet that any one of them would LOVE to trade places with you, with the ability to use the internet to look up information they never knew existed before, to drive around in a car wherever they want, and if they desire, to rise up against an evil government and overthrow them!
Have we all lost the ability to scan for information that we need on a webpage or any other source. Next they'll develop books that have the "keywords" you enter into your pda come off the page and slap you in the face.
Just another technology to help those of us with tech-driven ADD[slashdot.org]
the story stated that the problem was caused by bad modems... so perhaps they had a batch of 18k modems that they bought at one time from some vendor, that would explain the relatively low number of recalls.
Mary EcEvoy, a spokeswoman for Sony in the United States, said a user could receive a shock such as that from static electricity
Does it really hurt that much to warrant such a recall? Static electricity is fun to play with, not a violent killer. Go run around a carpet with your socks on and then attack somebody, its great!
The chances of getting two specific cards is something like 1/52 * 1/52 = 1/2704 -- too small to care about.
I don't think that's correct. Granted there are 52 cards in a deck, but don't you have to take into account the fact that you only get 5 cards, and that all the cards are not dealt? Plus, I know I get a pair of anything way more than 0.03% of the time.
RTA...
1. The adoption of the Linux open-source operating system, which can be obtained for free and copied or modified
2. Until now, the Japanese government has relied on expensive large-scale computers for its backbone system. The new system, using lower-priced advanced servers and personal computers, is expected to halve the network's operating costs to around 350 billion yen a year
Linux doesn't have games?????
TUX RACER all the way baby... what could be more addicting that watching a little penguin fly down a snowy and icy course eating herring?!??!
Why hasn't Hormel realized the marketing opportunity of the slang term "spam"...
instead of "You've got Mail"...
"You've got Spam, and a delicious meat subsitute"
eh, maybe I shouldn't be their marketing director
Keep on pumping out those 17, 19, 21, 40 inch screens on laptops with all the fun toys... its making the smaller, better, lighter, just as capable ones even cheaper!
I don't know about the rest of you, but I enjoy the quiet touch of my laptop's keyboard while I'm coding... its so much easier to fly across the keys without having to slam each one home...
just my opinion
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The reason why 2004 was a banner year for property damage is because we have such good technology, not necessarily because storms are getting worse. Along with better protection systems and more advanced warnings comes a feeling that it is more safe to live somewhere. So more people build houses in the area, and when disaster strikes, they run away, then come back to build more houses.
I don't know if storms have increased in power over the past x years, but looking at things like deathtoll and destruction costs are not good measures.
and the only perscription... is more cowbell!
Or...
AOL/Time Warner also has control over record making and has close ties with the RIAA...
Why else would the RIAA stay away, they don't want to hurt their friends.
I don't own an Extigy, but my roommate did, and I "borrowed" it on frequent occasions. He has a 5.1 surround sound speaker set up in the room that was excellent for watching movies, playing music, whatever. It was nice to be able to plug in the extigy whenever I had some songs I wanted to play on my laptop while he was in class or out.
The major problem we found was no support for DVD 5.1 audio. We never figured out if it was the extigy, the OS, or the dvd player... but the Extigy (sorta) made up for it by mixing the front channels to the back speakers with ease.
If you've got a laptop, I reccommend the easy to plug-n-play Extigy.
PORN!!!
Does this mean parents are going to start actually looking at what the kids are downloading from kazaa???
I can see it now...
Porn vs. RIAA
place your bets folks
I disagree...
In many of my programming classes, as well as engineering or other math classes I find that a laptop is an extremely valuable tool. I can be listening to the professor talk about a new concept in whatever language we're learning, and immediately put it to use. Plus when the professor talks about updates to our programming projects I can make little comments quickly in my code to remind myself later to fix something (if I can't make the change right then and there).
In engineering I can apply some of the new techniques in AutoCAD or AutoDesk right as I learn them, thereby making the concepts stick.
Contrast this with writing things down by hand where the concept is vague at best and downright foreign at worst. Then later in my room I have to cypher through paraphrased notes to figure out what the professor was actually talking about. I'm all for laptops in class.
With that said, it does require some self control to be able to stay away from AIM or other distractions while the professor gets longwinded... but still, the benefits outweigh the negative side in my opinion
While you may not be in college or high school, its views like yours that let democracy fall. So Bin Laden trained a few hundred terrorists (because of our egotistical superiority over the middle east, but thats a whole 'nother topic)... does that give the United States any right to "suspect everybody"??? ABSOLUTELY NOT!!!
The reason that people live in this great country is because people have the freedom to do what they feel is necessary to protect their rights. If someone wants to "steal gas trucks and ram them into office buildings," certainly the government should take steps to stop them from doing so, but not at the expense of giving up our personal freedoms such as the right to privacy.
Sure, its a scary world, and the possibilities are definitely endless for terrorists who want to blow shit up. But being so gripped by fear to give up your freedom to live your life is the most idiotic way to live I've ever heard. There are millions of people around the world living under that kinda of facist/militaristic rule, and I'd be willing to bet that any one of them would LOVE to trade places with you, with the ability to use the internet to look up information they never knew existed before, to drive around in a car wherever they want, and if they desire, to rise up against an evil government and overthrow them!
Have we all lost the ability to scan for information that we need on a webpage or any other source. Next they'll develop books that have the "keywords" you enter into your pda come off the page and slap you in the face.
Just another technology to help those of us with tech-driven ADD[slashdot.org]
the story stated that the problem was caused by bad modems... so perhaps they had a batch of 18k modems that they bought at one time from some vendor, that would explain the relatively low number of recalls.
Mary EcEvoy, a spokeswoman for Sony in the United States, said a user could receive a shock such as that from static electricity
Does it really hurt that much to warrant such a recall? Static electricity is fun to play with, not a violent killer. Go run around a carpet with your socks on and then attack somebody, its great!
The chances of getting two specific cards is something like 1/52 * 1/52 = 1/2704 -- too small to care about.
I don't think that's correct. Granted there are 52 cards in a deck, but don't you have to take into account the fact that you only get 5 cards, and that all the cards are not dealt? Plus, I know I get a pair of anything way more than 0.03% of the time.
RTA...
1. The adoption of the Linux open-source operating system, which can be obtained for free and copied or modified
2. Until now, the Japanese government has relied on expensive large-scale computers for its backbone system. The new system, using lower-priced advanced servers and personal computers, is expected to halve the network's operating costs to around 350 billion yen a year
Linux doesn't have games?????
TUX RACER all the way baby... what could be more addicting that watching a little penguin fly down a snowy and icy course eating herring?!??!
it's not US-Centric, they left out vermont, tennessee, arizona, and puerto rico...
Why hasn't Hormel realized the marketing opportunity of the slang term "spam"... instead of "You've got Mail"... "You've got Spam, and a delicious meat subsitute" eh, maybe I shouldn't be their marketing director
Keep on pumping out those 17, 19, 21, 40 inch screens on laptops with all the fun toys... its making the smaller, better, lighter, just as capable ones even cheaper!
I don't know about the rest of you, but I enjoy the quiet touch of my laptop's keyboard while I'm coding... its so much easier to fly across the keys without having to slam each one home... just my opinion