I really hope this jerk is arrested for reckless endangerment to others. If he wants to play with own life, fine, but risking the lives of others for your own fun is not cool.
I saw something on Beyond Tomorrow on the Science channel several months ago where they were doing this with unmodified drives. It was all done in the software. In the example they tested to see if something was anthrax or not. I can't seem to find anything about it except for references to the show. I believe it was episode 23 if it's available anywhere.
Same with me. I hadn't even heard of a mashup before. I had to look it up to find out what this news post was talking about. I really don't understand the point of most of this Web 2.0 stuff, but some people seem to like it.
A few years ago I heard that barrels were going to be the new crate, but I haven't seen that happen yet. I'm still holding out for baby carriages to be the new crates, so long as they're fully destructible. Barrels are the old crate. Remember how many barrels were in Doom and Wolfenstein? I don't remember those two having as many crates as barrels (if they even had crates at all).
There are some large things that can make shipping very expensive. I don't know how much it costs these days, but when I bought my HDTV about 3.5 years ago, shipping was $350. It was still less than buying in a store, but that was back when they were $4000+ in stores. Now that they're cheaper, I wonder if they can still discount them enough online to counter the shipping cost (or if shipping has come down drastically).
Last year I bought my Samsung 940BW (19" widescreen LCD) at Best Buy (in the store) for $10 less than even NewEgg had it. No mail in rebate or anything, just $50 off that weekend. Their normal prices might not be the best, but if you get the right thing at the right time, you can get good deals there.
Yep. I'm waiting for a Final Fantasy to come out before getting the PS3...and for the price to drop. No way I'm paying $600 for a system just to play a couple games on it.
Whether they say 53,103,102 or 53,000,000, it's still to the person. Just because one number is a little more "neat" than the other, there's no way to know which one is more accurate. The actual number could be higher than the first number, meaning rounding down would just make it even less accurate. It makes more sense to me to give a result that's in the middle of the error range than rounding.
Not only were the predictions what MS was working on, but all of the correct ones were things that were already starting to come true by the time he said them. In 1997 he predicted that the Web would be a big thing. By then I had been online for 4 years, and it was already getting pretty big. Anyone could have predicted it would only get bigger (as the article said, it would have been more impressive if he'd made it two years earlier).
How does the BSA have anything to do with using the GIMP? The BSA would not come in and kick your ass for using the GIMP over Photoshop. They are not "use proprietary software for professional works only" police. That's not what he said. He said he'd buy a legal copy of Photoshop if he used it professionally, rather than using something free like the Gimp.
Is a 60-card collection of trivia really going that useful a supplement? Can you really fit enough useful information onto a card to teach anything useful? IMO, the card game will probably be played solely as a game, if at all, rather than as a learning aid.
It's not meant to be a replacement for a chemistry class, and it's not meant for people over the age of about 16. Even if the game is played solely as a game, it doesn't mean kids won't take something away from it. I can almost guarantee they'll be more likely to pay attention in class if the subject is something they've at least heard of, even if they don't know much about it. Even if the only thing they learn is that copper gives up its single electron in its valence shell, at least it's something, and it will probably help them better understand conductivity when they learn it in science class.
Unfortunately most apartments and houses seem to have living rooms designed in such a way that it's impossible to place a TV. I guess real A/V philes would have a windowless room with nothing but the TV, sound system, and reclining chairs with cup holders built-in to the arm rests, but some people can't afford that. lol. Whenever I move to a new place, I always consider TV and speaker placement above all else in the living room, but normally I have to make some sacrifices. My current apartment is designed so I could either have my TV in a corner, or make it so I'd have to climb over the sofa to get in the front door.
I never understood that either. I think very few people willing to spend money on an HDTV are going to using the built-in speakers on it. I suppose that will get more common though as HD becomes more main-stream, and not just for people interested in the best viewing experience. I don't buy the argument that DVI was "confusing" just because there are a couple different configurations. It's very easy to tell which your devices use. The only real down-sides I believe DVI has were carried over to HDMI, such as the short range. I don't think HDMI has any real-world advantages over DVI.
I miss OptOnline. I lived on Long Island for 3 years in between my two Time Warner cable modems, and I got 10Mb down and 1Mb up (in 2002). I didn't say that all providers cap it at 1/5. Just most. It seems to vary by region, even with the same provider. I've seen RoadRunner customers with much higher speeds than I have, but in other areas of the country.
Most cable companies cap their services at less than 1/5 of what the current modems are already capable of doing with a single cable line. If I thought there was any chance I would actually get 150Mb, I might be kind of excited about it. With Time Warner, my Downstream is only twice as fast as it was 10 years ago, and the Upstream is the same as it was back then!
This is not the same technology that was used in Superman Returns for IMAX 3D. For the IMAX version, they used "proprietary 2D to 3D conversion technology." It wasn't actually filmed with stereoscopic cameras. IMAX 3D also only does 48 frames per second instead of 144, and as far as I can tell does not use the radial polarization that Real D uses.
What IMAX seems to use is just the standard current 3D technology, which uses polarized lenses rotated 90 from one another. I've not seen Real D in action, and I have my doubts as to whether it actually lives up to their claims, but it sounds like it should at least be better than the current technology.
Why use photovoltaic panels for a power plant? They're nice for small applications, or for homes, but if you're building a power plant, something like the Solar Energy Generating Systems in the Mojave Desert makes more sense. They make 165MW and I believe only take 1,000 acres (only slightly more than the 365 hectares of this one). They've already been in operation over 20 years, but there doesn't seem to be anyone doing something similar.
In their performance section, Vista won because more games are compatible with it, and PCs have more HDDVD and Blu-Ray options available? I don't get how this has anything to do with performance of the operating system.
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I really hope this jerk is arrested for reckless endangerment to others. If he wants to play with own life, fine, but risking the lives of others for your own fun is not cool.
I saw something on Beyond Tomorrow on the Science channel several months ago where they were doing this with unmodified drives. It was all done in the software. In the example they tested to see if something was anthrax or not. I can't seem to find anything about it except for references to the show. I believe it was episode 23 if it's available anywhere.
ping [option] [option] [option] [option] host Mine's even worse than the grandparent's:
SYNOPSIS
ping [-AaDdfnoQqRrv] [-c count] [-i wait] [-l preload] [-M mask | time]
[-m ttl] [-P policy] [-p pattern] [-S src_addr] [-s packetsize]
[-t timeout] [-z tos] host
ping [-AaDdfLnoQqRrv] [-c count] [-I iface] [-i wait] [-l preload]
[-M mask | time] [-m ttl] [-P policy] [-p pattern] [-S src_addr]
[-s packetsize] [-T ttl] [-t timeout] [-z tos] mcast-group
This is in OS X
Same with me. I hadn't even heard of a mashup before. I had to look it up to find out what this news post was talking about. I really don't understand the point of most of this Web 2.0 stuff, but some people seem to like it.
How do we know the study that shows that most studies are tainted isn't tainted?
Does he really think that someone searching for "genocide" is trying to learn how to commit it? That's rather silly.
One of my friends is in the same clan as Justin Lowe, and said he didn't do anything to cause problems like this.
There are some large things that can make shipping very expensive. I don't know how much it costs these days, but when I bought my HDTV about 3.5 years ago, shipping was $350. It was still less than buying in a store, but that was back when they were $4000+ in stores. Now that they're cheaper, I wonder if they can still discount them enough online to counter the shipping cost (or if shipping has come down drastically).
Last year I bought my Samsung 940BW (19" widescreen LCD) at Best Buy (in the store) for $10 less than even NewEgg had it. No mail in rebate or anything, just $50 off that weekend. Their normal prices might not be the best, but if you get the right thing at the right time, you can get good deals there.
Yep. I'm waiting for a Final Fantasy to come out before getting the PS3...and for the price to drop. No way I'm paying $600 for a system just to play a couple games on it.
Whether they say 53,103,102 or 53,000,000, it's still to the person. Just because one number is a little more "neat" than the other, there's no way to know which one is more accurate. The actual number could be higher than the first number, meaning rounding down would just make it even less accurate. It makes more sense to me to give a result that's in the middle of the error range than rounding.
Thin and light = small battery.
Not only were the predictions what MS was working on, but all of the correct ones were things that were already starting to come true by the time he said them. In 1997 he predicted that the Web would be a big thing. By then I had been online for 4 years, and it was already getting pretty big. Anyone could have predicted it would only get bigger (as the article said, it would have been more impressive if he'd made it two years earlier).
Is a 60-card collection of trivia really going that useful a supplement? Can you really fit enough useful information onto a card to teach anything useful? IMO, the card game will probably be played solely as a game, if at all, rather than as a learning aid.
It's not meant to be a replacement for a chemistry class, and it's not meant for people over the age of about 16. Even if the game is played solely as a game, it doesn't mean kids won't take something away from it. I can almost guarantee they'll be more likely to pay attention in class if the subject is something they've at least heard of, even if they don't know much about it. Even if the only thing they learn is that copper gives up its single electron in its valence shell, at least it's something, and it will probably help them better understand conductivity when they learn it in science class.Unfortunately most apartments and houses seem to have living rooms designed in such a way that it's impossible to place a TV. I guess real A/V philes would have a windowless room with nothing but the TV, sound system, and reclining chairs with cup holders built-in to the arm rests, but some people can't afford that. lol. Whenever I move to a new place, I always consider TV and speaker placement above all else in the living room, but normally I have to make some sacrifices. My current apartment is designed so I could either have my TV in a corner, or make it so I'd have to climb over the sofa to get in the front door.
I never understood that either. I think very few people willing to spend money on an HDTV are going to using the built-in speakers on it. I suppose that will get more common though as HD becomes more main-stream, and not just for people interested in the best viewing experience. I don't buy the argument that DVI was "confusing" just because there are a couple different configurations. It's very easy to tell which your devices use. The only real down-sides I believe DVI has were carried over to HDMI, such as the short range. I don't think HDMI has any real-world advantages over DVI.
I miss OptOnline. I lived on Long Island for 3 years in between my two Time Warner cable modems, and I got 10Mb down and 1Mb up (in 2002). I didn't say that all providers cap it at 1/5. Just most. It seems to vary by region, even with the same provider. I've seen RoadRunner customers with much higher speeds than I have, but in other areas of the country.
Most cable companies cap their services at less than 1/5 of what the current modems are already capable of doing with a single cable line. If I thought there was any chance I would actually get 150Mb, I might be kind of excited about it. With Time Warner, my Downstream is only twice as fast as it was 10 years ago, and the Upstream is the same as it was back then!
Looks like someone just knew the numbers, and not the order. He also wrote 325, 523, and 532 USB WebCam drivers for Linux.
This is not the same technology that was used in Superman Returns for IMAX 3D. For the IMAX version, they used "proprietary 2D to 3D conversion technology." It wasn't actually filmed with stereoscopic cameras. IMAX 3D also only does 48 frames per second instead of 144, and as far as I can tell does not use the radial polarization that Real D uses.
What IMAX seems to use is just the standard current 3D technology, which uses polarized lenses rotated 90 from one another. I've not seen Real D in action, and I have my doubts as to whether it actually lives up to their claims, but it sounds like it should at least be better than the current technology.
Why use photovoltaic panels for a power plant? They're nice for small applications, or for homes, but if you're building a power plant, something like the Solar Energy Generating Systems in the Mojave Desert makes more sense. They make 165MW and I believe only take 1,000 acres (only slightly more than the 365 hectares of this one). They've already been in operation over 20 years, but there doesn't seem to be anyone doing something similar.
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In their performance section, Vista won because more games are compatible with it, and PCs have more HDDVD and Blu-Ray options available? I don't get how this has anything to do with performance of the operating system.