If only there was a way to search for that number so many times it became one of the top searches. Then Google would be "publishing" that number when they publish their search statistics. Google is already publishing that number in some sense - if you type 09 f9 into google suggest it will autocomplete the search.
I've seen studies claiming that cellphone users are as bad as drunk drivers. How could that be? There should have been a massive increase (or any increase) in traffic fatalities, yet there was not. So either cellphone use isn't really as bad as drunk driving, or drunk driving isn't really that bad anyways. Choose one.
Not really. At least in the late 80's when I got interested in that stuff, The C64 was much bigger then the ZX here as well. I actually think the C64 might have been bigger in europe then in the US, since the Apple II had never become quite as popular here.
The Spectrum was a nice machine (still have one somewhere under the desk), but the games on the C64 did look much nicer.
That's a commendable attitude which I'm sure you'll spend many hours explaining to police officers when someone uses your system to download kiddie porn or something equally illegal.
Oh, give me a break. You're sure I'll spend many hours with law enforcement for sharing my WiFi. How many cases of that actually happening have you heard of?
You may see it as so. But the law disagrees. In fact the law (in this instance) is consistent with locks on doors, etc... Absence of a lock is not indicative of permission to enter. This makes sense because, lacking signs, there is no way to tell the difference between a WAP you are encouraged to enter, and one where the owner forgot to lock his door.
To me the destinction is just common sense.
When someone uses my WiFi (which as stated above people are free to do), the worst they can do is to use some of my bandwidth, which I am rather unlikely to use myself at the time. No damage done (or in any case, the damage could be considered neglectible).
When someone steals my car (which I coincidentally never lock either, call me naive, or just not as paranoid, but I can't be bothered), it's quite obvious that they are taking away my property, and anyone can easily imagine that I will be indeed very upset about this.
Then you are very naive. What happens when _you_ get charged with downloading kiddie porn / copyrighted music / etc ?
I don't think I'm being naive. I still have enough trust in my country's (germany in case it's relevant to anyone) legal system, to believe that I couldn't be persecuted without any proper evidence (which clearly wouldn't be present in the case given).
Also, some people just worry too much. How many cases have you actually heard of of this happening?
Uhh, the utter lack of advertisement that it's for public use?
My WAP is open. It is intentionally so. My neighbours or anyone just generally passing by are free to share it. And people frequently do, according to my router's logs. It's not that I'm constantly needing those 6 MBit myself, so why would I mind anyone else using them. I see the fact that the network is unprotected as invitation enough for anyone to join in. I don't see myself posting ad banners around the street saying "Please share my WiFi" (and if I did, i might actually run out of bandwidth at some point).
What percent of the time could plane companies actually fill an entire plane this big?
Well, look at the takeoff schedule for Heathrow for example. I see 22 departures listed to New York today. Some of those might be dupes, as single flights are often listed with multiple flight numbers, but still it would be more then 10 flights a day. Grouping some of those using larger Airplanes would probably be more fuel and cost efficient.
A loud clatter of gunk music flooded through the Heart of Gold cabin as Zaphod searched the sub-etha radio wavebands for news of himself. The machine was rather difficult to operate. For years radios had been operated by means of pressing buttons and turning dials; then as the technology became more sophisticated the controls were made touch-sensitive - you merely had to brush the panels with your fingers; now all you had to do was wave your hand in the general direction of the components and hope. It saved a lot of muscular expenditure of course, but meant that you had to sit infuriatingly still if you wanted to keep listening to the same programme.
According to this, you can get quite a bit further with a 3$ "charge" of conventional gasoline with a conventional car, if you happen to live in Turkmenistan for example.
According to wikipedia, german Autobahns are actually safer the US Interstates, even though there is no general speed limit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_Safety KILLED per 1 BILLION VehKm on Motorways: Germany 3.8 US: 5.2
Traffic in Germany is highly regulated by rules, probably much more then in most other countries. Being german myself, I actually must say that I personally prefer the style of driving in southern-european countries though. Many other countries let drivers rely on their instincts and common-sense much more the we do. It feels more natural to me operating a car that way, then stubbornly following rules. Probably the most un-german place I've ever driven in was Albania - even the captial, Tirana - a place of 700k inhabitants is basically free of any sort of signs, roadmarks or traffic lights except for some key intersections. Takes quite a different approach to handling traffic and navigating, but I if it weren't for the terrible road conditions, I would actually say that I like it. I once saw a study (forgot where it was, though), comparing some South-American city (Lima?) with western cities, which came to the conclusion that the more "aggressive" style of driving there would actually yield a higher throughput of traffic. I wonder if there's some truth there.
[i]Probably won't be doing much migrating next month.[/i]
Actually the Octoberfest is in September and ends Oct 3rd, so once the hangover is gone the can migrate at normal efficiency for the rest of the month.
I think it's meant to be exactly like buying a Volkswagen. Apple and VW target a similar demographic. Upper middle class and above folks who perceive themselves as 'cool' or want to be perceived as 'cool,' and who are susceptible to think of buying a computer or a car as buying a lifestyle or experience, not just a piece of hardware.
strange that you would see it that way in the US. Living in Germany, I percieve a Volkswagen as the opposite of what you just claim - a boring car which common people buy who have no interest in any "livestyle" products (well, at least that goes from your typical golf or passat. Maybe not as much for a new beetle)..
This comes from a Powerbook-wielding Volkswagen owner, who does not comb his hair.
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The MacBook Pro looks great, and it is amazing that they still sell the Powerbook 15inch at the same price as the MacBook Pro- and the MacBook Pro has a better configuration at the same price.
I could imaginge that lot's of specialized software (such as professional audio/video editing stuff) doesn't yet work properly on the intel macs, so there's still a market for G4 Powerbooks.
Plus, would you rather buy something called "Powerbook", or "MacBook Pro"??
One thing i don't understand about hacking OS X to run on beige boxes is:
wouldn't it be simpler to try to run it on a Virtual machine? ie, make the computer boot Mac OS X, instead of making Mac OS X boot on the computer (and re-thinking your hack for every update of OS X).
I never saw the point of the option in the first place, regardless security issues. If I tell Safari to download a file, that's what i want -- download it. I never said what I want to do with it next, so why would i want to open it? Yes in most cases when i download an archive, I'm going to unstuff it soon after. But I might just as well want to burn it to a disc or do whatever else with it, and that's what i want to choose myself. That's why i never enabled that stupid, exploit-ridden option anyways.
We don't have 2 years of driver education. It's actually just something like (on average) 25-30 hours. It will usually cost you more then 1000 euros, though, which makes me wonder if that's all really necessary, or just money making. Two years after having my car license, i decided to do a motorcycle license. Now that's your 25 hours + 1000 euros again. That's one thing i don't quite get. Moving a bike in traffic is essentially the same as moving a car (a bit easier, since your smaller). The only difference is the technical aspect of handling a bike. That's something you could easily teach yourself on a parking lot in two hours.
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I gather it was the European C64
Not really. At least in the late 80's when I got interested in that stuff, The C64 was much bigger then the ZX here as well. I actually think the C64 might have been bigger in europe then in the US, since the Apple II had never become quite as popular here.
The Spectrum was a nice machine (still have one somewhere under the desk), but the games on the C64 did look much nicer.
That's a commendable attitude which I'm sure you'll spend many hours explaining to police officers when someone uses your system to download kiddie porn or something equally illegal.
Oh, give me a break. You're sure I'll spend many hours with law enforcement for sharing my WiFi.
How many cases of that actually happening have you heard of?
You may see it as so. But the law disagrees. In fact the law (in this instance) is consistent with locks on doors, etc... Absence of a lock is not indicative of permission to enter. This makes sense because, lacking signs, there is no way to tell the difference between a WAP you are encouraged to enter, and one where the owner forgot to lock his door.
To me the destinction is just common sense.
When someone uses my WiFi (which as stated above people are free to do), the worst they can do is to use some of my bandwidth, which I am rather unlikely to use myself at the time. No damage done (or in any case, the damage could be considered neglectible).
When someone steals my car (which I coincidentally never lock either, call me naive, or just not as paranoid, but I can't be bothered), it's quite obvious that they are taking away my property, and anyone can easily imagine that I will be indeed very upset about this.
Then you are very naive. What happens when _you_ get charged with downloading kiddie porn / copyrighted music / etc ?
I don't think I'm being naive. I still have enough trust in my country's (germany in case it's relevant to anyone) legal system, to believe that I couldn't be persecuted without any proper evidence (which clearly wouldn't be present in the case given).
Also, some people just worry too much. How many cases have you actually heard of of this happening?
Uhh, the utter lack of advertisement that it's for public use?
My WAP is open. It is intentionally so. My neighbours or anyone just generally passing by are free to share it. And people frequently do, according to my router's logs. It's not that I'm constantly needing those 6 MBit myself, so why would I mind anyone else using them. I see the fact that the network is unprotected as invitation enough for anyone to join in. I don't see myself posting ad banners around the street saying "Please share my WiFi" (and if I did, i might actually run out of bandwidth at some point).
When will we see this technique used to cool the CPUs in gaming machines?
More importantly, when will see this technique to get hand fired freezer guns, so we can play Duke Nukem in real life?
What percent of the time could plane companies actually fill an entire plane this big?
Well, look at the takeoff schedule for Heathrow for example. I see 22 departures listed to New York today. Some of those might be dupes, as single flights are often listed with multiple flight numbers, but still it would be more then 10 flights a day. Grouping some of those using larger Airplanes would probably be more fuel and cost efficient.
A loud clatter of gunk music flooded through the Heart of Gold cabin as Zaphod searched the sub-etha radio wavebands for news of himself. The machine was rather difficult to operate. For years radios had been operated by means of pressing buttons and turning dials; then as the technology became more sophisticated the controls were made touch-sensitive - you merely had to brush the panels with your fingers; now all you had to do was wave your hand in the general direction of the components and hope. It saved a lot of muscular expenditure of course, but meant that you had to sit infuriatingly still if you wanted to keep listening to the same programme.
>Take $0.10 per kW-hr
u elprices-2007.pdf
Energy prices are quite variable around the world - Take a look at this list:
http://www.gtz.de/de/dokumente/en-international-f
According to this, you can get quite a bit further with a 3$ "charge" of conventional gasoline with a conventional car, if you happen to live in Turkmenistan for example.
>Pardon my ignorance, but couldn't they have just thought of an encoding scheme?
This is exactly what is happening behind the scenes AFAIK. It's called Punycode.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode
>Imaging all the new ways to spell bank0famerlca.com.
This is already happening. A common example is the cyrillic lower case "?", which looks almost exactly like the latin "a" in most fonts.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack for more information.
[i]The killer app won't be YouTube, but a youtube-like service that actually hosts full-length episodes.[/i]
You mean like www.alluc.org ? The question is of course how long it survives until they get sued..
According to wikipedia, german Autobahns are actually safer the US Interstates, even though there is no general speed limit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_Safety
KILLED per 1 BILLION VehKm on Motorways:
Germany 3.8
US: 5.2
Traffic in Germany is highly regulated by rules, probably much more then in most other countries.
Being german myself, I actually must say that I personally prefer the style of driving in southern-european countries though. Many other countries let drivers rely on their instincts and common-sense much more the we do. It feels more natural to me operating a car that way, then stubbornly following rules.
Probably the most un-german place I've ever driven in was Albania - even the captial, Tirana - a place of 700k inhabitants is basically free of any sort of signs, roadmarks or traffic lights except for some key intersections. Takes quite a different approach to handling traffic and navigating, but I if it weren't for the terrible road conditions, I would actually say that I like it.
I once saw a study (forgot where it was, though), comparing some South-American city (Lima?) with western cities, which came to the conclusion that the more "aggressive" style of driving there would actually yield a higher throughput of traffic. I wonder if there's some truth there.
[i]Probably won't be doing much migrating next month.[/i]
Actually the Octoberfest is in September and ends Oct 3rd, so once the hangover is gone the can migrate at normal efficiency for the rest of the month.
Same here. Serial Number prefix is 3K508. It also says my Powerbook's S/N is invalid.
Does this actually work for anyone?
Here's a directory of all the custom google logo artwork ("Doodles") so far:
http://www.google.com/intl/en/holidaylogos.html
I think it's meant to be exactly like buying a Volkswagen. Apple and VW target a similar demographic. Upper middle class and above folks who perceive themselves as 'cool' or want to be perceived as 'cool,' and who are susceptible to think of buying a computer or a car as buying a lifestyle or experience, not just a piece of hardware.
strange that you would see it that way in the US. Living in Germany, I percieve a Volkswagen as the opposite of what you just claim - a boring car which common people buy who have no interest in any "livestyle" products (well, at least that goes from your typical golf or passat. Maybe not as much for a new beetle)..
This comes from a Powerbook-wielding Volkswagen owner, who does not comb his hair.
The MacBook Pro looks great, and it is amazing that they still sell the Powerbook 15inch at the same price as the MacBook Pro- and the MacBook Pro has a better configuration at the same price.
I could imaginge that lot's of specialized software (such as professional audio/video editing stuff) doesn't yet work properly on the intel macs, so there's still a market for G4 Powerbooks.
Plus, would you rather buy something called "Powerbook", or "MacBook Pro"??
Most (All?) VM software has extremely poor video emulation. Running MacOS X on unaccelerated SVGA pretty much defeats the point of using it.
Well.. good point. But the same goes for most beige boxes without OS X driver support for accelerated video hardware.
One thing i don't understand about hacking OS X to run on beige boxes is:
wouldn't it be simpler to try to run it on a Virtual machine?
ie, make the computer boot Mac OS X, instead of making Mac OS X boot on the computer (and re-thinking your hack for every update of OS X).
I never saw the point of the option in the first place, regardless security issues. If I tell Safari to download a file, that's what i want -- download it. I never said what I want to do with it next, so why would i want to open it? Yes in most cases when i download an archive, I'm going to unstuff it soon after. But I might just as well want to burn it to a disc or do whatever else with it, and that's what i want to choose myself. That's why i never enabled that stupid, exploit-ridden option anyways.
We don't have 2 years of driver education. It's actually just something like (on average) 25-30 hours. It will usually cost you more then 1000 euros, though, which makes me wonder if that's all really necessary, or just money making.
Two years after having my car license, i decided to do a motorcycle license. Now that's your 25 hours + 1000 euros again. That's one thing i don't quite get. Moving a bike in traffic is essentially the same as moving a car (a bit easier, since your smaller). The only difference is the technical aspect of handling a bike. That's something you could easily teach yourself on a parking lot in two hours.
Others will mod me up, too.