One of my friends put a computer in his VW Passat.. He's a big mac user, but he couldn't bring himself, or his paycheck to accept the defiling of a perfectly good mac for the task. So he used a 933mhz PC.
I think the fact that he used cheap parts allowed him much more freedom to really customize the thing, and he used no PVC!
My friend the pathologist told me about this at least a year ago... The way I remember it, they had too many hedgehog genes and so the scientist called the last one sonic. I do realize this is a protien, not a gene that they're talking about but I'm sure they're related:)
You know for a group of people who generally argue for more freedom on the internet, the tables certainly turn when you people get annoyed at having to click a few times a day.
So what if it uses bandwidth? If you're just a regular guy getting spam in the US, the bandwidth you're forced to use by getting spam costs you less than a penny a year at most (look at the total possible bandwidth you could possibly use each month, in gigabytes, realize you pay 1 fee for any amount within 0 and that number, and calculate the byte/cost and multiply by the amount of bytes of spam you receive).
And those telecom companies who complain about spam and their own added overhead because of it? Well maybe they shouldn't provide service to spammers if they don't like it, just 'collude' to do something useful for a change.
But they probably wouldn't do that on their own, and do you know why? because the spammers are paying customers, and like it or not they still pay the telecommunications companies for their services (probably twice what you pay). So would legislation 'save' the companies money? Well it would save, as well as cost. Who knows what the exact numbers are, but we do know that the entire spamming industry would be brought to its knees, which would certainly put the costs way above the benifits cumulatively.
Oh and by the way, what's the definition of spam, anyways? Many, many things could be considered spam, including your boss asking you to work on sunday. Think about it, you don't want to work on sunday, but the boss is trying to buy your time off you for cash, and you *certainly* don't want the deal. Unrequested, unwanted, and a solicitation. Let's send your boss to jail.
We as a society are entirely too quick to jump into legislation when private solutions work fine (or could work fine). If you want your ISP to ban spammers, threaten to move to an ISP that does it already. That should change the opportunity cost of providing service to spammers a bit more in your favor.
I predicted this new chip wouldn't do well when it came out for reasons relating to the lack of support in the windows OS (I assure you, it took every ounce of mental faculty I have to come up with this.. both monkeys were using the adding machines).
Theory and practice are two very different things. This chip should theoretically be faster, but since Windows is the only x86 OS that has the software everyone wants to see the benchmarks on (GAMES), it's practically a moot point that it's faster, because M$ hates AMD, and probably wont really support 64 bit until longhorn, which might not even sell (and it definitely wont, if slashdot has anything to say about it:)
And the moral of this story is: Gaming and productivity don't mix, so buy an older mac and a new Athlon XP and cover all your bases.
All the reviews I read were identicle to mine: Daikatana is complete crap..
Maybe they were trying to say that there was not a rating low enough to express the complete crappiness level of Daikatana, so therefore any rating given to it would have been way higher than it deserved.
Apparently the news is only running the RIAA's side of the story.
Well who runs the news.. let's see here there's CNN (owned by AOL TW), ABC (owned by Disney), and probably several other companies that also own record labels.
Do you know anyone NOT on slashdot that heard of the price fixing scandal by the record labels? There aren't many, and that's because the conventional TV news sources didn't cover the story, even though it accounted for more than $60million in losses for the record companies that year.. And the news was (and is) refering to the drop in revenues to be the fault of piracy.. every. stinking. time.
What are you talking about?? Hitman 2 was an awesome game!
If you want to talk about games that are totally crappy/bugged to hell, talk about EA games. EA single handedly ruined Global Operations (the would-be best multiplayer game of all time).
While I do dislike trolls (well, some posts by some trolls anyway), I don't think that metamoderation is good for all situations.
Like what if there was a website that occasionally publishes article snippits that are vaguely political, and starts political discussions in which 99% of posts above +2 are some anti-Bush/pro-Dean rhetoric.
However, as a member of a gaming forum, I'd have to say that it is in DIRE NEED of metamoderation.. Just don't let it stop at +5, go up to +2,000 and give everyone a vote, that way there would only be 20 posts on a given topic with different metamods representing each one's popularity.
Moreover: In addition to not getting money to the right people, the current liability tort system also fails to deter negligent behavior, the report finds. Physicians or other health professionals who provide negligent treatment often aren't penalized, and physicians who have provided adequate care sometimes are punished, the study states.
Over the past five years, claims of medical malpractice have stayed relatively the same, however the amount of money paid per claim averages double what it has in the past.
Dot com bust? maybe a little, but we're talking about billions and billions of dollars, 1/3 of which goes to the lawyers..
Here is a link to pci XTREME (which enables quartz xtreme on "incompatible" video cards including PCIs and 2x AGP's).
This thing works with radeons and really makes OS X usable.. but there's word that it might max out PCIs when running too many graphic intensive things at once.. it's too bad a 266 couldn't run anything like that anyway:)
Without quartz xtreme, you almost can't use the file manager.. so of course there's a 3rd party solution: Path Finder. Formally named "SNAX", this extremely fast and effective.. I hate the new name though.
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Though I don't think that their influence would be best described as "left" (though it fits the bill in a lot cases).
They do, in fact defend most of the constitution, get the word out about the U.S.A. Patriot Act and whatnot, but when it comes right down to it, they're all a bunch of lawyers.
Tort reform (putting caps on civil court awards) is something they argue tooth and nail against, even though civil claims are at fault for most of the rise in medical costs, and rates for various types of insurance (doctors give on average 1/3 of their income to mal practice insurance, though 83% of successful claims are frivelous, and rising yearly).
A real, non-discriminatory defender of the constitutional, social, and economic freedoms is the libertarian party. Though I'm a bit bias according to my handle.:)
I live in phoenix, they've done this to a part of the I-17 (near 19th ave).. The road is so nice to drive on, so quiet and the handling on it is prime for going 100 at 3AM (though there's probably 6 or 7 fatal crashes at any given moment, just because the drivers here are totally retarded).
they're doing the SR-51 next, but they're taking their sweet time doing it, at this rate I'll have graduated from ASU before they finish it and make my commute more bareable.
I agree with this guy in full. California's capital flight is a direct result of their "oh damn those rich people" attitude.
Think about it, why do we tax the rich? Is it about punishing them for being rich, or trying to get whatever out of them they're willing to pay? Because if it's the ladder, California should really reexamine their tax system.
Over taxation leads to less revenue and hindered economies. It's a lose lose situation, unless you just really hate the rich.
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It seems I read about this problem a month ago on macnn.com. It seems the 15 inchers are the only ones effected.
I was about to post about this very same discussion on ars tech.. Those are some smart foolios, been correct about a lot of things in the past.
About 60 people actually, but we still lost heh
Thx slashdot!
Nazi Hunter
Here's another binladin one:
http://www.stileproject.com/flash/binladen.html
On another topic, can you do a brother a favor and vote for wadham. If Wadham wins, my buddy's gonna hook me up with the brunett.
One of my friends put a computer in his VW Passat.. He's a big mac user, but he couldn't bring himself, or his paycheck to accept the defiling of a perfectly good mac for the task. So he used a 933mhz PC.
I think the fact that he used cheap parts allowed him much more freedom to really customize the thing, and he used no PVC!
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now, some say THG is bias towards nvida. Others will probably say that this is just a 'special preview' and therefore blah blah blah
either way, unless Doom III finds itself faster than this skimmed down release, most of the current cards can't acheive 60FPS anyway
does mail.app actually check ALL imap folders now and not just the inbox it does on mine! pissed me off too when I switched, I hate imap.
this fixes my g4's boot problems every time
My friend the pathologist told me about this at least a year ago... The way I remember it, they had too many hedgehog genes and so the scientist called the last one sonic. I do realize this is a protien, not a gene that they're talking about but I'm sure they're related :)
You know for a group of people who generally argue for more freedom on the internet, the tables certainly turn when you people get annoyed at having to click a few times a day.
So what if it uses bandwidth? If you're just a regular guy getting spam in the US, the bandwidth you're forced to use by getting spam costs you less than a penny a year at most (look at the total possible bandwidth you could possibly use each month, in gigabytes, realize you pay 1 fee for any amount within 0 and that number, and calculate the byte/cost and multiply by the amount of bytes of spam you receive).
And those telecom companies who complain about spam and their own added overhead because of it? Well maybe they shouldn't provide service to spammers if they don't like it, just 'collude' to do something useful for a change.
But they probably wouldn't do that on their own, and do you know why? because the spammers are paying customers, and like it or not they still pay the telecommunications companies for their services (probably twice what you pay). So would legislation 'save' the companies money? Well it would save, as well as cost. Who knows what the exact numbers are, but we do know that the entire spamming industry would be brought to its knees, which would certainly put the costs way above the benifits cumulatively.
Oh and by the way, what's the definition of spam, anyways? Many, many things could be considered spam, including your boss asking you to work on sunday. Think about it, you don't want to work on sunday, but the boss is trying to buy your time off you for cash, and you *certainly* don't want the deal. Unrequested, unwanted, and a solicitation. Let's send your boss to jail.
We as a society are entirely too quick to jump into legislation when private solutions work fine (or could work fine). If you want your ISP to ban spammers, threaten to move to an ISP that does it already. That should change the opportunity cost of providing service to spammers a bit more in your favor.
I predicted this new chip wouldn't do well when it came out for reasons relating to the lack of support in the windows OS (I assure you, it took every ounce of mental faculty I have to come up with this.. both monkeys were using the adding machines).
:)
Theory and practice are two very different things. This chip should theoretically be faster, but since Windows is the only x86 OS that has the software everyone wants to see the benchmarks on (GAMES), it's practically a moot point that it's faster, because M$ hates AMD, and probably wont really support 64 bit until longhorn, which might not even sell (and it definitely wont, if slashdot has anything to say about it
And the moral of this story is: Gaming and productivity don't mix, so buy an older mac and a new Athlon XP and cover all your bases.
I use unsanity's cleardock, and my custom dock seems to work ok
Supposedly this update was supposed to really speed stuff up, I've yet to notice it on my DP 800 G4
All the reviews I read were identicle to mine: Daikatana is complete crap..
Maybe they were trying to say that there was not a rating low enough to express the complete crappiness level of Daikatana, so therefore any rating given to it would have been way higher than it deserved.
Apparently the news is only running the RIAA's side of the story.
Well who runs the news.. let's see here there's CNN (owned by AOL TW), ABC (owned by Disney), and probably several other companies that also own record labels.
Do you know anyone NOT on slashdot that heard of the price fixing scandal by the record labels? There aren't many, and that's because the conventional TV news sources didn't cover the story, even though it accounted for more than $60million in losses for the record companies that year.. And the news was (and is) refering to the drop in revenues to be the fault of piracy.. every. stinking. time.
What are you talking about?? Hitman 2 was an awesome game!
If you want to talk about games that are totally crappy/bugged to hell, talk about EA games. EA single handedly ruined Global Operations (the would-be best multiplayer game of all time).
While I do dislike trolls (well, some posts by some trolls anyway), I don't think that metamoderation is good for all situations.
Like what if there was a website that occasionally publishes article snippits that are vaguely political, and starts political discussions in which 99% of posts above +2 are some anti-Bush/pro-Dean rhetoric.
However, as a member of a gaming forum, I'd have to say that it is in DIRE NEED of metamoderation.. Just don't let it stop at +5, go up to +2,000 and give everyone a vote, that way there would only be 20 posts on a given topic with different metamods representing each one's popularity.
Now why would anyone do such a thing...
Gothfare
uh... ignore that
In about 80% of medical malpractice claims, no signs of negligent injury are shown, the study notes.
:)
From this source (harvard university study).
Moreover:
In addition to not getting money to the right people, the current liability tort system also fails to deter negligent behavior, the report finds. Physicians or other health professionals who provide negligent treatment often aren't penalized, and physicians who have provided adequate care sometimes are punished, the study states.
Over the past five years, claims of medical malpractice have stayed relatively the same, however the amount of money paid per claim averages double what it has in the past.
Dot com bust? maybe a little, but we're talking about billions and billions of dollars, 1/3 of which goes to the lawyers..
Not like anyone's reading this anyway
Here is a link to pci XTREME (which enables quartz xtreme on "incompatible" video cards including PCIs and 2x AGP's).
:)
This thing works with radeons and really makes OS X usable.. but there's word that it might max out PCIs when running too many graphic intensive things at once.. it's too bad a 266 couldn't run anything like that anyway
Without quartz xtreme, you almost can't use the file manager.. so of course there's a 3rd party solution: Path Finder. Formally named "SNAX", this extremely fast and effective.. I hate the new name though.
Though I don't think that their influence would be best described as "left" (though it fits the bill in a lot cases).
:)
They do, in fact defend most of the constitution, get the word out about the U.S.A. Patriot Act and whatnot, but when it comes right down to it, they're all a bunch of lawyers.
Tort reform (putting caps on civil court awards) is something they argue tooth and nail against, even though civil claims are at fault for most of the rise in medical costs, and rates for various types of insurance (doctors give on average 1/3 of their income to mal practice insurance, though 83% of successful claims are frivelous, and rising yearly).
A real, non-discriminatory defender of the constitutional, social, and economic freedoms is the libertarian party. Though I'm a bit bias according to my handle.
Do I need to explain?
I live in phoenix, they've done this to a part of the I-17 (near 19th ave).. The road is so nice to drive on, so quiet and the handling on it is prime for going 100 at 3AM (though there's probably 6 or 7 fatal crashes at any given moment, just because the drivers here are totally retarded).
they're doing the SR-51 next, but they're taking their sweet time doing it, at this rate I'll have graduated from ASU before they finish it and make my commute more bareable.
I agree with this guy in full. California's capital flight is a direct result of their "oh damn those rich people" attitude.
Think about it, why do we tax the rich? Is it about punishing them for being rich, or trying to get whatever out of them they're willing to pay? Because if it's the ladder, California should really reexamine their tax system.
Over taxation leads to less revenue and hindered economies. It's a lose lose situation, unless you just really hate the rich.