-USB drive caching (SuperFetch)--USB drives are fairly fast right now. Joe Sixpack won't care
No, but he might care that his flash drive's life is cut in half because its limited number of rewrites is being used up whenever it's in the computer.
(BTW, the caching is not to speed up USB drives, it's to speed up the system)
Can anyone come up with a good reason why we rely on separate companies, who have a vested interest in there being dangerous virii out in the open so that people will buy their software?
Why don't we hold the OS makers, who have a vested interest in their OS being free from these sorts of threats accountable for either eliminating vulnerabilities or providing their own anti virus software, as an integral part of the operating system?
The only other source that could possibly be reliable would be the OSS community, which wouldn't be getting any money for the increase of users installing anti-malware software.
because a mistake could mean I either stay up an hour or two later and retrieve my corpse, or let it evaporate and cripple my character by destroying (possibly irreplacable) items.
I especially would never play a game where another PLAYER could put me in that position without my consent.
From TFA: Unlike EQ, you will be able to carry multiple sets of gear in your horse's saddlebags (different horses can hold more stuff or move faster than their counterparts) and your body won't decay as long as it has at least one item on it. So you won't have to head into the dungeon virtually naked.
Prof. Bialystok first noticed bilingual children were proficient in blocking out irrelevant information about 20 years ago. When asked to identify a grammatically correct sentence, for example, both bilinguals and monolinguals are, by age 5, able to choose, "Apples grow on trees," over "Apple trees on grow" as the correct one.
But when it came to asking "Apples grow on noses" versus "Apples nose on grow," only the bilingual children were able to choose the right answer. Although the first sentence is grammatically correct, monolingual children could not get over its silliness. "That's crazy," they'd shout, "You can't say that!"
Maybe this is good, maybe not. If this is training people to move on and solve the problem, even though they understand that there is a problem with the validity of the sentence, then it is a good thing. On the other hand, if they are able to do better because don't even notice the problem, then maybe it's not so good. I've seen plenty of times where everyone's so focused on solving a problem that they don't realize they're solving the wrong problem.
Too bad politicians can score big points on the cheap with their constituents by speaking out in favor of importing drugs from other countries where the cost is cheaper. Pharma could donate the drugs to developing nations that can't afford the drugs anyway as long as it knows it can still sell them at the high price here in the States where we can afford it and in other developed nations to make back their R+D money.
But so long as everyone keeps whining about how little prescription drugs cost in other countries, selling drugs at discounted prices and/or giving them away in other countries ruins Pharma's chance to develop new drugs.
I know, I know, people can't live without their home theater systems and fancy cars...
Turn your hot water heat setting as cool as you are comfortable with. (Experiment a bit so you don't end up shorting the poor SOB who's last into the shower.:)
Actually, that's a pretty interesting idea... Has anyone released a water heater with a thermostat and some way to monitor its status--current reserve, temperature?
I agree with the ammo... People manage to keep track in real life and the movies fine without any HUD telling them how much ammo they have. Or, they lose track and it makes it more dramatic... I mean, Dirty Harry just wouldn't be as cool with a little ammo gauge on his gun.
Maybe it's because they're the same party. They make such a big deal over their commitments, but when it comes down to it, they all vote together. Patriot Act? REAL ID? To me the issues barely matter. Just don't be corrupt and make serving the people more important than your political career or the special favors lobbies want to do for you and I don't really care what your stance is on ridiculous issues you will have no control over. Just do the right thing. Everything else pales in comparison.
I think the whole point is that saying "I told you so" is not helpful in any way (except to boost the speaker's sense of superiority). And a fatalistic attitude often ignores solutions that could be found.
Oh, now I think I understand what you're saying... They're making a big deal about this thing so that people will be willing to shell out way more than this new technology is actually costing them?
Suppose they're right about Blu-ray. It takes off, even though Blu-Ray players drop say, half the price from $1800 to $900. Now the PS3 looks like a steal, right? What happens when people start buying PS3s just for Blu-ray players? Sure Sony can say we have over X million consoles in homes... but if only half of those owners actually end up buying more than one or two games a year, I think game manufacturers will catch on pretty quick. Installation of PS3s isn't the only thing Sony and its developers want... the people have to want to buy games too...
What about the difference in manufacturing cost between DVD and VHS? DVDs are still making the transition to replace CDs, though they have largely replaced VHS.
Right, conceptually, I feel like the biggest difficulty in time travel is the time that passes for people in the planetary frames of reference. Sure we may be able to travel hundreds of lightyears away at a speed which will make it seem as if very little time has passed for us, but won't hundreds of years have passed for the planets in the meantime? If you leave your wife and kids at home and go off on an exploratory mission that takes up 5 years in the ship's inertial frame, will you be able to return to them, or will you return and have your grandchildren be older than you are?
This isn't really so much putting their monopoly to use as much as it is putting their barrels and barrels of cash into play. Heavy handed, but exactly illegal.
Right, we should get rid of the oppressive goverment regulation that prevents us from driving any direction we please on either side of the double yellow line...
Government regulation isn't always bad, though it may be often bad. However, economically speaking, when there are negative externalities, that is, the cost of some people's choices are deferring a cost on others, government regulation is beneficial. (I speak here of compromised PCs that are used as vectors to spread viruses and etc.) Perhaps people could retain a right to run unprotected machines, but could be fined for negligence if it leads to their machines spreading malicious software?
Re: Atheism as belief. In your definition any statement I can make is a belief - like "The sky is not green". Is this a "belief"?
I guess... If you held it to be true enough to act upon it.
I guess I would define free will as the ability to choose to attempt to do anything. It seems to me that for a person to be able to do this he or she would have to somehow control some variable in the laws of nature.
That's fair. You have a right to choose not to care, if you don't care. My claim was simply that to say "Since I don't care, it's wrong to care" or "All those religions that care are the same, regardless of what it is they happen to care about" is neither fair nor logical.
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-USB drive caching (SuperFetch)--USB drives are fairly fast right now. Joe Sixpack won't care
No, but he might care that his flash drive's life is cut in half because its limited number of rewrites is being used up whenever it's in the computer.
(BTW, the caching is not to speed up USB drives, it's to speed up the system)
Can anyone come up with a good reason why we rely on separate companies, who have a vested interest in there being dangerous virii out in the open so that people will buy their software? Why don't we hold the OS makers, who have a vested interest in their OS being free from these sorts of threats accountable for either eliminating vulnerabilities or providing their own anti virus software, as an integral part of the operating system? The only other source that could possibly be reliable would be the OSS community, which wouldn't be getting any money for the increase of users installing anti-malware software.
Not really, just get a tuner card + MythTV...
What is he, crazy?
Hasn't he ever heard of magnetic therapy?
GP's complaint was that he *had* to stay up an extra hour because otherwise his corpse (and gear) would decay.
because a mistake could mean I either stay up an hour or two later and retrieve my corpse, or let it evaporate and cripple my character by destroying (possibly irreplacable) items.
I especially would never play a game where another PLAYER could put me in that position without my consent.
From TFA: Unlike EQ, you will be able to carry multiple sets of gear in your horse's saddlebags (different horses can hold more stuff or move faster than their counterparts) and your body won't decay as long as it has at least one item on it. So you won't have to head into the dungeon virtually naked.
Prof. Bialystok first noticed bilingual children were proficient in blocking out irrelevant information about 20 years ago. When asked to identify a grammatically correct sentence, for example, both bilinguals and monolinguals are, by age 5, able to choose, "Apples grow on trees," over "Apple trees on grow" as the correct one. But when it came to asking "Apples grow on noses" versus "Apples nose on grow," only the bilingual children were able to choose the right answer. Although the first sentence is grammatically correct, monolingual children could not get over its silliness. "That's crazy," they'd shout, "You can't say that!"
Maybe this is good, maybe not. If this is training people to move on and solve the problem, even though they understand that there is a problem with the validity of the sentence, then it is a good thing. On the other hand, if they are able to do better because don't even notice the problem, then maybe it's not so good. I've seen plenty of times where everyone's so focused on solving a problem that they don't realize they're solving the wrong problem.
You might not need to worry about shielding so much if you have an antigravitational beam in front of your craft...
Too bad politicians can score big points on the cheap with their constituents by speaking out in favor of importing drugs from other countries where the cost is cheaper. Pharma could donate the drugs to developing nations that can't afford the drugs anyway as long as it knows it can still sell them at the high price here in the States where we can afford it and in other developed nations to make back their R+D money.
But so long as everyone keeps whining about how little prescription drugs cost in other countries, selling drugs at discounted prices and/or giving them away in other countries ruins Pharma's chance to develop new drugs.
I know, I know, people can't live without their home theater systems and fancy cars...
I can't believe OP missed (IMO) the coolest part of the grand prize...
Apple will create a full-ride scholarship in your name to a world-renowned music school.
Classy.
Turn your hot water heat setting as cool as you are comfortable with. (Experiment a bit so you don't end up shorting the poor SOB who's last into the shower. :)
Actually, that's a pretty interesting idea... Has anyone released a water heater with a thermostat and some way to monitor its status--current reserve, temperature?
Plus, uh, isn't freezing an exothermic process?
I agree with the ammo... People manage to keep track in real life and the movies fine without any HUD telling them how much ammo they have. Or, they lose track and it makes it more dramatic... I mean, Dirty Harry just wouldn't be as cool with a little ammo gauge on his gun.
Well, do ya, punk?
Lawyer: "When's the last time you used a computer?"
Ms. Lindor: "Actually, I've never used one in my life."
RIAA Lawyer: "OBJECTION, relevance!"
Really? You don't say.
Maybe it's because they're the same party. They make such a big deal over their commitments, but when it comes down to it, they all vote together. Patriot Act? REAL ID? To me the issues barely matter. Just don't be corrupt and make serving the people more important than your political career or the special favors lobbies want to do for you and I don't really care what your stance is on ridiculous issues you will have no control over. Just do the right thing. Everything else pales in comparison.
I think the whole point is that saying "I told you so" is not helpful in any way (except to boost the speaker's sense of superiority). And a fatalistic attitude often ignores solutions that could be found.
Oh, now I think I understand what you're saying... They're making a big deal about this thing so that people will be willing to shell out way more than this new technology is actually costing them?
Suppose they're right about Blu-ray. It takes off, even though Blu-Ray players drop say, half the price from $1800 to $900. Now the PS3 looks like a steal, right? What happens when people start buying PS3s just for Blu-ray players? Sure Sony can say we have over X million consoles in homes... but if only half of those owners actually end up buying more than one or two games a year, I think game manufacturers will catch on pretty quick. Installation of PS3s isn't the only thing Sony and its developers want... the people have to want to buy games too...
What about the difference in manufacturing cost between DVD and VHS? DVDs are still making the transition to replace CDs, though they have largely replaced VHS.
Cost also factors into what parts are included in the unit. There's not just one cost of production per unit. It's also a variable.
Right, conceptually, I feel like the biggest difficulty in time travel is the time that passes for people in the planetary frames of reference. Sure we may be able to travel hundreds of lightyears away at a speed which will make it seem as if very little time has passed for us, but won't hundreds of years have passed for the planets in the meantime? If you leave your wife and kids at home and go off on an exploratory mission that takes up 5 years in the ship's inertial frame, will you be able to return to them, or will you return and have your grandchildren be older than you are?
This isn't really so much putting their monopoly to use as much as it is putting their barrels and barrels of cash into play. Heavy handed, but exactly illegal.
Government regulation is always a bad thing.
Right, we should get rid of the oppressive goverment regulation that prevents us from driving any direction we please on either side of the double yellow line...
Government regulation isn't always bad, though it may be often bad. However, economically speaking, when there are negative externalities, that is, the cost of some people's choices are deferring a cost on others, government regulation is beneficial. (I speak here of compromised PCs that are used as vectors to spread viruses and etc.) Perhaps people could retain a right to run unprotected machines, but could be fined for negligence if it leads to their machines spreading malicious software?
Re: Atheism as belief. In your definition any statement I can make is a belief - like "The sky is not green". Is this a "belief"?
I guess... If you held it to be true enough to act upon it.
I guess I would define free will as the ability to choose to attempt to do anything. It seems to me that for a person to be able to do this he or she would have to somehow control some variable in the laws of nature.
That's fair. You have a right to choose not to care, if you don't care. My claim was simply that to say "Since I don't care, it's wrong to care" or "All those religions that care are the same, regardless of what it is they happen to care about" is neither fair nor logical.