It's ridiculous the information they can store about me and then turn around and charge ME to look at it more than once a year. And my credit score, that should be free for me to view as well.
This has its own problems: if you've got unlimited access to your credit report, anyone else who wants to see it (say, the bank you're applying to for the loan) will ask you to provide it rather than paying the credit bureau. At this point, their business model collapses.
The Geocities ads were why I started running the Proxomitron as my ad filter in the first place. Amazingly, even without updates it's gotten more effective over time: since its Javascript ad filter is fairly broad, and everyone uses Javascript to serve ads these days, I couldn't tell you how much advertising the typical Myspacer or Facebook page has.
(I couldn't have used AdBlock instead: this predates Phoenix itself, much less the addons that have made it popular.)
The worst thing about IX is the bleeping Playonline integration in the strategy guide. Followed by non-fun Tetra Master (not as much fun as FFVIII's Triple Triad), and the fact that the game seemed to be designed with the PS2's ability to Fast Load and Texture smooth PSone games. Load times on a PS1 are a litle on the slow side.
Guess it's a good thing I waited so long to play it, then. The guides on GameFAQs were well-developed, ripping the discs to RAM beats anything the PS2 could do for load times, emulators could scale the graphics to 2048x1536 while still looking good, and savestates mean you avoid the annoyances of save points. FFIX was one of my favorites.
Looking at my website stats, at least 25% of my visitors are running operating systems that Firefox 3.5 won't support. I say "at least" because the stats don't distinguish between XP service packs; my suspicion is that the actual number is closer to 75% (ie. most people haven't upgraded from XP SP2 to SP3). I know that every single one of the "boneheads" is running a recent version of Firefox.
That clause seems to be written specially for Wikipedia:
Actually, it's written for Wikipedia and all wikis that went with GFDL for Wikipedia compatibility -- the idea is to get everyone shifted over to a more appropriate license. The "August 1, 2009 or earlier" clause is there to prevent license-washing of GFDL content: you can't, for example, use the GFDL 1.3 to put the Emacs manual up on a wiki and then re-license it as CC-BY-SA.
A typical streamlined EV, like the Volt, the MiEV, or the Roadster, will use about 200Wh/mi. Let's go with 220Wh/mi wall to wheels, since some is lost in charging. Let's assume a very efficient panel (20% *after* accounting for the cells not all fitting perfectly together) and a large, flat area (2' x 4' ~= 0.74 square meters). Let's say that it's perfectly sunny (1000W/m^2), there's no shade, and let's be optimistic and say that the cosine-weighted average angle of the sun to your car is 50 degrees over the course of a 9 hour work day. Ready? 1000W/m^2 * 0.74m^2 * cos(50 degrees) * 20% efficiency * 9 hours / (220Wh/mi) = 3.9 miles.
You're being overly pessimstic about the available area. My Honda Civic (a relatively small car) is 14 feet long by 5 feet wide, for about 6.5 square meters of footprint. Assuming I'm carrying a foldable solar array with a suitable support frame, that gives me 35 miles. Since it's on a support frame rather than embedded into the roof, I could tilt the frame to get a better angle (say, a weighted average of 35 degrees): 44 miles.
A mismatch at the third level of the domain name is probably a configuration screw-up on Capital One's part. It shouldn't be possible for a third party to get a certificate for a capitalone.com subdomain.
If, however, somebody did get a certificate for onlinebanking.capitalone.com, then Capital One's only defense is to change the subdomain they use and hope that people who've been hit by a DNS poisoning or other man-in-the-middle attack pay attention to the certificate mismatch.
Sounds like you want a Pentax K20D or K200D. Other than the lack of a digital compass and the use of serial-numbered filenames, they meet every one of your criteria.
The guy's point was that they could make a system that is easier to develop for at the cost of longevity. In short he is saying to get a 10 year lifespan Sony had to go with something like the Cell and it's 8 SPE's. It is harder to develop for than one core but the payoff over time is worth it. Developers (myself included) are being pushed now to a different style of development and the days of more GHZ every year or so are over. The days of more cores/SPE's are here to stay.
You're missing a key point here: the Xbox 360 is a traditional symmetric multiprocessing system. The techniques for programming on this sort of hardware have about half a century of development behind them, which someone targeting the 360 can leverage. In contrast, the PS3's Cell+SPEs is an asymmetric multiprocessing system. There's no institutional knowlege on how best to use it, so programmers need to figure it out as they go along.
Trees can be replaced easily. Forest ecosystems can't. If we use fewer trees, we can let some tree farms begin the slow, slow process of returning to being actual forests.
I drive past a tree farm on a regular basis. If it were shut down, it wouldn't return to forest. It would return to semi-desert scrubland. The only reason there's a tree farm there is because it's just up the hill from the fourth-largest river in the United States. Most places where trees are farmed for paper are like this: take a chunk of cheap land with good irrigation, plant a bunch of fast-growing trees, and harvest them every 15 years or so.
Trees farmed for lumber are different: since they grow slowly and need to be larger to produce worthwhile products, they're usually grown in places where trees would naturally grow.
Actually, it does need to be infinite, at least over time. Nebraska et al. are busy using up a finite water supply (the Ogallala Aquifer). When that's gone, large parts of the Great Plains will cease being prime farmland, and go back to being "the Great American Desert".
It's easy to tell a sub-Saharan African from a Scandinavian, but the majority of humans are medium brown. Try getting a computer to tell an Arab from a Vietnamese from a Native American.
They're storing data in a small space, sure, but it's got the same problem that traditional holograms do: it takes a good deal of computation time to figure out how to encode the information you want in wave patterns.
Rather than looking for a third party to pay for the service of filtering Pandora ads for you, why not just subscribe to Pandora? It's $36 a year. That's $3 a month. You can afford it.
I would, but they don't have a secure subscription page. They claim that the pretty orange padlock icon they draw in the flash player is proof that the connection is secure.
That would quickly become a not-at-all-cool MMO. The problem it has is that it's vulnerable to griefers.
I've been working on solving this. The key is to have the game world react to griefing in ways that make it futile or counterproductive. Buy up all the coal in a mining town? The income causes the town to grow to increase production. Kill a civilian? You get a reputation as a murderer, the authorities will put a bounty on your head, town guards will attack you on sight, and no merchant will do business with you.
The other technique that looks like it might work is to make the world big enough. If a griefer is an hour away by airship, does it really matter what he's doing?
Imagine how much more we could have accomplished by using robot probes instead of wasting money on primitive systems like the Space Shuttle. We could send robot after robot after robot and leave the tourists at home for a few decades.
Imagine how much more we could have accomplished by sending a trained geologist. The data collection done by both rovers over the course of five years is about as much as a single grad student could do in a week.
Is it yet ready for use on Sun hardware? As of six months ago, if you had a Sparc-based system without an OS, you'd be much better off installing Linux or *BSD on it.
That's not true, I run swappiness at 0 and have never had that happen. My swap file is actually still irritatingly busy (w/512mb of ram).
Try increasing swappiness a bit. Your system is far more responsive with a little bit of RAM available for caching. In my experience, you want at least 5MB for a console-only system, 25MB for an XFCE-based GUI, and 75MB for a KDE-based GUI. I don't know what Gnome wants.
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That would kill the business even faster. Providing information to a credit bureau is of absolutely no value to the provider, so why should they pay?
This has its own problems: if you've got unlimited access to your credit report, anyone else who wants to see it (say, the bank you're applying to for the loan) will ask you to provide it rather than paying the credit bureau. At this point, their business model collapses.
The Geocities ads were why I started running the Proxomitron as my ad filter in the first place. Amazingly, even without updates it's gotten more effective over time: since its Javascript ad filter is fairly broad, and everyone uses Javascript to serve ads these days, I couldn't tell you how much advertising the typical Myspacer or Facebook page has.
(I couldn't have used AdBlock instead: this predates Phoenix itself, much less the addons that have made it popular.)
VIII was a good game, but there wasn't enough stylistic continuity with the others to justify calling it a Final Fantasy game.
Guess it's a good thing I waited so long to play it, then. The guides on GameFAQs were well-developed, ripping the discs to RAM beats anything the PS2 could do for load times, emulators could scale the graphics to 2048x1536 while still looking good, and savestates mean you avoid the annoyances of save points. FFIX was one of my favorites.
Looking at my website stats, at least 25% of my visitors are running operating systems that Firefox 3.5 won't support. I say "at least" because the stats don't distinguish between XP service packs; my suspicion is that the actual number is closer to 75% (ie. most people haven't upgraded from XP SP2 to SP3). I know that every single one of the "boneheads" is running a recent version of Firefox.
Actually, it's written for Wikipedia and all wikis that went with GFDL for Wikipedia compatibility -- the idea is to get everyone shifted over to a more appropriate license. The "August 1, 2009 or earlier" clause is there to prevent license-washing of GFDL content: you can't, for example, use the GFDL 1.3 to put the Emacs manual up on a wiki and then re-license it as CC-BY-SA.
You're being overly pessimstic about the available area. My Honda Civic (a relatively small car) is 14 feet long by 5 feet wide, for about 6.5 square meters of footprint. Assuming I'm carrying a foldable solar array with a suitable support frame, that gives me 35 miles. Since it's on a support frame rather than embedded into the roof, I could tilt the frame to get a better angle (say, a weighted average of 35 degrees): 44 miles.
You mean the constant dupes and bad summaries aren't enough?
A mismatch at the third level of the domain name is probably a configuration screw-up on Capital One's part. It shouldn't be possible for a third party to get a certificate for a capitalone.com subdomain.
If, however, somebody did get a certificate for onlinebanking.capitalone.com, then Capital One's only defense is to change the subdomain they use and hope that people who've been hit by a DNS poisoning or other man-in-the-middle attack pay attention to the certificate mismatch.
Sounds like you want a Pentax K20D or K200D. Other than the lack of a digital compass and the use of serial-numbered filenames, they meet every one of your criteria.
Throttling streaming video is so nonsensical that my personal suspicion is PEBCAK or an ID10T error.
You're missing a key point here: the Xbox 360 is a traditional symmetric multiprocessing system. The techniques for programming on this sort of hardware have about half a century of development behind them, which someone targeting the 360 can leverage. In contrast, the PS3's Cell+SPEs is an asymmetric multiprocessing system. There's no institutional knowlege on how best to use it, so programmers need to figure it out as they go along.
I drive past a tree farm on a regular basis. If it were shut down, it wouldn't return to forest. It would return to semi-desert scrubland. The only reason there's a tree farm there is because it's just up the hill from the fourth-largest river in the United States. Most places where trees are farmed for paper are like this: take a chunk of cheap land with good irrigation, plant a bunch of fast-growing trees, and harvest them every 15 years or so.
Trees farmed for lumber are different: since they grow slowly and need to be larger to produce worthwhile products, they're usually grown in places where trees would naturally grow.
Actually, it does need to be infinite, at least over time. Nebraska et al. are busy using up a finite water supply (the Ogallala Aquifer). When that's gone, large parts of the Great Plains will cease being prime farmland, and go back to being "the Great American Desert".
That's nice. I've got a netbook. Where's the SODIMM socket?
It's easy to tell a sub-Saharan African from a Scandinavian, but the majority of humans are medium brown. Try getting a computer to tell an Arab from a Vietnamese from a Native American.
They're storing data in a small space, sure, but it's got the same problem that traditional holograms do: it takes a good deal of computation time to figure out how to encode the information you want in wave patterns.
I would, but they don't have a secure subscription page. They claim that the pretty orange padlock icon they draw in the flash player is proof that the connection is secure.
OpenBSD seems to be averaging one patch every month and a half, and they've only issued two critical patches in ten years.
I've been working on solving this. The key is to have the game world react to griefing in ways that make it futile or counterproductive. Buy up all the coal in a mining town? The income causes the town to grow to increase production. Kill a civilian? You get a reputation as a murderer, the authorities will put a bounty on your head, town guards will attack you on sight, and no merchant will do business with you.
The other technique that looks like it might work is to make the world big enough. If a griefer is an hour away by airship, does it really matter what he's doing?
Imagine how much more we could have accomplished by sending a trained geologist. The data collection done by both rovers over the course of five years is about as much as a single grad student could do in a week.
This step is the hard part: I'm not aware of any FTP server that provides the ability to run arbitrary executables.
Is it yet ready for use on Sun hardware? As of six months ago, if you had a Sparc-based system without an OS, you'd be much better off installing Linux or *BSD on it.
Try increasing swappiness a bit. Your system is far more responsive with a little bit of RAM available for caching. In my experience, you want at least 5MB for a console-only system, 25MB for an XFCE-based GUI, and 75MB for a KDE-based GUI. I don't know what Gnome wants.