On this particular Windows 2000 box, leaving a webpage open for a minute or two (Chicago Tribune in particular, but it just happened in Gmail) suddenly causes Firefox 3.0 to suck up memory at an incredible rate (3-4 MB per second) up to 650 MB. The first time required a reboot, and I've had to kill the process three times since. This never happened in 2.0, and I'm posting from 2.0 right now. Maybe I'll wait for the RC version.
If you call up GOOG-411 for free (compared to the ripoff that is cell phone carriers 411 at $1.75 a pop), it always asks you for the city and state first. Sometimes the city and state are easy to parse, like "Reno" or "Keokuk". Sometimes it's not, like "Glen Ellyn, Illinois" (and the other one I've tried, Glenallen, Alaska). If you mumble, your voice is otherwise hard to parse, or the city is obscure, GOOG-411 will take about 3 seconds to figure what the hell you're saying, which is when it'll play this sound.
Same thing with the business name - if you say something like "Restaurant", that's easily parsed, but if you say something specific like "Bed Bath and Beyond", it could take up to 3 seconds to parse, search for, and find your match. You'll hear the sound, and then the list of results.
I don't know why the Johnny Carson theme (or similar) could have sufficed, because the sounded reminded me of logging onto AOL at 56.6 Kbps. Or make up a Google Jingle or something.
I use GOOG-411 at least once a week nowadays, and the feature to text message you details of what you're looking for has proven (mostly) invaluable while I've used it. There's the problem that sometimes, Google's information on businesses just isn't up to date. But that's a Google-wide issue.
Miyamoto: Anyway, we had a lot of people play the game, and we observed them, had them write about their impressions, things like that. I analysed those reports as I read them, noting things like how people might have written "It was fun," but they didn't look like they were having fun...
As an Asian, I would just like to note that that is so Asian...
The way I've seen the folks in Detroit treat the concept of an electric car, and the consumers in America respond to buying one, the future of the electric car is far more likely to be in places like Kyoto, Tokyo, and Shanghai.
(Our next car will most likely be an electric/hybrid RAV-4 or CR-V.)
1.) Provide each astronaut a handgun of personal choice 2.) Place astronauts back-to-back in the center of the longest capsule on board 3.) If velcro boots are provided, order each astronaut to take ten steps toward the edge of the capsule. If not, approximate 10 seconds of floating in opposite directions before turning and firing. 4.) In the event the space station is still intact and both parties are still alive, review tape footage and declare the astronaut with the most matrix-like moves the winner.
Slightly on topic, I heard a story last night on NPR (Marketplace) that there is a dearth of taxis in Paris due to heavy amounts of congestion. (There's some irony in that, I know.) It may just be that congestion has to reach unfathomably bad levels in the U.S. for people to even consider public transportation.
It also doesn't help that Chicagoland's public transportation specifically is chronically underfunded and mismanaged.
I don't watch NASCAR, but the automobiles are technologically sophisticated. They cost $125,000 to build, and because there's so much money in it, are the result of the most expensive, top-notch engineering you can find in racing.[1]
The problem isn't the lack of engineering - nowadays it's the overengineering. NASCAR has issued millions in dollars in fines to teams that have cheated (to different extents) in order to gain performance enhancements on other teams. In some areas of racing, the equivalent of drag plates are required to be placed on cars so that they all can be slowed down (uniformly) for a more competitive race.
Not true; if in excess of $5,000 of damage has been done to a company/individual via computer crime, the FBI will investigate. This is from an FBI security seminar I attended in 2002, though, so it may be dated information.
I'm well within the Chicago metropolitan area, and have exactly his options.
AT&T has tried to sneak in some fiber into the area (Project Lightspeed), but continues to run into problems with deals local governments sign with Comcast. Namely, a $300k fee that villages charge new service providers and the requirement that telecom companies provide some sort of local service (i.e., local government access channels). AT&T says they're a utility and shouldn't have to pay that fee.
If Motorola's WiMAX manages to do something, they may be an option in the mid-term future. I'm not holding my breath.
Things like undular bore waves are part of the reason why severe weather on a small scale will continue to be difficult (if not impossible) to predict for the foreseeable future. We have a better than ever handle on what's happening at the time, which is enough to give people 15-20 minutes warning ahead of time for severe weather and tornadoes (and has undoubtedly saved thousands of lives since the mid 1940s, when tornado warnings started to be issued).
But it is still well beyond any computer model in existence to predict specific features more than an hour in advance (the best that can be done is to issue broad-scale "there is a significant chance something will happen somewhere in this region" alerts). Which is why it will be ever more interesting to see how the National Weather Service integrates tomorrow's technology into their forecasts.:-D
What happened with Rare? I remember when Nintendo announced that it had let Rare go from 2nd party Nintendo developer to Microsoft exclusive developer. I figured that would be the "white flag" moment for Nintendo.
They took with them the underrated Conker's Bad Fur Day series, anything Perfect Dark, Banjo-Kazooie (I think)... arguably the best games development studio behind Nintendo itself. What happened?
As a roads contributor, I'd like the opportunity to say that somewhere, somehow, State Route 73 is notable and important in a lot of peoples' lives, for a lot more years the the Internet was around.:-D
I have no idea where this is from, because the quote was IM'd to me, so it'll have to go unattributed for now. But I think it's appropriate:
I guess these are endangered. I dunno... seems strange to say endangered when everything is endangered. I like to say they are losing the Darwin race, but people that are really into endangered stuff don't like to hear that.
Oh, I don't know... Out here in the real world, the iPhone price drop to $299 is making everyone go insane with low-price giddiness, and my wife has declare the iPod Nano really cute; if she didn't already have a pink shuffle, she'd get a blue nano.
Since mentalities like that tend to drive sales... it sounds like Apple has met its reality distortion goals for this quarter.
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On this particular Windows 2000 box, leaving a webpage open for a minute or two (Chicago Tribune in particular, but it just happened in Gmail) suddenly causes Firefox 3.0 to suck up memory at an incredible rate (3-4 MB per second) up to 650 MB. The first time required a reboot, and I've had to kill the process three times since. This never happened in 2.0, and I'm posting from 2.0 right now. Maybe I'll wait for the RC version.
If you call up GOOG-411 for free (compared to the ripoff that is cell phone carriers 411 at $1.75 a pop), it always asks you for the city and state first. Sometimes the city and state are easy to parse, like "Reno" or "Keokuk". Sometimes it's not, like "Glen Ellyn, Illinois" (and the other one I've tried, Glenallen, Alaska). If you mumble, your voice is otherwise hard to parse, or the city is obscure, GOOG-411 will take about 3 seconds to figure what the hell you're saying, which is when it'll play this sound.
Same thing with the business name - if you say something like "Restaurant", that's easily parsed, but if you say something specific like "Bed Bath and Beyond", it could take up to 3 seconds to parse, search for, and find your match. You'll hear the sound, and then the list of results.
I don't know why the Johnny Carson theme (or similar) could have sufficed, because the sounded reminded me of logging onto AOL at 56.6 Kbps. Or make up a Google Jingle or something.
I use GOOG-411 at least once a week nowadays, and the feature to text message you details of what you're looking for has proven (mostly) invaluable while I've used it. There's the problem that sometimes, Google's information on businesses just isn't up to date. But that's a Google-wide issue.
As an Asian, I would just like to note that that is so Asian...
The way I've seen the folks in Detroit treat the concept of an electric car, and the consumers in America respond to buying one, the future of the electric car is far more likely to be in places like Kyoto, Tokyo, and Shanghai.
(Our next car will most likely be an electric/hybrid RAV-4 or CR-V.)
1.) Provide each astronaut a handgun of personal choice
2.) Place astronauts back-to-back in the center of the longest capsule on board
3.) If velcro boots are provided, order each astronaut to take ten steps toward the edge of the capsule. If not, approximate 10 seconds of floating in opposite directions before turning and firing.
4.) In the event the space station is still intact and both parties are still alive, review tape footage and declare the astronaut with the most matrix-like moves the winner.
The triple jump just got a lot more entertaining. :-D
Slightly on topic, I heard a story last night on NPR (Marketplace) that there is a dearth of taxis in Paris due to heavy amounts of congestion. (There's some irony in that, I know.) It may just be that congestion has to reach unfathomably bad levels in the U.S. for people to even consider public transportation. It also doesn't help that Chicagoland's public transportation specifically is chronically underfunded and mismanaged.
I don't watch NASCAR, but the automobiles are technologically sophisticated. They cost $125,000 to build, and because there's so much money in it, are the result of the most expensive, top-notch engineering you can find in racing.[1]
The problem isn't the lack of engineering - nowadays it's the overengineering. NASCAR has issued millions in dollars in fines to teams that have cheated (to different extents) in order to gain performance enhancements on other teams. In some areas of racing, the equivalent of drag plates are required to be placed on cars so that they all can be slowed down (uniformly) for a more competitive race.I agree, and give them a good amount of respect and props for getting as far as they did. This is serious science, after all.
But it's a little like NASCAR and ice skating — you're wondering when the crashes will start. And when people will have fun with the YouTube footage.
Not true; if in excess of $5,000 of damage has been done to a company/individual via computer crime, the FBI will investigate. This is from an FBI security seminar I attended in 2002, though, so it may be dated information.
More models. Preferably the hot female variety. If they happen to look elvish, all the better!
I'm well within the Chicago metropolitan area, and have exactly his options.
AT&T has tried to sneak in some fiber into the area (Project Lightspeed), but continues to run into problems with deals local governments sign with Comcast. Namely, a $300k fee that villages charge new service providers and the requirement that telecom companies provide some sort of local service (i.e., local government access channels). AT&T says they're a utility and shouldn't have to pay that fee.
If Motorola's WiMAX manages to do something, they may be an option in the mid-term future. I'm not holding my breath.
Things like undular bore waves are part of the reason why severe weather on a small scale will continue to be difficult (if not impossible) to predict for the foreseeable future. We have a better than ever handle on what's happening at the time, which is enough to give people 15-20 minutes warning ahead of time for severe weather and tornadoes (and has undoubtedly saved thousands of lives since the mid 1940s, when tornado warnings started to be issued).
:-D
But it is still well beyond any computer model in existence to predict specific features more than an hour in advance (the best that can be done is to issue broad-scale "there is a significant chance something will happen somewhere in this region" alerts). Which is why it will be ever more interesting to see how the National Weather Service integrates tomorrow's technology into their forecasts.
Let's see... it's 2007... will this be the Street Fighter: Retirement Home edition?
What happened with Rare? I remember when Nintendo announced that it had let Rare go from 2nd party Nintendo developer to Microsoft exclusive developer. I figured that would be the "white flag" moment for Nintendo.
They took with them the underrated Conker's Bad Fur Day series, anything Perfect Dark, Banjo-Kazooie (I think)... arguably the best games development studio behind Nintendo itself. What happened?
True. It should be "ICANN Hippopotamus Multilingual URLs".
As a roads contributor, I'd like the opportunity to say that somewhere, somehow, State Route 73 is notable and important in a lot of peoples' lives, for a lot more years the the Internet was around. :-D
Gives a new meaning to the term "stack dump". I myself am currently suffering from a stop error. :-(
Sheesh. It seems like everyone's cashing in on the mini/nano/slim name these days. More power to them; people are buying.
Me personally, I'm waiting for the PSP Ocular w/ embedded rootkit!
Oh, I don't know... Out here in the real world, the iPhone price drop to $299 is making everyone go insane with low-price giddiness, and my wife has declare the iPod Nano really cute; if she didn't already have a pink shuffle, she'd get a blue nano.
Since mentalities like that tend to drive sales... it sounds like Apple has met its reality distortion goals for this quarter.
Heh. And DriveSpace was the death knell for my 500 MB hard drive when I was poking around in DOSShell...
What is this 478 MB file doing on my F drive? I need to get rid of it. <reboot> Oh crap...
You could boot up Doom II and type in IDCLIP, but somehow I don't think that would quite have the effect you were looking for.
Well... okay. That was a short article.
I'm not expecting them to try Lynx or anything, but at least test Safari on Windows? The one that also claims to be fast?
They still have them in most stores, (sometimes in addition to self-checkouts). It's probably easier to steal stuff if you just have self-checkouts.