I wonder, if they start doing more and more extensive tests, could they eventually determine the household in which the drugs come from? What's preventing them from testing the sewer water directly out of a house, instead of a waste plant.
Will there be a need for sewer search warrants in the future? Hmm...
Actually, they have invalidated your entire contract by raising the rates and are thus asking you to agree to a new contract with increased rates. However, they already stated in the old contract that such agreements can be made by paying a bill.
So, for practical reasons, this is a good thing; that means you get to cancel without an early termination fee and switch to a provider that can provide you services for a price you can agree on.
You are simply misinterpreting the implications. What they're saying is: we're raising rates, pay if you agree; cancel service if you don't.
You'll get used to it after working for a bit in such an environment. As long as you stay in the datacenter for about 8hr/day, you should be able to adjust without a problem.
i used to live up high in the mountains in a place where the oxygen level is about 7000ft. Once you get used to it, it feels no different than at sea level. Of course, your first few days may really suck.
What if MySpace simply decides to not do business in Connecticut (as in, have no office nor servers there). Can they enforce the $5000 fine? What if MySpace simply doesn't pay up? Connecticut isn't simply going to filter MySpace, is it?
I think it's just going to be like those Russian servers hosting warez. The stuff on there may not be allowed in many countries, but while it's in Russia, the only thing the US and European countries can seem to do is take action against the actual users.
Is this a way for Linden Labs (and possibly for others) to provide closed source scripts and objects? This seems to be a very possible thing with such technology.
What if someone only made available a compiled copy of something? It'd be scary if you can't tell what's really going on with all the stuff.
Oh boy, another waste of technology, and why does this not seem original?
If anything, it reminds me of the yellow dots some color laser printers would put on things.
Surely, the same tech won't be used to prevent digital pictures, etc. at places will it?
I remember when I got myself a TI-89 back in middle school and used it for a bit. It was nice to start with, but a few problems started surfacing later. In high school, my teachers complained that it was too powerful (as it can do algebra, a bit of calculus), and it was not allowed on many standardized tests. I ended up getting a TI-84+SE as a result of that. The main thing here is that some teachers won't allow a graphing calculator that is too powerful. That would basically be anything with a CAS. In order to make sure that you would be allowed to use your calculator, I'd recommend something among the lines of the TI-84s or TI-86s. The TI-83s are quite slow. I've had my TI-84+ SE, and it's been a versatile, fast (enough), and reliable calculator even throughout my multivariable Calculus class. As for physics -> it easily evaluated just about everything I need. Also, the despite having a low-resolution display, the text was big so I could easily read it.
Now, pushing the educational requirements aside... the TI-89s can do just about anything. It may be monochrome, but it can almost do my multivariable Calculus homework for me. It has a nice menu system, it can do stuff in pretty print (that is, the output is the same as if you would write it instead of in calculator notation), and it has a higher resolution than the TI-83's. However, I'd recommend that you wait for TI to release their TI N-Spire CAS if you really want something powerful. From the looks of it, it's going to do a lot more than the TI-89s.
From my experience, the TI calculators are very rugged and reliable. Despite looking limited, they do last a long time. I've thrown my TI's across the room and they've survived the impact. As you go on, you will find that you don't really need a calculator except for arithmetic (generally, you use it the most around Algebra 2).
As for the HP stuff - good luck trying to learn RPN. It may be better than the TIs at some applications, but for HS and college, the TIs tend to do the job better.
This is surely a tough upgrade. However, read the FreeBSD handbook section about updating the source tree, as well as the section on rebuilding world. It should give you a step-by-step guide on how to do a source upgrade (the easiest way to do a remote upgrade). Just ignore the stuff about single-user mode - it may be recommended, but it'll still work fine in multiuser if you are careful (eg. try not to have too much going on while doing the upgrade).
I suggest you go from 4.11 to 5.5 (RELENG_5_5) first, and then go from there to 6.2 (RELENG_6_2) just to be safe. It might be possible to go directly from 4.11 to 6.2, but doing such a big jump is an extremely risky process. In any case, I'd set up a test environment with something like vmplayer and experiment first before doing the actual update.
Many of the lists are just quite picky. If you take a look, most of the good ones are extremely hard to obtain. Of all the ones you could easily find, Ritek is probably one of the best of them (with the exception of Taiyo Yuden).
Their CDs come in about the quality of their DVD+RW's - that is, although they're not made to the quality of the best CDs, they rarely fail. Out of a spindle of 100 Ritek's, I get an average of about 2-3 coasters. Compare that with the average of 10-20 coasters per 100 of CMC's, or even more with the Moser Baer ones.
So, they're not that bad of a company. When comparing media that you could generally find anywhere, they're quite close to the top.
A GPS reciever is absolutely pointless in a mobile phone. The tracking support isn't actually in the phone itself, but rather built into the cell towers.
With 3 cell towers and a computer-based analysis on signal strength, the cell phone provider can determine the cell phone's coordinates to a degree higher than that of GPS. When you call 911, this info is simply sent to the police. It removes a complicated piece of hardware from the cell phone while recording position in a cheaper way. If you only have two towers, a general location of the phone is still possible, though there is going to be a slight doubt. Even with one tower, the info given is still useful to an extent - most towers don't cover large distances.
Because of that, there is actually no GPS reciever built into any mobile phone.
The requirements don't seem all that bad once you look at reality. Unless you build a very very sucky system, you're most likely to meet them.
About a year ago, I built a system optimized for running some simple 3d games on Linux, as well as having some nice compile times. Then, I take a look at the requirements and go through the checklist: apparently, if I sent my system in for Permium Certification, it would have gotten it. Plus, this system only costed me $600. Beta2 runs very smoothly on here.
The idea here is that most practical systems will be ready for the certification. You get a mid-end $50 video card to play Unreal Tournament 2004, and you find out that most of them are equipped with a HD output. As for the 1GB RAM - might not be as useful, but the prices are falling. 100mbit ethernet port and sound - most decent motherboards come with onboard components that meet the requirements.
Vista is simply stating: look, if you don't get a decent system, it won't run. If you see here, unless you're buying a system just for the very basic stuff, other needs will make you get a system with requirements that meet the features. As for the amount of resources it takes - hey, it's good use of all the hardware I paid for mainly just to run a game.
The main reason why I have a mobile is so that people can contact me while I'm on the go.
Anything else is extra and I probably don't need it. However, it does contribute to making the phone harder to use, easier to break (less reliable), and more expensive. Why would I want a device with everything in it as a cell phone when all I'm supposed to do is talk with it?
After all, if I want all the extra features, I'd probably go with a PDA anyways. A cell phone only does the job half decently, and the features are just things that I can accidently use and incur a higher phone bill. It's not easy to use all of them, and it just makes it harder to just simply dial a number and go.
Rather be carrying a compact digital camera, a real MP3 player, a real PDA if I really want all those features. After all, those do a way better job at it.
Their $500 for a gaming machine seriously fails it.
If you really go dealshopping, you can get a gaming computer with a case for about $500.
I'm already done with the price searching to build a new box for $500 with the following specs:
AMD Athlon64 3800+
Asus Socet754 Mobo (no, I will not be upgrading this rig ever!)
512MB RAM
300GB/16MB/7200RPM HD
One DVD-RW, one CD-RW
nVIDIA FX5700
It really works out quite well all for under $500. Definitely beats the one at THG, will be able to handle Doom3 and HL2 like a breeze. However, I'm mostly optimizing this for compiling stuff on Linux.
Assuming you use normal paper, couldn't you like destroy the set of dots by using a little bit of sandpaper or a bit of acid?
Also, if you print reprint a few unnoticable stuff on the page by flipping the page over and reprinting, wouldn't you effectively destroy the sequence?
Those people took until now to come up with this model?
I thought that's how time travel worked in that Japanese manga, Doraemon, which was created in the '70s.
Technically, using a P4 or an Athlon would still make the Starter Edition function the same. If they just block the processors, it just prevents companies from using their previous models existing if they usually only using P4's or Athlons. The Durons are slowly being phased out, and the Celerons would seriously hurt the performance.
If they allowed all processors, businesses won't be able to take advantages of it anyways. The limits just won't work out for any type of business, no matter how light. Even in schools and such, not even the home edition quite suffices.
Even with the low-end only limit, that's still not going to stop businesses and such from using the Starter Edition. Many corporations don't need the performance of the P4s and Athlons anyways, and thus opt for Celeron and Duron because they're cheaper.
Limiting the Starter Edition to the low-end systems will just limit the customers. Everyone would probably just look at it as a reason to just get a lower-end computer, and thus some new users might think twice before buying a system with the Starter Edition.
This idea completely works. I've had many friends that are new to computers. When I suggested them against a Dell or Sony Vaio, they just ended up with an old computer. I installed Linux on it, and they would usually learn very quickly and like it better than Windows for the fact it's a bit less stupid in some areas and also if you set it up right, it's actually more user friendly.
I've actually had converted many others that learn quickly once they find out that none of the dangerous viruses work on stuff other than Windows.
In some cases, the computing time may differ. Sometimes, a complex problem can take up to 10sec to solve on one CPU, while it immediately gets solved on another. There are differences between the CPUs, their speed and such, so unprevilaged people without good CPUs are at a disadvantage. Also, the time gives disadvantage to some people, especially for those the other side of the world. Some people would still be in school, and others will be forced to do it through night (eg. for me, it'd be from 3:00 AM to 8:00AM). In my opnion, this competition is not the least bit fair.
People should simply just call the cops when they spot that malware/spyware was putting illegal stuff on their box. They should clean it up the best they can, and get someone to investigate. This would get you in less trouble, as then, you have a defending point of informing authorities that your browser has been hijacked by malware/spyware. If the person inform authorities, it's just like not reporting a theft.
Actually, it might be more of the plugins. If you installed the wrong version of the Java plugin, and it has an error, it will crash Mozilla. This is because a line in the code will terminate Mozilla. This is only partially Mozilla's fault, but they could have just removed that terminate feature.
Even though this law may sound like its breaking privacy, it might not be that bad. If I were to start a cybercafe, I would anyways do the things in the chart for the safety of the cybercafe and to maintain order. If users don't like the idea, they don't go to that cybercafe. Who would want those bandwidth-hogging games anyways in their cybercafes? In fact, maybe cybercafes should be limited to web browsing, and no games.
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A true conservative would want the money to be used as a reason to cut taxes...
I wonder, if they start doing more and more extensive tests, could they eventually determine the household in which the drugs come from? What's preventing them from testing the sewer water directly out of a house, instead of a waste plant.
Will there be a need for sewer search warrants in the future? Hmm...
Actually, they have invalidated your entire contract by raising the rates and are thus asking you to agree to a new contract with increased rates. However, they already stated in the old contract that such agreements can be made by paying a bill. So, for practical reasons, this is a good thing; that means you get to cancel without an early termination fee and switch to a provider that can provide you services for a price you can agree on. You are simply misinterpreting the implications. What they're saying is: we're raising rates, pay if you agree; cancel service if you don't.
You'll get used to it after working for a bit in such an environment. As long as you stay in the datacenter for about 8hr/day, you should be able to adjust without a problem.
i used to live up high in the mountains in a place where the oxygen level is about 7000ft. Once you get used to it, it feels no different than at sea level. Of course, your first few days may really suck.
Is this even enforcible if it gets passed?
What if MySpace simply decides to not do business in Connecticut (as in, have no office nor servers there). Can they enforce the $5000 fine? What if MySpace simply doesn't pay up? Connecticut isn't simply going to filter MySpace, is it?
I think it's just going to be like those Russian servers hosting warez. The stuff on there may not be allowed in many countries, but while it's in Russia, the only thing the US and European countries can seem to do is take action against the actual users.
Is this a way for Linden Labs (and possibly for others) to provide closed source scripts and objects? This seems to be a very possible thing with such technology.
What if someone only made available a compiled copy of something? It'd be scary if you can't tell what's really going on with all the stuff.
Oh boy, another waste of technology, and why does this not seem original? If anything, it reminds me of the yellow dots some color laser printers would put on things. Surely, the same tech won't be used to prevent digital pictures, etc. at places will it?
IANAP, but a good guess would probably be absurdist?
:P
Maybe you don't have a personality. You're just a robot trapped inside a bag of meat.
I remember when I got myself a TI-89 back in middle school and used it for a bit. It was nice to start with, but a few problems started surfacing later. In high school, my teachers complained that it was too powerful (as it can do algebra, a bit of calculus), and it was not allowed on many standardized tests. I ended up getting a TI-84+SE as a result of that. The main thing here is that some teachers won't allow a graphing calculator that is too powerful. That would basically be anything with a CAS. In order to make sure that you would be allowed to use your calculator, I'd recommend something among the lines of the TI-84s or TI-86s. The TI-83s are quite slow. I've had my TI-84+ SE, and it's been a versatile, fast (enough), and reliable calculator even throughout my multivariable Calculus class. As for physics -> it easily evaluated just about everything I need. Also, the despite having a low-resolution display, the text was big so I could easily read it.
Now, pushing the educational requirements aside... the TI-89s can do just about anything. It may be monochrome, but it can almost do my multivariable Calculus homework for me. It has a nice menu system, it can do stuff in pretty print (that is, the output is the same as if you would write it instead of in calculator notation), and it has a higher resolution than the TI-83's. However, I'd recommend that you wait for TI to release their TI N-Spire CAS if you really want something powerful. From the looks of it, it's going to do a lot more than the TI-89s.
From my experience, the TI calculators are very rugged and reliable. Despite looking limited, they do last a long time. I've thrown my TI's across the room and they've survived the impact. As you go on, you will find that you don't really need a calculator except for arithmetic (generally, you use it the most around Algebra 2).
As for the HP stuff - good luck trying to learn RPN. It may be better than the TIs at some applications, but for HS and college, the TIs tend to do the job better.
This is surely a tough upgrade. However, read the FreeBSD handbook section about updating the source tree, as well as the section on rebuilding world. It should give you a step-by-step guide on how to do a source upgrade (the easiest way to do a remote upgrade). Just ignore the stuff about single-user mode - it may be recommended, but it'll still work fine in multiuser if you are careful (eg. try not to have too much going on while doing the upgrade).
I suggest you go from 4.11 to 5.5 (RELENG_5_5) first, and then go from there to 6.2 (RELENG_6_2) just to be safe. It might be possible to go directly from 4.11 to 6.2, but doing such a big jump is an extremely risky process. In any case, I'd set up a test environment with something like vmplayer and experiment first before doing the actual update.
Many of the lists are just quite picky. If you take a look, most of the good ones are extremely hard to obtain. Of all the ones you could easily find, Ritek is probably one of the best of them (with the exception of Taiyo Yuden).
Their CDs come in about the quality of their DVD+RW's - that is, although they're not made to the quality of the best CDs, they rarely fail. Out of a spindle of 100 Ritek's, I get an average of about 2-3 coasters. Compare that with the average of 10-20 coasters per 100 of CMC's, or even more with the Moser Baer ones.
So, they're not that bad of a company. When comparing media that you could generally find anywhere, they're quite close to the top.
A GPS reciever is absolutely pointless in a mobile phone. The tracking support isn't actually in the phone itself, but rather built into the cell towers. With 3 cell towers and a computer-based analysis on signal strength, the cell phone provider can determine the cell phone's coordinates to a degree higher than that of GPS. When you call 911, this info is simply sent to the police. It removes a complicated piece of hardware from the cell phone while recording position in a cheaper way. If you only have two towers, a general location of the phone is still possible, though there is going to be a slight doubt. Even with one tower, the info given is still useful to an extent - most towers don't cover large distances. Because of that, there is actually no GPS reciever built into any mobile phone.
The requirements don't seem all that bad once you look at reality. Unless you build a very very sucky system, you're most likely to meet them.
About a year ago, I built a system optimized for running some simple 3d games on Linux, as well as having some nice compile times. Then, I take a look at the requirements and go through the checklist: apparently, if I sent my system in for Permium Certification, it would have gotten it. Plus, this system only costed me $600. Beta2 runs very smoothly on here.
The idea here is that most practical systems will be ready for the certification. You get a mid-end $50 video card to play Unreal Tournament 2004, and you find out that most of them are equipped with a HD output. As for the 1GB RAM - might not be as useful, but the prices are falling. 100mbit ethernet port and sound - most decent motherboards come with onboard components that meet the requirements.
Vista is simply stating: look, if you don't get a decent system, it won't run. If you see here, unless you're buying a system just for the very basic stuff, other needs will make you get a system with requirements that meet the features. As for the amount of resources it takes - hey, it's good use of all the hardware I paid for mainly just to run a game.
The main reason why I have a mobile is so that people can contact me while I'm on the go.
Anything else is extra and I probably don't need it. However, it does contribute to making the phone harder to use, easier to break (less reliable), and more expensive. Why would I want a device with everything in it as a cell phone when all I'm supposed to do is talk with it?
After all, if I want all the extra features, I'd probably go with a PDA anyways. A cell phone only does the job half decently, and the features are just things that I can accidently use and incur a higher phone bill. It's not easy to use all of them, and it just makes it harder to just simply dial a number and go.
Rather be carrying a compact digital camera, a real MP3 player, a real PDA if I really want all those features. After all, those do a way better job at it.
Their $500 for a gaming machine seriously fails it. If you really go dealshopping, you can get a gaming computer with a case for about $500. I'm already done with the price searching to build a new box for $500 with the following specs: AMD Athlon64 3800+ Asus Socet754 Mobo (no, I will not be upgrading this rig ever!) 512MB RAM 300GB/16MB/7200RPM HD One DVD-RW, one CD-RW nVIDIA FX5700 It really works out quite well all for under $500. Definitely beats the one at THG, will be able to handle Doom3 and HL2 like a breeze. However, I'm mostly optimizing this for compiling stuff on Linux.
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Assuming you use normal paper, couldn't you like destroy the set of dots by using a little bit of sandpaper or a bit of acid?
Also, if you print reprint a few unnoticable stuff on the page by flipping the page over and reprinting, wouldn't you effectively destroy the sequence?
I wonder what would happen if I were to touch the replicated object and attempt to mess around with the inner parts of it.
Or what kind of disaster would I end up with if there was some serious lag in the information? How about corrupted info?
Those people took until now to come up with this model? I thought that's how time travel worked in that Japanese manga, Doraemon, which was created in the '70s.
Technically, using a P4 or an Athlon would still make the Starter Edition function the same. If they just block the processors, it just prevents companies from using their previous models existing if they usually only using P4's or Athlons. The Durons are slowly being phased out, and the Celerons would seriously hurt the performance. If they allowed all processors, businesses won't be able to take advantages of it anyways. The limits just won't work out for any type of business, no matter how light. Even in schools and such, not even the home edition quite suffices. Even with the low-end only limit, that's still not going to stop businesses and such from using the Starter Edition. Many corporations don't need the performance of the P4s and Athlons anyways, and thus opt for Celeron and Duron because they're cheaper. Limiting the Starter Edition to the low-end systems will just limit the customers. Everyone would probably just look at it as a reason to just get a lower-end computer, and thus some new users might think twice before buying a system with the Starter Edition.
This idea completely works. I've had many friends that are new to computers. When I suggested them against a Dell or Sony Vaio, they just ended up with an old computer. I installed Linux on it, and they would usually learn very quickly and like it better than Windows for the fact it's a bit less stupid in some areas and also if you set it up right, it's actually more user friendly. I've actually had converted many others that learn quickly once they find out that none of the dangerous viruses work on stuff other than Windows.
In some cases, the computing time may differ. Sometimes, a complex problem can take up to 10sec to solve on one CPU, while it immediately gets solved on another. There are differences between the CPUs, their speed and such, so unprevilaged people without good CPUs are at a disadvantage. Also, the time gives disadvantage to some people, especially for those the other side of the world. Some people would still be in school, and others will be forced to do it through night (eg. for me, it'd be from 3:00 AM to 8:00AM). In my opnion, this competition is not the least bit fair.
People should simply just call the cops when they spot that malware/spyware was putting illegal stuff on their box. They should clean it up the best they can, and get someone to investigate. This would get you in less trouble, as then, you have a defending point of informing authorities that your browser has been hijacked by malware/spyware. If the person inform authorities, it's just like not reporting a theft.
Actually, it might be more of the plugins. If you installed the wrong version of the Java plugin, and it has an error, it will crash Mozilla. This is because a line in the code will terminate Mozilla. This is only partially Mozilla's fault, but they could have just removed that terminate feature.
Even though this law may sound like its breaking privacy, it might not be that bad. If I were to start a cybercafe, I would anyways do the things in the chart for the safety of the cybercafe and to maintain order. If users don't like the idea, they don't go to that cybercafe. Who would want those bandwidth-hogging games anyways in their cybercafes? In fact, maybe cybercafes should be limited to web browsing, and no games.