As these "premium" cables tend to have gold plated conductors, they probably have an extremely limited number of plug-unplug cycles before the plating gets worn enough that they're worse than cheap cables! Note to self: start selling diamond-plated cables!
Silver audio cables are just as stupid. How cares about the.000000000003 watt you gain in the decreased resistance in the line!? Silver ain't gonna help against interference. I think we just stumbled upon a source of money for room-temperature superconductors -- the audiophiles! Imagine what they'd pay if you could make room-temperature superconducting wires! In the meantime, I'm going to quit my job and develop liquid nitrogen cooled speaker cables...if audiophiles will pay $7000 for speaker wires that aren't superconducting, imagine what they'd pay!
Agreed but it's highly illegal to take all politicians and corperate executives and kill them on pikes in public. Well clearly we need to add another referendum to the ballot that would make such a thing legal. If it fails, then we know that the machines are rigged.
In addition, at 11 inches, this is pretty close to laptop territory. I expect to see 12 inch OLED laptops as soon as the price comes down a bit (say, to $500 for just the panel). Except for the fact that the display has a 960x540 resolution. Until they can lower the dot pitch and get a much higher resolution, the technology will really only be viable for TVs or other displays with full-motion video.
All those people installing displays in airplanes, cars, and, um, LAPTOPS must have overlooked something fundamental. You're going to use a laptop running at 960x540? That kind of resolution and dot pitch are acceptable for TVs with full-motion video, but try running anything other than a terminal window on it and you're going to have some issues using it as a display for a computer...
I'm sure the local Electric Company wouldn't be thrilled, unless they're fighting with brown outs/black outs, but maybe you could justify the cost with savings in your electric bill. I think you'll find that a lot of electric companies would much rather you lower your energy usage. After a certain amount of demand, the electric companies actually will start losing money -- either because of infrastructure upgrades or needing to exceed their agreements with other providers. A great example of this is in NYC, where ConEd is actually giving $50-100 if people replace their old air conditioners with energy-star approved units.
If there's a nuclear winter, and cockroaches (which are generally said to survive despite radiation) are left in the dark (somewhere), will the darkness help them evolve to the point of being sentient? You seem to be implying that they aren't already sentient. Anyone who has dealt with cockroaches before knows damn well they are!
But wasn't that part of the point of the summary -- they saved a ton by using a premade OS rather than building their own. What's so hard about giving back to the community a tiny little something. After all, it is that very community that made their profits possible in the first place. It's about good citizenship, not an extra two cents profit per device. In general, a for-profit company is only interested in "giving back" to the community if they can get a tax deduction for it. Unfortunately, geeks are not a recognized non-profit organization so "giving back" to them doesn't constitute a charitable donation for tax purposes. There are definitely exceptions to this rule, but that is how most companies work.
So basically, the President has no power to take out civil liberties and break the constitution... buuut he has the power to start a war, declare wartime, and THEN he can do whatever the hell he feels like. Except that, constitutionally, he doesn't have the power to declare war, only Congress does.
I was just looking at a list of usernames that were allegedly hacked. One of the things I noticed is that there are several odd usernames that appear one or two times that are only off by a character. This would make me think that this would be the result of a phishing attempt where users typoed their username on the phishing site.
2. DON'T click on any links from PayPal or eBay emails. Just type the site into your browser! https://www.paypal.com/ Let's be safe people! Am I the only one who finds it ironic that you included a link to paypal in your rant about not clicking on links to paypal?
Do a search for "50 cent" and you'll see that the prices... are overall pretty good. Either 89 cents or 99 cents... You think 89 or 99 cents is a good price for 50 cent(s)? I will sell you as many 50 cents as you want for 89 cents!
That reminds me of a time I had a couple half dollars on me in elementary school. One of my classmates apparently had never seen one before, and (even knowing that it was a 50-cent piece) offered me 5 dollars for it. What does it say about me that I took him up on his offer?
As for the number of users, I wonder how many of them actually USE facebook, vs simply having registered in order to see someone elses crap. According to Wikipedia, 60% of users log in at least once per day. This number is probably a little old (my guess is the number has decreased as more and more people have joined), but even at half that number it is still impressive.
Why wouldn't you go in a straight line from Earth to where Mars would be when you got there? Well, there's a few issues.
1) If you're talking about the point when Mars is farthest from Earth, it's presumably on the other side of the sun. Going in a straight line would lead you through the sun, which probably would cause a few issues.
2) There's this thing called gravity...while you could, for the most part, ignore the gravity of the planets, the sun is another issue. It's going to cause you to travel in an arc, unless you're moving directly to/from the sun (which incidentally you would be doing in the first case).
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It's a real amateur telescope, better than what most amateurs had in the first half of the 20th century I guess -- and our sky's the same as theirs:) You clearly don't live in or close to a big city if you say that...
The RIAA has a very unusual and skew view of the words "fair", "reasonable" and "facts". Could someone buy them dictionaries with those words highlighted please. Just make sure that the dictionary doesn't come from the one Fox News must be using...
The aircraft spends 99% of its operating life in the smooth, pothole-free, air. I don't know about you, but I've had flights where 99% of it was anything but smooth...
Anyways, the average user of Firefox is a lot less likely to "punch the monkey." It depends what you mean by "punch the monkey." I'd say they are very likely to "punch the monkey."
In one year, say 300 work days... Do you work 6 days a week? The average person doing a M-F job would work about 52 * 5 days per year, which is 260, assuming no holidays or vacation. At least 2 weeks vacation is pretty standard, as are 8-10 company holidays. So we're in the 240 day ballpark for a M-F job with 10 holidays and 2 weeks vacation...not counting any sick time or personal days, etc.
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I was just looking at a list of usernames that were allegedly hacked. One of the things I noticed is that there are several odd usernames that appear one or two times that are only off by a character. This would make me think that this would be the result of a phishing attempt where users typoed their username on the phishing site.
That reminds me of a time I had a couple half dollars on me in elementary school. One of my classmates apparently had never seen one before, and (even knowing that it was a 50-cent piece) offered me 5 dollars for it. What does it say about me that I took him up on his offer?
1) If you're talking about the point when Mars is farthest from Earth, it's presumably on the other side of the sun. Going in a straight line would lead you through the sun, which probably would cause a few issues.
2) There's this thing called gravity...while you could, for the most part, ignore the gravity of the planets, the sun is another issue. It's going to cause you to travel in an arc, unless you're moving directly to/from the sun (which incidentally you would be doing in the first case).
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