WinFS wouldn't have replaced NTFS, as despite the name, it is not a filesystem. It was effectively a MSSQL-based system for data and metadata allowing for enhanced searching, like pulling up "the phone numbers of all persons who live in Acapulco and have more than 100 appearances in my photo collection and from whom I have had e-mail within the last month".
According to http://www.nationalatlas.gov, the driest parts of Colorado get about 7" of rain annually (average rainfall is about 15"). that comes to 190,080 gallons per acre and would provide the total (drinking, washing, etc.) annual water usage (approximately 100 gallons per day per person, according to the US geological survey) of 5 people.
The problem is you're completely missing the apparent (to the student) scale of "long term". For someone starting school, that "long term reward" is 2-4 of their lifetimes away.
Say you're 20 and someone tells you that you won't get your "long term reward" until you're 80 and nothing but "a feeling of achievement for doing well" until then. I don't imagine you'd be real motivated.
In my experience, people react more favorably to "no, it won't do that" than they do to "It works, but you may have problems with it". They want something to either work very-near-perfectly or not at all. It's a lot like the uncanny valley in robotics.
You're correct. Just a automatic VPN with UDP hole punching, commonly used to access US-only content from outside the US. It is a fairly popular tool as it's free (as in beer) and stupid simple to use.
I don't see anyone wanting to require Microsoft to keep supporting it (They're going to support it with security updates until 2014 anyways). I see people wanting Microsoft to be required to keep selling it.
I think the "get used to it" is referring any LTS releases between now and whenever 4.3 is released, as IIRC, the next release of Ubuntu in October will be an LTS.
Only require CAT3. I see people using CAT5/5e as phone line all the time, including new construction (building in ethernet to every room seems to be increasingly popular), and just ignoring the extra wires. Saves them from needing 2 different spools of line and the price difference is pretty minimal. CAT5e only costs $20/1000ft more than CAT3 phone line.
It's just "Media Player Classic", not WMPC, even though it does share the basic interface (and derives its version number from it. the last version was 6.4.09.1130) with the old 6.4 windows media player (which is still available on XP (named mplayer2.exe), but has been removed on vista.). Actually, the original MPC seems to be dead (has not been updated in over 3 years and the project hasn't been touched in almost 2 and numerous bugs and security issues have remained unresolved.) with the torch taken up by the doom9 version (6.4.9.1, as opposed to 6.4.9.0 which is the last on the sourceforge project) and in the Media Player Classic Homecinema project.
It is up to the codec developers to test and always has been, and to update the API calls if needed.
And when a video fails to play, is the user going to blame the media player or the codec, which assumes they even know what a codec is as it probably came all pre-installed or as a part of something else.
People tend to blame the parts they see, regardless of whether that's the cause or not.
1. No idea on that. My dimmable CFL (No idea what brand. Got it at Peavy Mart) in the den is still working just fine after 3 years, hanging upsidedown too. Could be because the dimmer was brand new when I put in the bulb.
2. I've been using a set of 4 really cheap (Bought at the local "dollar" store) 40W-equivalent (10W) CFLs in my upstairs bathroom without problem for the past year, but there's no shower there, so maybe that's why they're lasting in there. The long warm up time is nice in this case, as I don't get blinded anymore when I wander in there in the middle of the night.
3. The figure I whomped up upthread assumes silly transmission losses. According to the DOE, actual losses are about 8%, not 50%, so the total realistic draw would come to about 26W (23W+3W of loss) and 46VA.
I would be nice if Congress could send reference questions to the court like we do here in Canada.
OTOH, I have a feeling it would turn into something like "Ok, so you say that would be blatantly unconstitutional. We'll just pass it anyway and hope we can stack the court before a case on it gets to you."
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Hyjal and CoT Mount Hyjal are not the same zone. Hyjal in present time is still inaccessible.
The hands are pure chance. The bluffing isn't.
WinFS wouldn't have replaced NTFS, as despite the name, it is not a filesystem. It was effectively a MSSQL-based system for data and metadata allowing for enhanced searching, like pulling up "the phone numbers of all persons who live in Acapulco and have more than 100 appearances in my photo collection and from whom I have had e-mail within the last month".
I think you're off by a few orders of magnitude.
According to http://www.nationalatlas.gov, the driest parts of Colorado get about 7" of rain annually (average rainfall is about 15"). that comes to 190,080 gallons per acre and would provide the total (drinking, washing, etc.) annual water usage (approximately 100 gallons per day per person, according to the US geological survey) of 5 people.
The problem is you're completely missing the apparent (to the student) scale of "long term". For someone starting school, that "long term reward" is 2-4 of their lifetimes away.
Say you're 20 and someone tells you that you won't get your "long term reward" until you're 80 and nothing but "a feeling of achievement for doing well" until then. I don't imagine you'd be real motivated.
Chromium is not the same thing as Chrome.
I dunno, people can get pretty violent when they get themselves into an unwinnable situation.
In my experience, people react more favorably to "no, it won't do that" than they do to "It works, but you may have problems with it". They want something to either work very-near-perfectly or not at all. It's a lot like the uncanny valley in robotics.
1. I would presume they were produced from cells harvested from the good eyes.
2. Adult stem cells are multipotent progenitor cells.
Works great until you put 2 ports (one ethernet, one phone) right next to each other and accidentally swap the labels.
You're correct. Just a automatic VPN with UDP hole punching, commonly used to access US-only content from outside the US. It is a fairly popular tool as it's free (as in beer) and stupid simple to use.
I don't see anyone wanting to require Microsoft to keep supporting it (They're going to support it with security updates until 2014 anyways). I see people wanting Microsoft to be required to keep selling it.
Outside of theory, nothing is ideal for anything. Use what you've got.
I think the "get used to it" is referring any LTS releases between now and whenever 4.3 is released, as IIRC, the next release of Ubuntu in October will be an LTS.
Only require CAT3. I see people using CAT5/5e as phone line all the time, including new construction (building in ethernet to every room seems to be increasingly popular), and just ignoring the extra wires. Saves them from needing 2 different spools of line and the price difference is pretty minimal. CAT5e only costs $20/1000ft more than CAT3 phone line.
It's just "Media Player Classic", not WMPC, even though it does share the basic interface (and derives its version number from it. the last version was 6.4.09.1130) with the old 6.4 windows media player (which is still available on XP (named mplayer2.exe), but has been removed on vista.). Actually, the original MPC seems to be dead (has not been updated in over 3 years and the project hasn't been touched in almost 2 and numerous bugs and security issues have remained unresolved.) with the torch taken up by the doom9 version (6.4.9.1, as opposed to 6.4.9.0 which is the last on the sourceforge project) and in the Media Player Classic Homecinema project.
It is up to the codec developers to test and always has been, and to update the API calls if needed.
And when a video fails to play, is the user going to blame the media player or the codec, which assumes they even know what a codec is as it probably came all pre-installed or as a part of something else.
People tend to blame the parts they see, regardless of whether that's the cause or not.
FF XI has been going longer than WoW, so I think they know what they're doing.
No, it's subtitle advertising.
What about the rule? He's in perfect accordance with it.
1. No idea on that. My dimmable CFL (No idea what brand. Got it at Peavy Mart) in the den is still working just fine after 3 years, hanging upsidedown too. Could be because the dimmer was brand new when I put in the bulb.
2. I've been using a set of 4 really cheap (Bought at the local "dollar" store) 40W-equivalent (10W) CFLs in my upstairs bathroom without problem for the past year, but there's no shower there, so maybe that's why they're lasting in there. The long warm up time is nice in this case, as I don't get blinded anymore when I wander in there in the middle of the night.
3. The figure I whomped up upthread assumes silly transmission losses. According to the DOE, actual losses are about 8%, not 50%, so the total realistic draw would come to about 26W (23W+3W of loss) and 46VA.
That's why I said "it would be nice if". The constitutional prohibition on it also mentioned in the article I linked.
OTOH, constitutionality is just an amendment away.
Why not set an efficiency factor on a bulb
That's exactly what they did do.
From section 212 of the CLEAN Energy Act of 2007, table "INCANDESCENT REFLECTOR LAMPS":
Wattage Required efficiency (%)
40-50 10.5
51-66 11.0
67-85 12.5
86-115 14.0
116-155 14.5
156-205 15.0
I would be nice if Congress could send reference questions to the court like we do here in Canada.
OTOH, I have a feeling it would turn into something like "Ok, so you say that would be blatantly unconstitutional. We'll just pass it anyway and hope we can stack the court before a case on it gets to you."
Well, the ideal solution so far seems to be widespread LED lighting, combined with widespread nuclear power
While we're on the OMG!HEAVYMETALS! train of hysteria, red, orange, and yellow LEDs commonly contain Arsenic, and blue ones commonly contain Selenium.