I have to agree...Netscape 8 is a disgrace to the Firefox codebase and should be boycotted. I haven't tried it myself, have no intention of doing so, but I've heard that the IE rendering engine is the default, and the only way to use the Firefox rendering engine for a site is to list it as "untrusted". Maybe this is just a sneaky way for Microsoft to get more people using IE without realizing it, while thinking they're using an alternative. Or get people to think the IE rendering engine is "better" by doing this underhanded stuff. I don't trust Netscape 8 as far as I can throw it.
These days (since Netscape 6.0), Netscape is just a rebranded/skinned version of Mozilla. Well, except for the utter horror that is Netscape 8, but I won't go into that.
Interesting...I never tried to use mine as a generator. I have an inverter, but it's a really tiny one that can't even power a dirt devil, heh. Most I've powered with it has been lights and things like Gameboy and cellphone chargers. I have modded mine with the electric-only mod (where you hold the cruise handle to "cancel" for 2 seconds). That saves gas in certain situations...I use it for running around my apartment complex (checking the mail, going to the laundry room, etc). I've run my battery down a couple times that way, but I have plenty of chances to charge it when I'm actually driving. Running the engine around the apartment complex just tends to waste gas and not actually charge the battery much. In electric-only mode it will let you accelerate up to 34mph without starting the engine (unless you really nail the gas) until the battery gets down to 3 bars. It's pretty nice. Electric only mode will not engage unless the battery is above 3 bars and you're going less than 34mph, otherwise it auto-cancels. Apparently the European and Japanese models have a button on the dash for that...they deleted the button for the US model but left all the necessary computer programming for that mode.
I've owned a Prius for over a year now, and I can say that even under the worst circumstances it gets better gas mileage than my last car did under the best circumstances. Gas mileage is a bit lower on the highway than in the city (electric only is only good up to 34mph), but it's not *that* bad. I consistently get 45-50mpg on the highway, and I consistently get 50-55mpg average city/highway. The lowest my weekly average has ever gotten, during the dead of winter, with the heater blasting (which makes it run the engine more - the water pump is electric but the engine has to start whenever the coolant drops below a certain temp), is 45mpg. The only way I can see to get the mileage lower than that would be to drive it like a race car. I guess if you floor it constantly and use the brakes a lot rather than let the regenerative brakes work, you could drop it below 40mpg, but I don't think I could do it without trying.
The water pump in the Prius is already electric. The problem is, the coolant only stays hot for so long before it has to start the engine again to heat it back up. Mine has given me about 5 minutes of heat in cold (0-10 F) weather before it had to start the engine again. (This only applies to stop and go, where the engine has a chance to shut off.) Obviously running the engine a lot in stop and go traffic affects the gas mileage a bit in that car, but the lowest my weekly average has ever been is 45mpg (combined city/highway, my drive to work is about 50% of each). That's still better than the best my old Contour ever got under the best circumstances (37mpg). In summer I normally average 55-58mpg. So yes, cold weather does drop the gas mileage, but even under the worst conditions it's better than most standard cars. The only non-diesel that comes to mind that can achieve 45mpg is the Geo Metro. I normally get around 45-50mpg on the highway.
EB Games is currently offering $30 in trade for an SP. If you trade in 1 game with it, they give you a $15 bonus on top of that, plus whatever the game is worth. I traded in a bad game that I paid less than $10 for, ended up getting $50 total in trade. I liked my cobalt SP, but frankly the screen on the original SP sucks compared to the new one. The difference is night and day...moreso than from the original Advance to the SP.
I've seen one of those. Due to the lawsuit Phillips filed, they are not allowed to use the "Compact Disc" logo on these DRM'd CD's. Phillips sued them for trademark infringement, since they were selling something labeled as a CD when it obviously wasn't. My roommate came into possession of one of these recently (he got it used though, he doesn't buy new CD's either unless they're non-RIAA labels), and it doesn't have the CD logo anywhere on it. It just says "enhanced CD". IIRC, it's one of those CD's where you have to hold down the shift key to stop autoplay when you load the disk. He had no problem ripping it with cdparanoia in Linux though.
Same goes for Linux "antivirus" programs. All of the so-called Linux antivirus programs scan email and sometimes files for Windows viruses, to keep you from passing them on to poor Windows users. I guess that might come in handy if you were running an email server, and you wanted to keep Windows viruses out of the email. But they don't do jack for Linux itself. In fact, the whole concept of a "virus" in Windows doesn't work in a *nix environment. The closest thing I can think of is a worm, but you have to be running a specific vulnerable version of a service (and even then, that service has to have privileges that would enable an exploit to do something consequential to the system) for that to even be a possibility. "Viruses" as Windows users know them are only possible in the Windows world.
No kidding, especially when you take into account the fact that you can get a decent portable DVD player at Wal-Mart for half the price of a PSP. I've seen uber cheap ones for under $100, decent ones go for around $120-$130.
Maybe it's not the refresh of the screen itself but the way the images on the screen are drawn. The screen itself doesn't have a refresh rate, but the system still has to update every pixel on the screen at whatever framerate the game is running at (30fps or whatever). Maybe the PSP is just doing it in an odd way to cover up low framerate? Or possibly the LCD's response time is low (this causes blurring which gives me a headache). Low framerates give me a headache as well, just as a refresh rate lower than 72 Hz on a CRT gives me a headache.
No kidding! Meteos is freaking awesome, and there is a lot more skill involved than most puzzle games. There's some luck too, but not nearly as much. It's freaking addictive too. I wish I could enter my girlfriend in a Meteos competition, she'd probably win. She managed to pwn me in 7 out of 8 games, when I had been playing it for 2 days and she had never seen it until she started playing.
I had 2 WD drives fail a few years back (after using each for over a year), an 800mb and a 1.6gb. Actually the 1.6gb I had for about 4 years before it failed. I've been using Maxtor since then. Right now I have a 6-year-old 10gb, a 4-year old 30gb (rebranded Quantum Fireball actually), a 2-year-old 80gb, and a 4 month old SATA 80gb, none of them have ever had any problems whatsoever.
Sounds like you need User Agent Switcher. Go to http://update.mozilla.org/ and look for it, it's a Firefox extension that comes in handy (though I rarely need it). You can define custom user agents in addition to the ones it includes. Here's a link, not sure if it will work as a direct link though.
Simple. The Prometheus and the Daedalus both have Asgard hyperdrives. The Daedalus could've easily made it to Atlantis without the ZPM (in fact, in season 8 they tried to send the Prometheus once, they just ended up getting sidetracked/damaged). The whole reason they used the ZPM was it gave the hyperdrive a bit of a boost that let them get there a little faster. They were in a hurry because of the Wraith attack. IIRC they said it would take something like 8 days to get there normally, whereas with the ZPM they cut it to 3/4 days. Atlantis probably isn't much further from Earth than the Asgard home galaxy is, and they can cross that distance pretty quickly. The Daedalus will be making regular trips between Earth and Atlantis. In fact, the first episode of this season of SG-1 happens quite awhile after the season opener of Atlantis. The Daedalus was back at Earth again (having dropped off some stuff Atlantis sent back after the opener), ready to leave for Atlantis again. The Daedalus and crew will be making appearances on both series.
I remember reading that Intel's "dual core" chips aren't true dual core at all, but simply two CPU's put into one package. AMD's dual cores actually have two cores in the same die.
Of course they're going to deny it!
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If it's unannounced, I don't expect them to admit to it even if it is really there. The ID on the Pentium 3 was still there as well, even though they claimed to have disabled it after the uproar.
Just get Flashblock + Adblock. Flashblock will stop any flash popups (unless you click on the flashblock icon anyway). If I ever get a popup from a flash that's clicked on, I simply adblock the entire server it came from and that puts a stop to it. This works with pop-unders too.
Actually, that's wrong. You can get a *new* Prius for around $22,000. I don't know about used, but used ones are fairly hard to find because of the high demand and waiting lists.
No kidding...I have a complete working 486 (I think it has DOS 6.22/Win3.11) with 32mb of RAM and an 800MB hard drive in my closet. Scavenged it from my last job (a gas station0 when they upgraded, to keep it from going in the trash. Last year I had enough parts lying around (bad motherboard - mouse port and serial ports are fried, but it works otherwise, hard drive, two old network cards, old ATI Mach64 video card, some old SIMMS, an old K6 I had lying around) to build a complete Gentoo-based router. Old computer parts can be very useful to those that know what to do with them. Unless it's completely dead, don't throw it away, give it to someone that may be able to use it. There are always Goodwill stores and things like that too.
I have a friend that does just this. He stopped buying CD's from RIAA labels sometime in 1999. What he's done since then is download the music and then send a check to the band. He usually gets letters saying "Wow, we wouldn't make this much even if we sold a thousand CD's, thanks!", and more often than not gets free CD's, promotional stuff, etc.
Agreed, definitely. Wind Waker is a great game, and it's a lot darker than people seem to think. Everyone I know that's actually played it agrees with me. It's definitely darker than Majora's Mask. Every time someone has told me it's cartoony and kiddy, it turned out that they had either never played it, or only played a demo for 5 minutes. It's not the best game in the series...I think Ocarina of Time is better...but that has nothing to do with "kiddy" graphics, it's because Ocarina of time has a better, more involved story, more, better dungeons, and a better overworld that's easier to explore. Sailing got a bit tedious in Wind Waker, even though the teleport song helped a lot.
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I have to agree...Netscape 8 is a disgrace to the Firefox codebase and should be boycotted. I haven't tried it myself, have no intention of doing so, but I've heard that the IE rendering engine is the default, and the only way to use the Firefox rendering engine for a site is to list it as "untrusted". Maybe this is just a sneaky way for Microsoft to get more people using IE without realizing it, while thinking they're using an alternative. Or get people to think the IE rendering engine is "better" by doing this underhanded stuff. I don't trust Netscape 8 as far as I can throw it.
These days (since Netscape 6.0), Netscape is just a rebranded/skinned version of Mozilla. Well, except for the utter horror that is Netscape 8, but I won't go into that.
Interesting...I never tried to use mine as a generator. I have an inverter, but it's a really tiny one that can't even power a dirt devil, heh. Most I've powered with it has been lights and things like Gameboy and cellphone chargers. I have modded mine with the electric-only mod (where you hold the cruise handle to "cancel" for 2 seconds). That saves gas in certain situations...I use it for running around my apartment complex (checking the mail, going to the laundry room, etc). I've run my battery down a couple times that way, but I have plenty of chances to charge it when I'm actually driving. Running the engine around the apartment complex just tends to waste gas and not actually charge the battery much. In electric-only mode it will let you accelerate up to 34mph without starting the engine (unless you really nail the gas) until the battery gets down to 3 bars. It's pretty nice. Electric only mode will not engage unless the battery is above 3 bars and you're going less than 34mph, otherwise it auto-cancels. Apparently the European and Japanese models have a button on the dash for that...they deleted the button for the US model but left all the necessary computer programming for that mode.
I've owned a Prius for over a year now, and I can say that even under the worst circumstances it gets better gas mileage than my last car did under the best circumstances. Gas mileage is a bit lower on the highway than in the city (electric only is only good up to 34mph), but it's not *that* bad. I consistently get 45-50mpg on the highway, and I consistently get 50-55mpg average city/highway. The lowest my weekly average has ever gotten, during the dead of winter, with the heater blasting (which makes it run the engine more - the water pump is electric but the engine has to start whenever the coolant drops below a certain temp), is 45mpg. The only way I can see to get the mileage lower than that would be to drive it like a race car. I guess if you floor it constantly and use the brakes a lot rather than let the regenerative brakes work, you could drop it below 40mpg, but I don't think I could do it without trying.
The water pump in the Prius is already electric. The problem is, the coolant only stays hot for so long before it has to start the engine again to heat it back up. Mine has given me about 5 minutes of heat in cold (0-10 F) weather before it had to start the engine again. (This only applies to stop and go, where the engine has a chance to shut off.) Obviously running the engine a lot in stop and go traffic affects the gas mileage a bit in that car, but the lowest my weekly average has ever been is 45mpg (combined city/highway, my drive to work is about 50% of each). That's still better than the best my old Contour ever got under the best circumstances (37mpg). In summer I normally average 55-58mpg. So yes, cold weather does drop the gas mileage, but even under the worst conditions it's better than most standard cars. The only non-diesel that comes to mind that can achieve 45mpg is the Geo Metro. I normally get around 45-50mpg on the highway.
EB Games is currently offering $30 in trade for an SP. If you trade in 1 game with it, they give you a $15 bonus on top of that, plus whatever the game is worth. I traded in a bad game that I paid less than $10 for, ended up getting $50 total in trade. I liked my cobalt SP, but frankly the screen on the original SP sucks compared to the new one. The difference is night and day...moreso than from the original Advance to the SP.
I checked mine in the store for dead pixels last night when I got it before I left. It didn't have any, screen looks great.
I've seen one of those. Due to the lawsuit Phillips filed, they are not allowed to use the "Compact Disc" logo on these DRM'd CD's. Phillips sued them for trademark infringement, since they were selling something labeled as a CD when it obviously wasn't. My roommate came into possession of one of these recently (he got it used though, he doesn't buy new CD's either unless they're non-RIAA labels), and it doesn't have the CD logo anywhere on it. It just says "enhanced CD". IIRC, it's one of those CD's where you have to hold down the shift key to stop autoplay when you load the disk. He had no problem ripping it with cdparanoia in Linux though.
Same goes for Linux "antivirus" programs. All of the so-called Linux antivirus programs scan email and sometimes files for Windows viruses, to keep you from passing them on to poor Windows users. I guess that might come in handy if you were running an email server, and you wanted to keep Windows viruses out of the email. But they don't do jack for Linux itself. In fact, the whole concept of a "virus" in Windows doesn't work in a *nix environment. The closest thing I can think of is a worm, but you have to be running a specific vulnerable version of a service (and even then, that service has to have privileges that would enable an exploit to do something consequential to the system) for that to even be a possibility. "Viruses" as Windows users know them are only possible in the Windows world.
No kidding, especially when you take into account the fact that you can get a decent portable DVD player at Wal-Mart for half the price of a PSP. I've seen uber cheap ones for under $100, decent ones go for around $120-$130.
Maybe it's not the refresh of the screen itself but the way the images on the screen are drawn. The screen itself doesn't have a refresh rate, but the system still has to update every pixel on the screen at whatever framerate the game is running at (30fps or whatever). Maybe the PSP is just doing it in an odd way to cover up low framerate? Or possibly the LCD's response time is low (this causes blurring which gives me a headache). Low framerates give me a headache as well, just as a refresh rate lower than 72 Hz on a CRT gives me a headache.
No kidding! Meteos is freaking awesome, and there is a lot more skill involved than most puzzle games. There's some luck too, but not nearly as much. It's freaking addictive too. I wish I could enter my girlfriend in a Meteos competition, she'd probably win. She managed to pwn me in 7 out of 8 games, when I had been playing it for 2 days and she had never seen it until she started playing.
I had 2 WD drives fail a few years back (after using each for over a year), an 800mb and a 1.6gb. Actually the 1.6gb I had for about 4 years before it failed. I've been using Maxtor since then. Right now I have a 6-year-old 10gb, a 4-year old 30gb (rebranded Quantum Fireball actually), a 2-year-old 80gb, and a 4 month old SATA 80gb, none of them have ever had any problems whatsoever.
Blah, I live in Columbus...too bad I have to work that day. I wish they'd have these things during the week.
Minesweeper Consultant/Solitaire Expert. That's about all it means in the real world. ;)
Sounds like you need User Agent Switcher. Go to http://update.mozilla.org/ and look for it, it's a Firefox extension that comes in handy (though I rarely need it). You can define custom user agents in addition to the ones it includes. Here's a link, not sure if it will work as a direct link though.
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https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.ph
Simple. The Prometheus and the Daedalus both have Asgard hyperdrives. The Daedalus could've easily made it to Atlantis without the ZPM (in fact, in season 8 they tried to send the Prometheus once, they just ended up getting sidetracked/damaged). The whole reason they used the ZPM was it gave the hyperdrive a bit of a boost that let them get there a little faster. They were in a hurry because of the Wraith attack. IIRC they said it would take something like 8 days to get there normally, whereas with the ZPM they cut it to 3/4 days. Atlantis probably isn't much further from Earth than the Asgard home galaxy is, and they can cross that distance pretty quickly. The Daedalus will be making regular trips between Earth and Atlantis. In fact, the first episode of this season of SG-1 happens quite awhile after the season opener of Atlantis. The Daedalus was back at Earth again (having dropped off some stuff Atlantis sent back after the opener), ready to leave for Atlantis again. The Daedalus and crew will be making appearances on both series.
I remember reading that Intel's "dual core" chips aren't true dual core at all, but simply two CPU's put into one package. AMD's dual cores actually have two cores in the same die.
If it's unannounced, I don't expect them to admit to it even if it is really there. The ID on the Pentium 3 was still there as well, even though they claimed to have disabled it after the uproar.
Just get Flashblock + Adblock. Flashblock will stop any flash popups (unless you click on the flashblock icon anyway). If I ever get a popup from a flash that's clicked on, I simply adblock the entire server it came from and that puts a stop to it. This works with pop-unders too.
Actually, that's wrong. You can get a *new* Prius for around $22,000. I don't know about used, but used ones are fairly hard to find because of the high demand and waiting lists.
No kidding...I have a complete working 486 (I think it has DOS 6.22/Win3.11) with 32mb of RAM and an 800MB hard drive in my closet. Scavenged it from my last job (a gas station0 when they upgraded, to keep it from going in the trash. Last year I had enough parts lying around (bad motherboard - mouse port and serial ports are fried, but it works otherwise, hard drive, two old network cards, old ATI Mach64 video card, some old SIMMS, an old K6 I had lying around) to build a complete Gentoo-based router. Old computer parts can be very useful to those that know what to do with them. Unless it's completely dead, don't throw it away, give it to someone that may be able to use it. There are always Goodwill stores and things like that too.
I have a friend that does just this. He stopped buying CD's from RIAA labels sometime in 1999. What he's done since then is download the music and then send a check to the band. He usually gets letters saying "Wow, we wouldn't make this much even if we sold a thousand CD's, thanks!", and more often than not gets free CD's, promotional stuff, etc.
Agreed, definitely. Wind Waker is a great game, and it's a lot darker than people seem to think. Everyone I know that's actually played it agrees with me. It's definitely darker than Majora's Mask. Every time someone has told me it's cartoony and kiddy, it turned out that they had either never played it, or only played a demo for 5 minutes. It's not the best game in the series...I think Ocarina of Time is better...but that has nothing to do with "kiddy" graphics, it's because Ocarina of time has a better, more involved story, more, better dungeons, and a better overworld that's easier to explore. Sailing got a bit tedious in Wind Waker, even though the teleport song helped a lot.
Gamecube launched at $199, in the US at least.