I think that it would be logical for countries to establish bases within reasonably close proximity. There is too much that can go wrong for someone to risk establishing a 'loner' base.
Currently, with all my fans on lowest power (and have been oevernight, and stay that way if I'm not gaming) my CPU temperature is 36 celsius. My RT2 is 30 celsius. My room is 25 celsius.
When I crank up my fans, my CPU cools to 34 celsius, my RT2 stays the same.
I bought a Zalman cooling fan, and it came with an adapter with a knob that you can turn to slow your fans down to about 1k RPM. I found a few more online, and with my Antec PS, which lets you plug its fan into a mobo fan slot, i can control the speed of all 3 of my fans. My computer is as quiet as a mouse if I need it to be.
Now his troubles are all great and nice and whatnot, don't get me wrong, but isn't the point of him writing an article so that we don't have to go through the same trouble he did? I'd rather hear something in the summary about which one actually did better....
I bought myself one of the zalman fans with the big-ass heat sink. I used the fan speed regulator that came with it to control the 120mm fan on the back of my computer, and the only other fans I have are in my Antec power supply and my Chaintech/nVidia 6800 GT. I have a 2.4ghz pentium 4. After A few hours of Medal of Honor Pacific Assault played at all the highest settings, my CPU will be around 45 degrees C. Idle, it stays around 35 degrees C.
I find this especially impressive because I don't have air conditioning in my room, thus heating my room up to about 30 degrees C, and I have only an air cooling system with 1 case fan.
So zalman fans rule the world.
Not only that, but those who are willing to go out and get adblocking software most likely will not click an ad anyways/. It is like the spammers who put so much effort in making emails get through spam filters. People put those filters there because they don't intend to read any spam and therefore would rather not even see them.
Yet spammers still exist out there, because there are morons dumb enough to buy from them.
In the same way, ads will always be out there because people will always click them.
And finally...
I use firefox, but do my adblocking through my hosts file. I've made up a good list of a few hundred ad companies, and rarely see any more ads. The advantage of using a host file is that you can block out the request sent to their server, so you don't get cookies, you don't get their javascript loading, you don't get their iframe, and they can't hijack the page you are using.
How is this different from, say, a handheld radio with microphone input hooked up to an ipod?
Also, I would expect it would be unusable in NYC because advertisers would just broadcast on every channel possible.
Nope. A sends out request for file that B has. B has C stand in, and sends file through C. A never finds out who B was, and C knows who they both were, which is why the network isn't safe from the RIAA
Does anyone know how the scale for geomagnetic deviation works? I assume they use exponential growth (meaning a 4.0 is 10 times more deviant than a 3.0, a 3.0 is 10 times worse than a 2.0, like the Richter scale), with a 1 being standard deviation.
The main question behind my pondering is: We know that a 9 on the scale must mean "x amount of deviation, and up" and that the values for 2-8 must be spaced in some way logically (e.g. not have a 3 be 100 times as deviant as a 2, but a 4 be only 3 times more deviant than a 3) So what level would the deviance been measured at if the scale went beyond 9?
According to Google
130 + 130 + 1.5 = 261.5
261.5 millimeters = 10.2952756 inches
I don't think that it is a storage disk, more of a storage cylinder. I'm guessing that it would be read totem style.
Good luck fitting a reader for these things in your computer.
This sounds a tad ridiculous.... like the article was written by someone who realy expects nanotechnology to erupt into common usage instantaneously.
I am aware of the strength of nanotubes and look forward to a space elevator as much as the next guy, but there are some scenarios the writer gives that are extremely unlikely, such as the nanobots landing on mars by just forming an aerodynamic shield, or slithering like a snake. both of those actions would cause immense amounts of stress on the nanobots, and leaves too much room for error.
The shuttle has how many million parts? Would we really create something with thousands of times more moving parts and expect it to be fail-safe?
I like to dream about a lot of stuff. I want to see people on Mars before I die. But just sending a lump of nanobots into Mars' atmosphere? Not likely
This scene is somewhat reminiscent of the scene from the Incredibles where victims of crimes start suing the superheroes for helping them.
Google has become the doorway to the internet. Your site doesn't exist until Google indexes it. Anyone who sues them isn't trying to prevent copyright infringement or reproduction of their data, they are most likely looking for a reason to press charges and make a quick franc.
Having worked in a Wal-Mart for one summer, I can assure you that I not only didn't pay attention to the register display thing, but I would've welcomed some excitement of someone actually stealing from the store. Then again, for there to be any excitement I'd either have to be an accomplice or actually bust them. Hmmm.
Worst job I've ever had.
I never noticed anyone stealing so Wal Mart don't sue me when you read this.
At what point does the FCC become a government-funded mouthpiece for the PTC? If one of the major reasons that the FCC takes action is because someone filed a complaint, and PTC is filing most of the complaints, then doesn't that basically make the FCC a somewhat filtered out PTC?
Also, whatever happened to those Howard Stern complaints again Oprah Winfrey's "Tossed Salad" comments?
Explain to me how running the electronic voting for a longer time will reduce glitches.
Try running a windows machine for two weeks. Now run the same machine for one day. Which period do you think is more likely to have bugs arise.
Sure Diebold machines aren't windows machines, but the point is the same. If a computer gives buggy results over a short period of time, running it longer won't smooth things out.
Human error, on the other hand, will probably be reduced dramatically. I agree with that.
You would think that people with sport superstitions would have had some sense knocked into them after the World Series... ... not that I would mind Kerry winning.
An interesting thing about these scams is how game theory applies to them. If they don't send out any emails, of course they don't make any money. If they send out only a thousand or so per day, they'll probably succeed one or two people, and make a decent amount of money. Additionally, they'll remain more anonymous and reduce the risk of word spreading about this scam. If EVERY scammer sends out millions of these emails, people will catch on quickly and profits will plummet. That's what they did now. Everyone jumped on the bandwagon and the scam bubble burst.
I believe that the success of these scams will decline over time. Just like with the 409 scams, there will a larger number of people who fall for it at the beginning, but then numbers will drop. Will it always be profittable for them? Most likely, yes, unless email verification becomes much more standard. Will they go away? No. Will they eventually find some new scheme that is even more clever? Without a doubt.
While I agree that filtering child porn sites should not be a burden the ISPs should need to filter, one must also understand what the government is (or at least should be) trying to do. With drugs, arresting pot smokers will do little damage to drug dealers. Half of all college students would be in trouble. Instead, they crack down on the dealers. By intercepting one truckload of marijuana, the government can prevent the distribution of marijuana to thousands of people. Unfortunately, stoping child porn and digital copyright infringement is not as easy. One can smuggle thousands of dollars of bootleg cds or child pornography without putting them in condoms and swallowing them to get them past the border. It can simply be sent with a filesharing program or a website or one of a thousand other ways of sending a file. As with pot, half of all college kids (more like 80%) could be in trouble for copyright infringement, so stopping them is pointless. They need to work from the top down. They can't stop child pornography or media bootlegging in foreign countries, nor can they prevent the illegal material from entering the united states. The best they can do is filter ISPs or monitor individuals who visit fake sites. Setting up fake sites wouldn't work well because people probably have a source they trust for their child porn. While the actions taken were ineffective, I feel that they were a step in the right direction. Perhaps if/when there is an overhaul of internet protocols, monitoring illegal activities may be easier for the government.
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Damn... ust after I had reverse-engineered and commented Google Suggest
You think I kid.
I think that it would be logical for countries to establish bases within reasonably close proximity. There is too much that can go wrong for someone to risk establishing a 'loner' base.
I threw this together in all of 5 seconds. http://www.cif.rochester.edu/~trevdak/md5.php
Currently, with all my fans on lowest power (and have been oevernight, and stay that way if I'm not gaming) my CPU temperature is 36 celsius. My RT2 is 30 celsius. My room is 25 celsius. When I crank up my fans, my CPU cools to 34 celsius, my RT2 stays the same.
I bought a Zalman cooling fan, and it came with an adapter with a knob that you can turn to slow your fans down to about 1k RPM. I found a few more online, and with my Antec PS, which lets you plug its fan into a mobo fan slot, i can control the speed of all 3 of my fans. My computer is as quiet as a mouse if I need it to be.
Now his troubles are all great and nice and whatnot, don't get me wrong, but isn't the point of him writing an article so that we don't have to go through the same trouble he did? I'd rather hear something in the summary about which one actually did better....
I bought myself one of the zalman fans with the big-ass heat sink. I used the fan speed regulator that came with it to control the 120mm fan on the back of my computer, and the only other fans I have are in my Antec power supply and my Chaintech/nVidia 6800 GT. I have a 2.4ghz pentium 4. After A few hours of Medal of Honor Pacific Assault played at all the highest settings, my CPU will be around 45 degrees C. Idle, it stays around 35 degrees C.
I find this especially impressive because I don't have air conditioning in my room, thus heating my room up to about 30 degrees C, and I have only an air cooling system with 1 case fan.
So zalman fans rule the world.
Not only that, but those who are willing to go out and get adblocking software most likely will not click an ad anyways/. It is like the spammers who put so much effort in making emails get through spam filters. People put those filters there because they don't intend to read any spam and therefore would rather not even see them. Yet spammers still exist out there, because there are morons dumb enough to buy from them. In the same way, ads will always be out there because people will always click them. And finally... I use firefox, but do my adblocking through my hosts file. I've made up a good list of a few hundred ad companies, and rarely see any more ads. The advantage of using a host file is that you can block out the request sent to their server, so you don't get cookies, you don't get their javascript loading, you don't get their iframe, and they can't hijack the page you are using.
How is this different from, say, a handheld radio with microphone input hooked up to an ipod? Also, I would expect it would be unusable in NYC because advertisers would just broadcast on every channel possible.
Nope. A sends out request for file that B has. B has C stand in, and sends file through C. A never finds out who B was, and C knows who they both were, which is why the network isn't safe from the RIAA
I found an automatically generated graph here:
http://www.sec.noaa.gov/rt_plots/kp_3d.html
Does anyone know how the scale for geomagnetic deviation works?
I assume they use exponential growth (meaning a 4.0 is 10 times more deviant than a 3.0, a 3.0 is 10 times worse than a 2.0, like the Richter scale), with a 1 being standard deviation.
The main question behind my pondering is:
We know that a 9 on the scale must mean "x amount of deviation, and up" and that the values for 2-8 must be spaced in some way logically (e.g. not have a 3 be 100 times as deviant as a 2, but a 4 be only 3 times more deviant than a 3)
So what level would the deviance been measured at if the scale went beyond 9?
Ah, now I find a picture of it:9 9868.JPG
http://img.engadget.com/common/images/86612351234
Perhaps they mean nm instead of mm?
According to Google 130 + 130 + 1.5 = 261.5 261.5 millimeters = 10.2952756 inches
I don't think that it is a storage disk, more of a storage cylinder. I'm guessing that it would be read totem style.
Good luck fitting a reader for these things in your computer.
They missed the boat on this joke by not calling it Snowcrash.
This sounds a tad ridiculous.... like the article was written by someone who realy expects nanotechnology to erupt into common usage instantaneously. I am aware of the strength of nanotubes and look forward to a space elevator as much as the next guy, but there are some scenarios the writer gives that are extremely unlikely, such as the nanobots landing on mars by just forming an aerodynamic shield, or slithering like a snake. both of those actions would cause immense amounts of stress on the nanobots, and leaves too much room for error. The shuttle has how many million parts? Would we really create something with thousands of times more moving parts and expect it to be fail-safe? I like to dream about a lot of stuff. I want to see people on Mars before I die. But just sending a lump of nanobots into Mars' atmosphere? Not likely
This scene is somewhat reminiscent of the scene from the Incredibles where victims of crimes start suing the superheroes for helping them.
Google has become the doorway to the internet. Your site doesn't exist until Google indexes it. Anyone who sues them isn't trying to prevent copyright infringement or reproduction of their data, they are most likely looking for a reason to press charges and make a quick franc.
Having worked in a Wal-Mart for one summer, I can assure you that I not only didn't pay attention to the register display thing, but I would've welcomed some excitement of someone actually stealing from the store. Then again, for there to be any excitement I'd either have to be an accomplice or actually bust them. Hmmm.
Worst job I've ever had.
I never noticed anyone stealing so Wal Mart don't sue me when you read this.
At what point does the FCC become a government-funded mouthpiece for the PTC? If one of the major reasons that the FCC takes action is because someone filed a complaint, and PTC is filing most of the complaints, then doesn't that basically make the FCC a somewhat filtered out PTC?
Also, whatever happened to those Howard Stern complaints again Oprah Winfrey's "Tossed Salad" comments?
I got a bad feeling about this... has never rung more true.
Explain to me how running the electronic voting for a longer time will reduce glitches. Try running a windows machine for two weeks. Now run the same machine for one day. Which period do you think is more likely to have bugs arise. Sure Diebold machines aren't windows machines, but the point is the same. If a computer gives buggy results over a short period of time, running it longer won't smooth things out. Human error, on the other hand, will probably be reduced dramatically. I agree with that.
You would think that people with sport superstitions would have had some sense knocked into them after the World Series...
... not that I would mind Kerry winning.
An interesting thing about these scams is how game theory applies to them. If they don't send out any emails, of course they don't make any money. If they send out only a thousand or so per day, they'll probably succeed one or two people, and make a decent amount of money. Additionally, they'll remain more anonymous and reduce the risk of word spreading about this scam. If EVERY scammer sends out millions of these emails, people will catch on quickly and profits will plummet. That's what they did now. Everyone jumped on the bandwagon and the scam bubble burst.
I believe that the success of these scams will decline over time. Just like with the 409 scams, there will a larger number of people who fall for it at the beginning, but then numbers will drop. Will it always be profittable for them? Most likely, yes, unless email verification becomes much more standard. Will they go away? No. Will they eventually find some new scheme that is even more clever? Without a doubt.
I dunno what my point is. Someone agree with me.
Me.
Proof:
"Federal law prohibits execution of those under 18 when the offense was committed, and I see no reason to change that statue."
While I agree that filtering child porn sites should not be a burden the ISPs should need to filter, one must also understand what the government is (or at least should be) trying to do.
With drugs, arresting pot smokers will do little damage to drug dealers. Half of all college students would be in trouble. Instead, they crack down on the dealers. By intercepting one truckload of marijuana, the government can prevent the distribution of marijuana to thousands of people.
Unfortunately, stoping child porn and digital copyright infringement is not as easy. One can smuggle thousands of dollars of bootleg cds or child pornography without putting them in condoms and swallowing them to get them past the border. It can simply be sent with a filesharing program or a website or one of a thousand other ways of sending a file. As with pot, half of all college kids (more like 80%) could be in trouble for copyright infringement, so stopping them is pointless. They need to work from the top down. They can't stop child pornography or media bootlegging in foreign countries, nor can they prevent the illegal material from entering the united states.
The best they can do is filter ISPs or monitor individuals who visit fake sites. Setting up fake sites wouldn't work well because people probably have a source they trust for their child porn. While the actions taken were ineffective, I feel that they were a step in the right direction. Perhaps if/when there is an overhaul of internet protocols, monitoring illegal activities may be easier for the government.