With pot growing in BC, and meth being produced all over the states, not to mention that cocaine is being transplanted to other areas.
And look at Afganistan, we blew the piss out of it, and have taken control of the country, but that doesn't stop the opium poppy crop from being the first thing replanted.
Your going to have to take out every country in the world, as well as all your neighbors houses.
Be a whole lot easier to legalize it, just like caffiene is legal. Regulation is far more effective than prohibition.
MS kept promising the holy grail of a unified OS, and kept stringing along Windows9X while it developed it.
I also remember promises of an "object orientated" operating system from MS, which has been forgotton as that buzzword is no longer in vogue. Likewise, Longhorn will morph into what ever buzz emerges.
5-10 years of "upgrades" to XP sounds about right.
There are people in the world who might actually have a use for this.
Rather than "hello, I am dead", send a message like "would you please call and check on me".
Probably simpler, would be just checking the mailbox, if email hasn't been accessed, then there is a problem, given that most people that are alive, check their mail semi-regularly.
No, that is for a CRT, standard audio tubes work on a few hundred volts.
And it is the plate of a tube that gets the B+ high voltage, the grid regulates the current flow, and uses a modest voltage.
A tube amplfier has 3 power supples: A- to power the filaments (6 or 12v AC) B- Hi voltage DC, in the 300 volt range C- Low voltage DC, to power the grid circuits
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I doubt it, every time I've needed a passport ID, I've just signed up for another throwaway passport account.
I'd say 2 or 3 accounts per user is not unusual. IMHO.
I haven't used any of them in months, so eventually they will expire and be recycled.
The first batch of rewritables I got could only be read on some computers and not others.
CD-R is a more universal platform.
And the media is cheap and un-reliable enough, why not one time use it?
For perhaps daily backups in business RW media is ok, but for any kind of archival sitation, read only is actually prefered.
The media is cheaper as well.
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The alloy contains beryllium, a particularly toxic metal, requiring special handling.
Does this make this alloy hazardous as well?
Historically "optional" in the digital rights world means "will be required by contract".
Lots of skilled folks, w/o degrees have gone that route, and worked for those very same companies.
It has its own set of problems, but it works for some.
Experience, and self initiative is the answer, take the manuals home and read them, learn as much as you can along the way.
When the CD soundtrack costs as much as the DVD withe the movie and more, that explains a LOT.
DVD movie prices are going down, and consumers feel they have value. They don't feel the same way about overpriced CD's.
With pot growing in BC, and meth being produced all over the states, not to mention that cocaine is being transplanted to other areas.
And look at Afganistan, we blew the piss out of it, and have taken control of the country, but that doesn't stop the opium poppy crop from being the first thing replanted.
Your going to have to take out every country in the world, as well as all your neighbors houses.
Be a whole lot easier to legalize it, just like caffiene is legal. Regulation is far more effective than prohibition.
a cute girl on the cover or ads sells more magazines or newspapers, or tv shows.
sex and celebrity are what tabloids thrive on, and the rest of journalism is fighting a losing battle to hold it's head up about the muck.
No it sounds like Microsoft, and Windows 9x.
MS kept promising the holy grail of a unified OS, and kept stringing along Windows9X while it developed it.
I also remember promises of an "object orientated" operating system from MS, which has been forgotton as that buzzword is no longer in vogue. Likewise, Longhorn will morph into what ever buzz emerges.
5-10 years of "upgrades" to XP sounds about right.
With every article I see on the future of computing from Microsoft, the better an Apple looks.
It is Timothy that we don't trust.
There are people in the world who might actually have a use for this.
Rather than "hello, I am dead", send a message like "would you please call and check on me".
Probably simpler, would be just checking the mailbox, if email hasn't been accessed, then there is a problem, given that most people that are alive, check their mail semi-regularly.
His analysis is based on a mathmatical modeling of the processes.
I'd say that open source does a better job of actually delivering on the promise of security.
This article does point out that it can be done, so MS has no reasons not to do a better job.
Even if MS is barred, because they have broken the law, who buys directly from them?
Isn't most of the stuff sold by OEM's who bundle HW. SW and services together?
Even software only purchases go through a middle man.
I installed 4.5 yesterday. Sigh.
Putting Lynx, in the bios would be nice, it could manage all the features in the BIOS, and support FTP and HTTP installs over the net.
The ability of the BSD's to be installed via a pair of floppies, and a net connect is a very handy feature.
The government gets sales tax on the sale of used items, at least in a store front.
I know Illinois has sales tax on used cars, cause you can't register the vehicle with them, unless the tax is paid.
That is the hallmark of a live performance. When the performer can respond to the audience and their reaction.
A player piano is no different than lip-syncing or any other psuedo-live performance.
Truely great live performances have the performers getting into the audience as much as the audience gets in to them.
Or actually deliver the object orientatied OS, they promised years ago, back when they had one to compete against?
OS/2 had the ability to manage multiple applications per object, a feature I miss.
No, that is for a CRT, standard audio tubes work on a few hundred volts.
And it is the plate of a tube that gets the B+ high voltage, the grid regulates the current flow, and uses a modest voltage.
A tube amplfier has 3 power supples:
A- to power the filaments (6 or 12v AC)
B- Hi voltage DC, in the 300 volt range
C- Low voltage DC, to power the grid circuits
OpenBSD has good commercial support, due to the support of the hardware crypto folks.
Of course, being security companies, they don't talk much about it.
Covad communications, a US based DSL provider, recently emerged from bankruptcy.
In the process, they were able to restructure their debt into equity for the most part, and reduce their operating costs.
The conductor that is capable of handing 300000 amps would be heavy enough for you to cause bodily harm, should you drop it on any part of your self.
Getting crushed to prove the electrical point is a great Darwin canidate.
Yeah, like 25 years ago, with flourescent light bulbs.