In contrast to the French, Germans are actually welcoming, friendly and understanding towards people you don't speak their language fluently. Most people there speak English as a second language, so if you ever go there, you will be able to settle in gracefully.
Actually the French are mostly rude to the Americans who travel to France and speak nothing but English (and somehow expect that everyone there will understand them and get upset if they don't). Generally they welcome people who try to learn their langugage. In fact the gov't there spends millions of francs every year promoting the French language around the world... they seem to be trying to combat the shrinking number of French speakers around the world).
They have a French-gov't-funded-language-promoting-place here in West Los Angeles.
I have no idea what's going on with your comp, but on my 3 year old Athlon LAPTOP with 512mb RAM, I'm getting 0 to 4% CPU usage with 3 tabs of Slashdot open. When I move the mouse around it jumps to 8%.
My understanding is that the principal cause of atmosphere-loss on Mars is not its lower gravity (it was able to retain its atmosphere early in its life) but its lack of a good magnetic field.
Mar's gravity has remained constant over the eons, but it has lost most of its magnetic field... which stems from its smaller size (Mars lost its internal heat and now its iron core is not liquid, thus no more magnetic field). Earth being bigger was able to retain its internal heat and still has a liquid iron core = still got a nice magnetic field.
It is thought that having a decent magnetic field blocks solar wind, which strips away atmospheric molecules.
When my Dad was my age, the loan on his (our) house was up - and he was a factory worker. Today, I make almost four times what he did, and can't even afford a three bedroom house. So much for the American Dream.
The society that your dad lived in, was built by the Greatest Generation... the one that endured the Great Depression and won WWII.
The society that you live in, was built by worst generation (IMO), children of the 60's (Clintons, GWBush etc.)
Few years ago here in Kalifornia, they actually tried this... they imposed a sales tax on "Junk Food". (all food items before this were exempt from sales tax).
It didn't work very well and it was repealed. The problem is, how do you define Junk? You ended up with a situation where Twinkies were taxed, but Ding Dongs were not. What about granola bars? Some of those have a LOT of sugar, rivaling candy bars. Others have no added sugar and are quite healthy.
It would've taken a large COMPETENT team to keep track of and classify all the different food items. Asking the government of LaLaLand to do this was an exercise in futility.
Seriously, he's made peace with Wozniak long since. It broke their friendship, but it's before many current Apple users were even *born*......It's just not relevant to the man today. You fantasize about Steve Jobs at night, don't you?
Why on earth would I buy this piece of crap when I can rent a DVD for less than that? This shouldn't even be legal and if it is then humanity is more screwed up than I thought.
So you're saying that having a less-than-brilliant business model should be illegal? As in, Congress or state legislature should pass a law banning bad business ideas? If so you're just as screwed up as this FlexPlay crap.
I've had 3 Western Digital drives in the past 5 years and they are all still working, no problems.
I don't doubt you've had yours die on you; hard drives fail sometimes. But I don't know that WD are any more prone to failure than other brands. (maybe they are, I just don't know)
IBM Deathstars (now Hitachi) on the other hand, I've heard a lot about.
It would become interesting if this small company has enough guts to stand up to Apple and face them in court.... then we will find out if, legally speaking, software company EULA is worth the paper it's written on.
"By breaking the seal on this CD-ROM you agree that all rights regarding the use of this Software belong to US; that YOU have no rights; that you are only LICENSED for use on ONE computer, which cannot be anything other than Brand XXX model ZZZ computer; you agree to never make a copy of this Software ever; nor decompile nor modify said Software in ANY WAY; and if you do, your we will take your firstborn and eat it for lunch; this agreement shall be valid and binding in pertetuity and may not be revoked except at the whim of XXX Corp"
better idea would be to legislate so that router manufacturers are required to enable wireless encryption by default. Then make it a criminal offense to crack someone else's encrypted network without their permission.
"Most modern stick frame construction houses are vulnerable to a razor knife. Just pick a section of wall and slice a hole. You got plastic siding, a thin tyvek sheet, some cheap ass pressboard stuff,(glorified cardboard really), some spun fiberglass insulation, then drywall. That's all you need, a couple minutes with a razor knife and any thief can get in easy, let alone if they use something like a cordless sawzall thing."
The "pressboard stuff" you're referring to is called OSB (Oriented Strand Board). Yeah it does look cheap, like scraps glued together, but actually it's stronger than either plywood or a wooden plank of the same thickness. (Both plywood and OSB are what they call engineered woods)
Anyways there's no way in hell you're going to punch a hole that you can walk through on an OSB exterior wall with a razor, in any reasonable amount of time. (it will take you hours)
Yes you can saw through it with a power tool, but that applies to any wooden house of any vintage, not just "modern stick frame" ones.
But in this case, there IS a third party being hurt... other players who aren't rich and who grind for themselves. I am such a person who is being hurt. (not in WoW but another game called MapleStory).
Professional gold farming causes massive inflation (because so much easy money is being generated by farmers), making things hard for regular folks to buy. And we have to fight over good training spots with these farmers. And usually lose, because these Chinese farmers are real professionals, they have bots (hacks, etc.) which give them a huge advantage, and they have a lot more time to spend on the game than me.
Which is of course why the game publishers' TOS expressly forbids gold farming and selling game currency (and hacks and bots). And these gold farmers are not playing by the rules, pure and simple.
If you bothered to RTFA, you would've noticed that the "Experts" were, in fact, named.
"Tobin was the FBI lab's chief metallurgy expert for more than two decades. He analyzed metal evidence in major cases that included the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the 1996 explosion of TWA Flight 800 off Long Island."
the only 3 possibilities are that man-made CO2 increases global temperature, decreases global temperature, or has no effect on global temperature. All three have already been posited, and only the increasing temperature theory has a substantial amount of evidence to support it.
Teenagers pissing in the Mississipi river has only 3 possibilities: river level rises, decreases, or has no effect. All three have already been posited, and only the rising level theory has evidence to support it. We must take drastic action now to curb urine deposition or risk bigger floods in the future.
i predict this will become a success since we can use it while lying in bed like a paper magazine and look at photos and stuff, unlike current monitors:thumbsup:
But let's not forget Clinton1 who gave China "most favored trading partner" status and basically allowed them to sell whatever they wanted here without having to open up THEIR markets to US goods. That really opened the floodgates.
We all love to bash Bush and hate America, often with good reason... but please, at least give it *some* thought and make sure there's at least some shred of evidence before blindly and mindlessly criticizing everything USA.
Freedom of speech and lack of government censorship is one of the few things that America still has the best of, more so than anywhere else - even the wondrous paradise called Europe. Here you can express support for an unpopular political ideology or make fun of a crazy religion and still expect to keep your freedom. Not so in many parts of Europe; you can be arrested for doing just that.
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In contrast to the French, Germans are actually welcoming, friendly and understanding towards people you don't speak their language fluently. Most people there speak English as a second language, so if you ever go there, you will be able to settle in gracefully.
Actually the French are mostly rude to the Americans who travel to France and speak nothing but English (and somehow expect that everyone there will understand them and get upset if they don't). Generally they welcome people who try to learn their langugage. In fact the gov't there spends millions of francs every year promoting the French language around the world... they seem to be trying to combat the shrinking number of French speakers around the world).
They have a French-gov't-funded-language-promoting-place here in West Los Angeles.
"if the earth is here 50,000 years from now and some cognitive being starts exploring"
If? How could the earth possibly not be here in 50,000 years? You're confusing human civilization with the planet itself.
I have no idea what's going on with your comp, but on my 3 year old Athlon LAPTOP with 512mb RAM, I'm getting 0 to 4% CPU usage with 3 tabs of Slashdot open. When I move the mouse around it jumps to 8%.
That's lower than IE7.
My understanding is that the principal cause of atmosphere-loss on Mars is not its lower gravity (it was able to retain its atmosphere early in its life) but its lack of a good magnetic field.
Mar's gravity has remained constant over the eons, but it has lost most of its magnetic field... which stems from its smaller size (Mars lost its internal heat and now its iron core is not liquid, thus no more magnetic field). Earth being bigger was able to retain its internal heat and still has a liquid iron core = still got a nice magnetic field.
It is thought that having a decent magnetic field blocks solar wind, which strips away atmospheric molecules.
If they develop boosterspice, birthright lottery won't be far behind.
When my Dad was my age, the loan on his (our) house was up - and he was a factory worker. Today, I make almost four times what he did, and can't even afford a three bedroom house. So much for the American Dream.
The society that your dad lived in, was built by the Greatest Generation... the one that endured the Great Depression and won WWII.
The society that you live in, was built by worst generation (IMO), children of the 60's (Clintons, GWBush etc.)
Few years ago here in Kalifornia, they actually tried this... they imposed a sales tax on "Junk Food". (all food items before this were exempt from sales tax).
It didn't work very well and it was repealed. The problem is, how do you define Junk? You ended up with a situation where Twinkies were taxed, but Ding Dongs were not. What about granola bars? Some of those have a LOT of sugar, rivaling candy bars. Others have no added sugar and are quite healthy.
It would've taken a large COMPETENT team to keep track of and classify all the different food items. Asking the government of LaLaLand to do this was an exercise in futility.
Archimedian Oath
Newtonian Oath
Einsteinian Oath
Bill Nye the Science Guysian Oath
just some science-people names that I know...
Seriously, he's made peace with Wozniak long since. It broke their friendship, but it's before many current Apple users were even *born*...
Why on earth would I buy this piece of crap when I can rent a DVD for less than that? This shouldn't even be legal and if it is then humanity is more screwed up than I thought.
So you're saying that having a less-than-brilliant business model should be illegal? As in, Congress or state legislature should pass a law banning bad business ideas? If so you're just as screwed up as this FlexPlay crap.
I've had 3 Western Digital drives in the past 5 years and they are all still working, no problems.
I don't doubt you've had yours die on you; hard drives fail sometimes. But I don't know that WD are any more prone to failure than other brands. (maybe they are, I just don't know)
IBM Deathstars (now Hitachi) on the other hand, I've heard a lot about.
Scientist in New York already developed a bigger better version
"By breaking the seal on this CD-ROM you agree that all rights regarding the use of this Software belong to US; that YOU have no rights; that you are only LICENSED for use on ONE computer, which cannot be anything other than Brand XXX model ZZZ computer; you agree to never make a copy of this Software ever; nor decompile nor modify said Software in ANY WAY; and if you do, your we will take your firstborn and eat it for lunch; this agreement shall be valid and binding in pertetuity and may not be revoked except at the whim of XXX Corp"
a core2duo laptop with a 120gb HDD and a DVD rewritable drive... not to mention a 15.6inch screen -_-
better idea would be to legislate so that router manufacturers are required to enable wireless encryption by default. Then make it a criminal offense to crack someone else's encrypted network without their permission.
The "pressboard stuff" you're referring to is called OSB (Oriented Strand Board). Yeah it does look cheap, like scraps glued together, but actually it's stronger than either plywood or a wooden plank of the same thickness. (Both plywood and OSB are what they call engineered woods)
Anyways there's no way in hell you're going to punch a hole that you can walk through on an OSB exterior wall with a razor, in any reasonable amount of time. (it will take you hours)
Yes you can saw through it with a power tool, but that applies to any wooden house of any vintage, not just "modern stick frame" ones.
But in this case, there IS a third party being hurt... other players who aren't rich and who grind for themselves. I am such a person who is being hurt. (not in WoW but another game called MapleStory).
Professional gold farming causes massive inflation (because so much easy money is being generated by farmers), making things hard for regular folks to buy. And we have to fight over good training spots with these farmers. And usually lose, because these Chinese farmers are real professionals, they have bots (hacks, etc.) which give them a huge advantage, and they have a lot more time to spend on the game than me.
Which is of course why the game publishers' TOS expressly forbids gold farming and selling game currency (and hacks and bots). And these gold farmers are not playing by the rules, pure and simple.
It would be the equivalent of 22 Internets, or more than 1,000 Libraries of Congress.
You mean W was right all along??
If you bothered to RTFA, you would've noticed that the "Experts" were, in fact, named.
"Tobin was the FBI lab's chief metallurgy expert for more than two decades. He analyzed metal evidence in major cases that included the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the 1996 explosion of TWA Flight 800 off Long Island."
Teenagers pissing in the Mississipi river has only 3 possibilities: river level rises, decreases, or has no effect. All three have already been posited, and only the rising level theory has evidence to support it. We must take drastic action now to curb urine deposition or risk bigger floods in the future.
i predict this will become a success since we can use it while lying in bed like a paper magazine and look at photos and stuff, unlike current monitors :thumbsup:
free software violates 235 MS patents?
Ok just get rid of software patents. Software should've never been permitted to be patented in the first place.
I will agree that Bush2 is a horrible leader.
But let's not forget Clinton1 who gave China "most favored trading partner" status and basically allowed them to sell whatever they wanted here without having to open up THEIR markets to US goods. That really opened the floodgates.
Yes I'm talking about YOU, Taco.
We all love to bash Bush and hate America, often with good reason... but please, at least give it *some* thought and make sure there's at least some shred of evidence before blindly and mindlessly criticizing everything USA.
Freedom of speech and lack of government censorship is one of the few things that America still has the best of, more so than anywhere else - even the wondrous paradise called Europe. Here you can express support for an unpopular political ideology or make fun of a crazy religion and still expect to keep your freedom. Not so in many parts of Europe; you can be arrested for doing just that.
and the city-builders get to strip them for their n00b spaceships...