Tell that to the people who remember the Dustbowl in the US. I promise you, a drought severe enough and not a damned thing will grow. Plants need more than just fertile soil to grow.
Now, that having been said, I firmly believe that Stalin starved a lot of people for his own reasons.
The shows are saved as MPEG-2 and at least the internal cards do the MPEG-2 encoding in hardware. I don't know anything about the USB tuners, but even if they were software encoders, that is a hell of a lot less processor load than you describe. There are no currently available single CPUs that can encode 11 HDTV resolution video streams into MPEG-4 (even ASP, much less AVC) in anything approaching realtime. I'm not actually sure if there is a single CPU that could encode just ONE 1080i video stream into MPEG-4 ASP in real time, but I'm not positive on that (and it is getting close even if not...).
Actually, to the best of my knowledge, elements heavier than Fe are NEVER formed inside of a main sequence star and only supernova and other exotic events form them.
Are you serious? I would agree with you if all they did was install a modchip, but they also included 77 games. That most certainly IS wrong, not just illegal.
The difference is that you can't just search the network for all the files, when you search you are only searching the list of known trackers that particular site has indexed. So private channels exist which are not indexed (at least not by any web site that is publically accessible...hence private;).
In Kazaa, ed2k, Gnutella, etc., when I add a file to the network anyone can see it. In BT, only people that actually have the.torrent file can download the file. I can post the.torrent on mininova or something and have them share the wealth, or I can only give it to my friends and then only they can download it.
Actually, your solution may be better than you have considered. Considering the typical anger rates of Americans at some point you will have a giant internal war that kills millions of people. This will do two things, first war is almost always good for the economy and second this will primarily eliminate the unemployed.
Well, in the most completely true technical sense radioactive decay and fission are both ultimately products of fusion in suns other than ours. Without stars we would never have the heavy elements (technically, without nova we would never have them...but we wouldn't have nova without stars either...). So, ultimately tidal and fusion are your only non-solar power sources.
A properly formed e-mail from a reputable company nearly completely eliminates all possible intercepts. At least as many as can be eliminated by simply going to the website in the first place without an e-mail prompt.
case in point: I recently received an actual e-mail from PayPal, this e-mail suggested that my on-file credit card was about to expire. The first thing that keyed me in and made me actually read this mail was that they referenced the last four digits of said card. Next, they suggested that I logon to their website and update the credit card's expiration date. Most importantly they didn't even offer a link to paypal.com, they simply said to logon and then gave instructions as to how to change it. Not the first link in the whole e-mail. This effectively eliminates fraud as a possibility. While it is still possible that paypal.com itself could be hijacked or some other esoteric scheme, the 99.9% possibilities are all eliminated simply by not providing any link.
I believe he was refering to a recent comment by President Bush where he used the "hard work" "working hard' circular reasoning to make a bad situation seem good to idiots.
What did you expect from someone who calls themselves "AvitarX."
You would think they would check the spelling before committing to a user name. Of course I think many people name their children without knowing the first thing about English linguistics and that is a rather more important decision.
I believe you are mostly correct. There is obviously a substantial amount of heat generated by fission, but it isn't why the Earth is still hot. Also, I don't know if anyone has ever linked the latent heat of Earth to pulling us out of an ice age which is a purely atmospheric phenomenon. It is more closely linked to water and CO2 cycling I believe.
I can second that. As horrible as it sounds, the evacuees have helped out the economy of my area somewhat. We wish we actually had a few thousand more. Right now we are sitting at 2% or so unemployment and the services sector was where it was worst. There were literally more jobs than people, that is obviously still true but it has helped somewhat. From the newspaper stories, it seems like the vast majority of evacuees are happy here (of course that is based on a decidedly biased viewpoint).
BTW, I live in Northwest Arkansas, a state which has sheltered more evacuees than any other state besides Texas (and also which FEMA didn't know HAD any evacs until yesterday:/) and also doesn't have any large metro areas like Texas to help absorb "the burden."
OK, how many Phish concerts are their in a year? Even if you include the total of people for ALL the big groupie touring bands, the number of people that attend those things is microscopic compared to just Tunica....much less AC or Vegas. The "few people" that over do casino gambling are a minority compared to the overall population, BUT if you look at the people at a typical casino you will quickly see that a sizable minority are definitely the "waiting on the next pay check to go play" variety. While attending college I was a blackjack dealer at a local casino, so I have a pretty good idea of the people that play at at least THAT casino. I have been to most of the big casinos in all three of the big gambling destinations too. I'm definitely not a big gambler, I am probably in the majority of people. For people like me, it really is about entertainment and that is great. I also like a day at the horse track too, it can really be fun. Even at the horse track (which isn't nearly as bad as the casino) there are plenty of people around scraping up their pocket change to place that one last $2 bet so they can keep on going.
Don't misunderstand my post, I don't think they should ban casino gambling. Quite the contrary, I believe that an adult should have the right to choose how to spend their money. That means if they want to buy crack, gamble, stay drunk all day, etc then so be it. I'm simply saying the typical casino has a sizable population of losers.
Yea, but there is a big difference between going to a concert every three or four months and dropping $100 for tickets versus spending $400 a night for 7-10 nights a month at a casino.
There are many people at a casino that are there purely for entertainment, you can tell who they are...they look like they are having fun. Look at the other 60-75% though and they look like drones trying for the big win so they can quit working at McDonald's or whatever...
No, I'm nearly 100% positive that ALL the money will go to the ILECs.
The argument is that when the original telco wire was put down, there were only a handful of metro areas, now there are many more. Before (outside of the cities), there were x number of customers per linear foot of copper, now there are 2x number of customers per linear foot of fiber. That pretty much guarantees a higher return on investment. While everyone already has a telephone, we aren't talking about telephone connections we are talking about ubiquitous broadband communications. Not everyone has broadband and a lot of the people who do would really enjoy the potential bandwidth that fiber offers. More than that though, it will allow the telcos to prevent customers from leaving them to join up with the cable companies. Right now, you can get a complete package from most cable companies (telephone, TV, and broadband) but telcos can't currently offer TV, so you have alliances between satellite TV companies and telcos. Don't you think that SBC et al would rather have that be a 100% in house offering? That is something they could do with fiber, hell they could offer a lot MORE than the cable companies.
Some would argue that our solar system very much IS charted to become part of the accretion disk at the center of our galaxy. Now that won't happen until after the sun burns up all of it's fuel, but you have to keep the big picture in mind when you get afraid of the small stuff;)
I would imagine that government assistance would be somewhat forthcoming in a REAL upgrade (like FTTH in ~75% of US households). Another thing you have to remember is that the bulk of the original telco rollout happened when the US population was around 120M and not the 297M that it now is. That equals a significantly improved return on investment, also the economic climate is better (this also figures into the government assistance, they reason that this class of improvement will yield a significant impact on our economy...so they would be very willing to offer a helping hand).
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Tell that to the people who remember the Dustbowl in the US. I promise you, a drought severe enough and not a damned thing will grow. Plants need more than just fertile soil to grow.
Now, that having been said, I firmly believe that Stalin starved a lot of people for his own reasons.
The shows are saved as MPEG-2 and at least the internal cards do the MPEG-2 encoding in hardware. I don't know anything about the USB tuners, but even if they were software encoders, that is a hell of a lot less processor load than you describe. There are no currently available single CPUs that can encode 11 HDTV resolution video streams into MPEG-4 (even ASP, much less AVC) in anything approaching realtime. I'm not actually sure if there is a single CPU that could encode just ONE 1080i video stream into MPEG-4 ASP in real time, but I'm not positive on that (and it is getting close even if not...).
Actually, to the best of my knowledge, elements heavier than Fe are NEVER formed inside of a main sequence star and only supernova and other exotic events form them.
14 karat is actually a long way from pure gold (it is actually slightly more than half gold), I think you meant 24 karat gold (which is 99.99% gold).
Yea, because high school graduates never make mistakes...even after they are "highered".
In case your sarcasm mode isn't enabled, it would be hire instead of higher.
Are you serious? I would agree with you if all they did was install a modchip, but they also included 77 games. That most certainly IS wrong, not just illegal.
The difference is that you can't just search the network for all the files, when you search you are only searching the list of known trackers that particular site has indexed. So private channels exist which are not indexed (at least not by any web site that is publically accessible...hence private ;).
.torrent file can download the file. I can post the .torrent on mininova or something and have them share the wealth, or I can only give it to my friends and then only they can download it.
In Kazaa, ed2k, Gnutella, etc., when I add a file to the network anyone can see it. In BT, only people that actually have the
Actually, your solution may be better than you have considered. Considering the typical anger rates of Americans at some point you will have a giant internal war that kills millions of people. This will do two things, first war is almost always good for the economy and second this will primarily eliminate the unemployed.
we don't make them self replicating and capable of lift-off. Among many galactic societies, that is considered the ultimate rudeness.
Well, in the most completely true technical sense radioactive decay and fission are both ultimately products of fusion in suns other than ours. Without stars we would never have the heavy elements (technically, without nova we would never have them...but we wouldn't have nova without stars either...). So, ultimately tidal and fusion are your only non-solar power sources.
Not so fast, you didn't have to completely correct yourself. Last month the USPTO actually upheld the patent last month.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050929-536
Looks like he has a nice and long post history to me. Hell, he had two accepted story submissions last YEAR...
A properly formed e-mail from a reputable company nearly completely eliminates all possible intercepts. At least as many as can be eliminated by simply going to the website in the first place without an e-mail prompt.
case in point:
I recently received an actual e-mail from PayPal, this e-mail suggested that my on-file credit card was about to expire. The first thing that keyed me in and made me actually read this mail was that they referenced the last four digits of said card. Next, they suggested that I logon to their website and update the credit card's expiration date. Most importantly they didn't even offer a link to paypal.com, they simply said to logon and then gave instructions as to how to change it. Not the first link in the whole e-mail. This effectively eliminates fraud as a possibility. While it is still possible that paypal.com itself could be hijacked or some other esoteric scheme, the 99.9% possibilities are all eliminated simply by not providing any link.
So limited and finite are not nearly the same word? So I guess infinite and unlimited are also different?
I believe he was refering to a recent comment by President Bush where he used the "hard work" "working hard' circular reasoning to make a bad situation seem good to idiots.
What did you expect from someone who calls themselves "AvitarX."
You would think they would check the spelling before committing to a user name. Of course I think many people name their children without knowing the first thing about English linguistics and that is a rather more important decision.
I believe you are mostly correct. There is obviously a substantial amount of heat generated by fission, but it isn't why the Earth is still hot. Also, I don't know if anyone has ever linked the latent heat of Earth to pulling us out of an ice age which is a purely atmospheric phenomenon. It is more closely linked to water and CO2 cycling I believe.
I can second that. As horrible as it sounds, the evacuees have helped out the economy of my area somewhat. We wish we actually had a few thousand more. Right now we are sitting at 2% or so unemployment and the services sector was where it was worst. There were literally more jobs than people, that is obviously still true but it has helped somewhat. From the newspaper stories, it seems like the vast majority of evacuees are happy here (of course that is based on a decidedly biased viewpoint).
:/) and also doesn't have any large metro areas like Texas to help absorb "the burden."
BTW, I live in Northwest Arkansas, a state which has sheltered more evacuees than any other state besides Texas (and also which FEMA didn't know HAD any evacs until yesterday
You mean Mississippi, right?
OK, how many Phish concerts are their in a year? Even if you include the total of people for ALL the big groupie touring bands, the number of people that attend those things is microscopic compared to just Tunica....much less AC or Vegas. The "few people" that over do casino gambling are a minority compared to the overall population, BUT if you look at the people at a typical casino you will quickly see that a sizable minority are definitely the "waiting on the next pay check to go play" variety. While attending college I was a blackjack dealer at a local casino, so I have a pretty good idea of the people that play at at least THAT casino. I have been to most of the big casinos in all three of the big gambling destinations too. I'm definitely not a big gambler, I am probably in the majority of people. For people like me, it really is about entertainment and that is great. I also like a day at the horse track too, it can really be fun. Even at the horse track (which isn't nearly as bad as the casino) there are plenty of people around scraping up their pocket change to place that one last $2 bet so they can keep on going.
Don't misunderstand my post, I don't think they should ban casino gambling. Quite the contrary, I believe that an adult should have the right to choose how to spend their money. That means if they want to buy crack, gamble, stay drunk all day, etc then so be it. I'm simply saying the typical casino has a sizable population of losers.
Yea, but there is a big difference between going to a concert every three or four months and dropping $100 for tickets versus spending $400 a night for 7-10 nights a month at a casino.
There are many people at a casino that are there purely for entertainment, you can tell who they are...they look like they are having fun. Look at the other 60-75% though and they look like drones trying for the big win so they can quit working at McDonald's or whatever...
No, I'm nearly 100% positive that ALL the money will go to the ILECs.
The argument is that when the original telco wire was put down, there were only a handful of metro areas, now there are many more. Before (outside of the cities), there were x number of customers per linear foot of copper, now there are 2x number of customers per linear foot of fiber. That pretty much guarantees a higher return on investment. While everyone already has a telephone, we aren't talking about telephone connections we are talking about ubiquitous broadband communications. Not everyone has broadband and a lot of the people who do would really enjoy the potential bandwidth that fiber offers. More than that though, it will allow the telcos to prevent customers from leaving them to join up with the cable companies. Right now, you can get a complete package from most cable companies (telephone, TV, and broadband) but telcos can't currently offer TV, so you have alliances between satellite TV companies and telcos. Don't you think that SBC et al would rather have that be a 100% in house offering? That is something they could do with fiber, hell they could offer a lot MORE than the cable companies.
Some would argue that our solar system very much IS charted to become part of the accretion disk at the center of our galaxy. Now that won't happen until after the sun burns up all of it's fuel, but you have to keep the big picture in mind when you get afraid of the small stuff ;)
I would imagine that government assistance would be somewhat forthcoming in a REAL upgrade (like FTTH in ~75% of US households). Another thing you have to remember is that the bulk of the original telco rollout happened when the US population was around 120M and not the 297M that it now is. That equals a significantly improved return on investment, also the economic climate is better (this also figures into the government assistance, they reason that this class of improvement will yield a significant impact on our economy...so they would be very willing to offer a helping hand).
That's his whole point there. Not that he just trolled, but that he will get modded it anyway.
" I seem to be getting many troll and overrated mods for posts that don't deserve them."