Um, that is the point. He "fixed it" from your way too optimistic scenario to a far more realistic one. They could just as easily take away your computer, especially if it was the computer you used to commit the offense.
Tell me about it, the really sad thing is many thousands of years ago someone invented "the wheel" and to this DAY we still basically use circular devices to deliver oh so many things.
Are you actually running Windows Media Server? You say Vista, but that isn't Media Server.
I run Vista on three PCs and for the most part think it is pretty decent, the one glaring problem is the inability to save my folder viewing preferences in the same way as every version of Windows before. Now if I change the viewing properties of one folder it effects all folders. Completely stupid since different folders have different optimum viewing properties. The only reason I still bother though is because I use Vista Media Center on my main PC and like it a lot more than the one in XP MCE. I've used many different media front ends and it is probably my favorite (I liked Meedio a lot too, before Yahoo killed it off).
Yea, but that can get so complicated...you never know what type of drugs people want. The only surefire solution is to only listen to electronica and send the artists ecstasy. Of course most of those guys aren't on a label anyway. You could always listen to country and send them gallons of cheap whiskey and beer, but the shipping will eat you alive.
It is. I think it is funny that no other poster pointed that out when M.C. Escher is such a common reference here and yet an organism named after him is blatantly misspelled in the title of a submission...
I personally know a guy right now serving lots of time for embezzlement, he had a great job (far better than mine and I do OK), a great house (he had it before he started stealing and could have easily paid for it with his salary), two kids he cares for very much, and a wife he seemingly loves. From my perspective he seemed to enjoy life quiet a bit also and he was a generally happy person.
Why again did he steal millions of dollars? According to your theory he shouldn't have, but he did. People will ALWAYS commit crimes because they always think they are smart enough to get away with it. A basic part of the human psyche is that we all think somewhere deep down that we are better in some way than everyone else. Part of human development is actually realizing that not only are you not the only non-automaton but that others actually have lucid thoughts as well, there is no way to completely abandon the previous thought that we are individually special.
Actually, since you are being an ass...crime is best prevented by chips embedded in our skulls that detonate when either tampered with or when ever you think "bad thoughts." Ultimate prevention.
Since neither that nor what you are proposing is very likely to happen, what the GP said is true. Having cops be at places where crime is likely is a good deterrent to crime.
Dude, there is a LOT of black and Hispanic porn online, you just have to know where to look. Specialization is the key, the predominant audience is white or Asian, so the "average" site shows that...but there are LOTS of black or Hispanic sites.
Yea, no shit. My wife has put together several PCs, a few of which she picked and ordered all the parts for. Without me looking over her shoulder at that. I never thought it was exactly news worthy and she is far better looking than Glenda (no offense Glenda, you are better looking than the girlfriends of probably 90% of ExtremeTech's audience...).
Remember that when your very rough approximation (Sun, Moon, Earth, Apophis, and possibly Jupiter as well...pretty complicated problem) of a near miss hits the Earth.
"But sir, my approximation said it would miss us by thousands of miles"
"Son, do you know how close thousands of miles is on an interplanetary scale?"
"um, well yea"
boom
Numerical approximations ARE useful for roughly predicting the orbit of things, but once something needs to be even remotely accurate more than a very short time period out you have to actually solve the equation...which itself is only an approximation, just a better one.
The area I live in will soon stop growing if a major interstate isn't around the city, currently there is interstate access only on one side of town and that side can't grow much because of mountains. With an interstate on the east side of town the city could get around a LOT better and growth would continue at the current rapid rate which would be good for the local and state economy. This loop will cost less than $300 million and will help an area of 500,000+ people, how can you say that this city of 7,000 is more deserving? I'm sure there are many areas in this country far more deserving than ours as well.
Decoding a 320x240 H.264 stream is a LONG way from decoding a 1920x1080 H.264 stream. 76,800 versus 2,073,600 pixels per frame or 27 times the workload. Are Ipod videos full frame rate or reduced (I honestly don't know)? If reduced that further relieves the processor in it.
Yea, seriously...you would think a couple.50 caliber machine guns might have been a good idea, oh and some actual weaponry for those choppers too. Oh well, it's not called a plot device for nothing.
I would say a misspelled word is far more likely than a "non-word" since from context he surely meant consensus which is most certainly a word. If you are going to try to be a smart ass, at least be smart about it.
Trust me, new life forms are created constantly in labs across the country. Mostly they just have a few genes inserted to produce some novel product or more of a product than they already produce...much like these will do. Bioreactors are really cool and many of the processes use modified life forms.
http://www.wireless.att.com/coverageviewer/ disagrees. The majority of the country in terms of shear area IS GSM and the overwhelming majority of the country as far as population is GSM. Now, their 3G service coverage sucks, pretty much 800K+ pop metros and very select other places.
I live in a state that does something similar (Arkansas), but you have grossly misrepresented what they actually do (here at least). Sure they have checkpoints at the weigh stations but they also carry around equipment to check trucker's tanks for taxed gas. The point though is they are checking for taxed gas from any state, they don't care where it was bought. Fuel bought for off road purposes is not taxed (say you own a large farm, tractors are very fuel inefficient and there is no reason to pay road taxes for something that will never drive on the road), but it is illegal to then sell this fuel to truckers for on-road use. THIS is what they are checking for. Fuel sold as off road only has an additive added that is easily detectable.
You forgot that the customer service was still just as bad as what we have now... The only difference is that on the other end of the phone was an American that could care less about your complaint instead of an Indian that could care less about your complaint.
When large cities or states as a whole complained about things, Ma Bell fixed them when YOU complained about things they told you to stick it and deal with it, they did it with a smile and a thank you but they still did it.
I would rather pay $20 a month for my phone service and get shitty service than pay $100 a month (or more) for my phone service and get shitty service and also know that under no circumstances will I ever be given a chance to change.
Hey, I don't believe in God at all so everything I do is for the good of myself, my family, or my society and nothing else. Does that mean I don't understand the concepts of good and evil? Man am I glad I stayed out of church all those years, it might save my "soul".
Ass backward Christians are screwing up with world all around us.
Nuclear drives, all the benefit of current electricity generated ion drives without that pesky waiting time (at least in their larger and most grand forms...).
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Um, that is the point. He "fixed it" from your way too optimistic scenario to a far more realistic one. They could just as easily take away your computer, especially if it was the computer you used to commit the offense.
Most recent motherboards have their nics hanging off of the PCI Express bus actually.
Tell me about it, the really sad thing is many thousands of years ago someone invented "the wheel" and to this DAY we still basically use circular devices to deliver oh so many things.
Are you actually running Windows Media Server? You say Vista, but that isn't Media Server.
I run Vista on three PCs and for the most part think it is pretty decent, the one glaring problem is the inability to save my folder viewing preferences in the same way as every version of Windows before. Now if I change the viewing properties of one folder it effects all folders. Completely stupid since different folders have different optimum viewing properties. The only reason I still bother though is because I use Vista Media Center on my main PC and like it a lot more than the one in XP MCE. I've used many different media front ends and it is probably my favorite (I liked Meedio a lot too, before Yahoo killed it off).
Yea, but that can get so complicated...you never know what type of drugs people want. The only surefire solution is to only listen to electronica and send the artists ecstasy. Of course most of those guys aren't on a label anyway. You could always listen to country and send them gallons of cheap whiskey and beer, but the shipping will eat you alive.
It is. I think it is funny that no other poster pointed that out when M.C. Escher is such a common reference here and yet an organism named after him is blatantly misspelled in the title of a submission...
I personally know a guy right now serving lots of time for embezzlement, he had a great job (far better than mine and I do OK), a great house (he had it before he started stealing and could have easily paid for it with his salary), two kids he cares for very much, and a wife he seemingly loves. From my perspective he seemed to enjoy life quiet a bit also and he was a generally happy person.
Why again did he steal millions of dollars? According to your theory he shouldn't have, but he did. People will ALWAYS commit crimes because they always think they are smart enough to get away with it. A basic part of the human psyche is that we all think somewhere deep down that we are better in some way than everyone else. Part of human development is actually realizing that not only are you not the only non-automaton but that others actually have lucid thoughts as well, there is no way to completely abandon the previous thought that we are individually special.
Actually, since you are being an ass...crime is best prevented by chips embedded in our skulls that detonate when either tampered with or when ever you think "bad thoughts." Ultimate prevention.
Since neither that nor what you are proposing is very likely to happen, what the GP said is true. Having cops be at places where crime is likely is a good deterrent to crime.
Dude, there is a LOT of black and Hispanic porn online, you just have to know where to look. Specialization is the key, the predominant audience is white or Asian, so the "average" site shows that...but there are LOTS of black or Hispanic sites.
He isn't talking about a doctor, just an ultrasound tech.
Yea, no shit. My wife has put together several PCs, a few of which she picked and ordered all the parts for. Without me looking over her shoulder at that. I never thought it was exactly news worthy and she is far better looking than Glenda (no offense Glenda, you are better looking than the girlfriends of probably 90% of ExtremeTech's audience...).
Remember that when your very rough approximation (Sun, Moon, Earth, Apophis, and possibly Jupiter as well...pretty complicated problem) of a near miss hits the Earth.
"But sir, my approximation said it would miss us by thousands of miles"
"Son, do you know how close thousands of miles is on an interplanetary scale?"
"um, well yea"
boom
Numerical approximations ARE useful for roughly predicting the orbit of things, but once something needs to be even remotely accurate more than a very short time period out you have to actually solve the equation...which itself is only an approximation, just a better one.
Didn't Black and White 2 come out like a year and or so ago?
Maybe not as much as you think. I haven't done the math, but 2-5C water can carry off a LOT of heat, maybe more than -50C air.
Same here, but mine isn't a circle it is a tiny 0.5 mm dot in the center of the scar on my left palm.
The area I live in will soon stop growing if a major interstate isn't around the city, currently there is interstate access only on one side of town and that side can't grow much because of mountains. With an interstate on the east side of town the city could get around a LOT better and growth would continue at the current rapid rate which would be good for the local and state economy. This loop will cost less than $300 million and will help an area of 500,000+ people, how can you say that this city of 7,000 is more deserving? I'm sure there are many areas in this country far more deserving than ours as well.
Decoding a 320x240 H.264 stream is a LONG way from decoding a 1920x1080 H.264 stream. 76,800 versus 2,073,600 pixels per frame or 27 times the workload. Are Ipod videos full frame rate or reduced (I honestly don't know)? If reduced that further relieves the processor in it.
Yea, seriously...you would think a couple .50 caliber machine guns might have been a good idea, oh and some actual weaponry for those choppers too. Oh well, it's not called a plot device for nothing.
I would say a misspelled word is far more likely than a "non-word" since from context he surely meant consensus which is most certainly a word. If you are going to try to be a smart ass, at least be smart about it.
Trust me, new life forms are created constantly in labs across the country. Mostly they just have a few genes inserted to produce some novel product or more of a product than they already produce...much like these will do. Bioreactors are really cool and many of the processes use modified life forms.
http://www.wireless.att.com/coverageviewer/ disagrees. The majority of the country in terms of shear area IS GSM and the overwhelming majority of the country as far as population is GSM. Now, their 3G service coverage sucks, pretty much 800K+ pop metros and very select other places.
I live in a state that does something similar (Arkansas), but you have grossly misrepresented what they actually do (here at least). Sure they have checkpoints at the weigh stations but they also carry around equipment to check trucker's tanks for taxed gas. The point though is they are checking for taxed gas from any state, they don't care where it was bought. Fuel bought for off road purposes is not taxed (say you own a large farm, tractors are very fuel inefficient and there is no reason to pay road taxes for something that will never drive on the road), but it is illegal to then sell this fuel to truckers for on-road use. THIS is what they are checking for. Fuel sold as off road only has an additive added that is easily detectable.
You forgot that the customer service was still just as bad as what we have now... The only difference is that on the other end of the phone was an American that could care less about your complaint instead of an Indian that could care less about your complaint.
When large cities or states as a whole complained about things, Ma Bell fixed them when YOU complained about things they told you to stick it and deal with it, they did it with a smile and a thank you but they still did it.
I would rather pay $20 a month for my phone service and get shitty service than pay $100 a month (or more) for my phone service and get shitty service and also know that under no circumstances will I ever be given a chance to change.
Hey, I don't believe in God at all so everything I do is for the good of myself, my family, or my society and nothing else. Does that mean I don't understand the concepts of good and evil? Man am I glad I stayed out of church all those years, it might save my "soul".
Ass backward Christians are screwing up with world all around us.
Nuclear drives, all the benefit of current electricity generated ion drives without that pesky waiting time (at least in their larger and most grand forms...).