My wedding band is made of tungsten carbide, I'm in the military and wanted something that would take a beating.
It's prety scratch resistant so far (only been married 2 years). They did warn me though, if my hand ever swelled up from an injury or whatever that it can't be cut off like a gold ring, they'd have to put my hand in a vise and crush the ring until it shattered.
Windows x64 flash works just fine. I've also had it running on Ubuntu x64, you just need to install the 32 bit version of firefox and the 32 bit flash player, it's a pain but it works fine with a little tweaking to get it all set up. Besides, do you really NEED the 64 bit firefox?
I played piano for 16 years, memorized (and forgotten) hundreds of songs in that time. Yet rarely could I tell you (without a piano sitting in front of me) what any of the notes were that I was playing. For me it was a form of procedural memory. Your hands start in this position, then after a certain time they move to this position... repeat a few hundred times and that's Chopin's Prelude in D flat. It's interesting to me because I'm VERY bad at memorizing things like facts and numbers, but procedurally my fingers are good at things.
In my case it's carried over to IT. If I'm working at a server or trying to fix a workstation or whatever, my fingers hit Win-r and type lusrmgr.msc and hit enter. Or type emerge --sync. Or whatever, often without even thinking about it. I know what's wrong with the system, my fingers know how to fix it even if I can't necessarily verbalize what it is I need to do.
And that difference is HUGE from a difficulty standpoint, if you screw up in GH it makes it much more difficult to get back on track. This is even more the case in Rock Band, if the drummer or the bass player screw up, it tends to screw somebody else up. Personally thats why I love Rock Band, more than any other game I've played (except maybe end game raids in EQ or WoW) you need to really cooperate and work as a team to get through it.
Just a thought, but I'm guessing the number of people who are not genetically pre-disposed to ANY diseases AT ALL is very small. I mean really, there's 3 BILLION base sequence pairs and I know they don't all do stuff but I'd bet if you look hard enough you can find something wrong with everyone.
Additionally, it seems logical that people who get bad news in the results would be MORE likely to take better care of themselves, and those that got good news would be less likely to take care of themselves.
Seeing as how the 3 leading causes of death in the US (heart disease, cancer, and stroke) are preventable (eat better, stop smoking, eat better) (and before I get flamed I KNOW it isn't that simple... shut up I'm making a point), it would seem that it makes better business sense to penalize the "healthy" people more.
Bill Clinton has said: "Carlos Slim is the most important philanthropist in the world most people have never heard of".
Not that I particularly like Mr. Clinton, but the line above that says
As part of his philanthropic work, he heads the Latin America Development Fund project, and his foundations have more than 10 billion dollars budget for the next years.
Note it doesn't say he gave them all that money personally, but if he did that's fully 1/5 of his total net worth, which is pretty impressive.
As far as I see it, he's rich as hell and sure maybe his business tactics seem to come straight from MS's playbook, but he's giving a lot back. For that matter, so is our good friend Mr. Gates, who according to his wikipedia article has given away a cool 29 billion since 2000 (HALF his current net worth).
This could arguably be an excellent test case for Google's "principles". If they do win the spectrum, how well they handle it and how open they make could really show us if they're willing to put their money where their mouth is.
Only problem with that is occasionally there's a vulnerability in firefox. I prefer KeePass for that reason. It sits nicely on a USB flash drive, it's open source (and significantly smaller than firefox if you actually wanted to go through the code), and it uses good encryption (AES/Twofish). It's really a nice little app
The biggest reason I still go to their site is the cpu/gpu charts. google toms cpu charts if you haven't seen them. Whenever I'm building a computer for someone and I need to know at a glance which $SUPERAWESOMECPUNAME is better and if it's worth the price.
I tend to buy the top of the line everything when I buy a computer, and it generally lasts me about 2 years. 2 years ago I put this computer together, AMD 3200+ x64, 2 GB ram, ASUS a8n-sli-deluxe with a gf7950 GT and 3 160GB SATA2 drives (I was going to RAID them but while the onboard chipset supports it, IO became a huge bottleneck). At the moment I'm only playing WoW and Hellgate London but both are running maxed out settings without any problems (aside from Hellgate's buggyness).
I played Vanguard for awhile too, at midrange settings it handled the game at around 40 fps (but this was during beta and from what I've heard they've done TONS of optimization since I last played)
Point is, I could probably build this computer now for a couple hundred and it works very well. It seems game manufacturers are getting better at supporting other than top of the line hardware lately. I'm sure I've spent more than $1500 on beer or gas or eating out instead of cooking dinner because I didn't feel like it or whatever...
I can connect to the internet on my computer using PAN routed over bluetooh on my cell phone. In fact on buisness if I'm stuck in a crappy hotel w/o free wireless I've done this to play WoW
Selective Availability was turned off years ago (late 90's I think, Clinton did it anyway) and more likely than not will not be turned on for one very simple reason, the FAA would freak out.
All the airliners rely on GPS not to mention shipping industries and god knows what else. And IIRC a few years back the DoD said they wouldn't purchase any more replacement satellites that had the capability for SA
It was free as in beer, not free as in speech. People abused that by reselling and redistributing the information which was against the TOS. As a result the company stopped offering the the service to everyone, including those who played by the rules. There is are many victims (including myself) who paid the cost of spending a few hours changing all the settings to get schedules direct to work, and $15 every 3 months. All because some jerks couldn't play by the rules and decided instead to make money off something that wasn't theirs.
So yeah, it is theft. Even if it was free for the taking, there were some caveats. To put it in/. terms, just because downloading GPL'd code is free doesn't mean you can use it however you want, you are required to follow the rules of the GPL.
My High School (I graduated in 02) was using Token Ring until I was in about 10th grade (2000). So yes. And I imagine that a government entity, which in my experience so far (I work for them) changes INCREDIBLY slowly, it wouldn't be too far out of the realm of possibility for that to be the case...
By NRO do you mean the National Reconnaissance Office? Which I don't think has anything to do with the AF right? (I don't really know but I am curious)
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My wedding band is made of tungsten carbide, I'm in the military and wanted something that would take a beating.
It's prety scratch resistant so far (only been married 2 years). They did warn me though, if my hand ever swelled up from an injury or whatever that it can't be cut off like a gold ring, they'd have to put my hand in a vise and crush the ring until it shattered.
Windows x64 flash works just fine. I've also had it running on Ubuntu x64, you just need to install the 32 bit version of firefox and the 32 bit flash player, it's a pain but it works fine with a little tweaking to get it all set up. Besides, do you really NEED the 64 bit firefox?
I for one welcome our knife-handed bullet-proof non-bacon-making swine overlords
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I played piano for 16 years, memorized (and forgotten) hundreds of songs in that time. Yet rarely could I tell you (without a piano sitting in front of me) what any of the notes were that I was playing. For me it was a form of procedural memory. Your hands start in this position, then after a certain time they move to this position... repeat a few hundred times and that's Chopin's Prelude in D flat. It's interesting to me because I'm VERY bad at memorizing things like facts and numbers, but procedurally my fingers are good at things.
In my case it's carried over to IT. If I'm working at a server or trying to fix a workstation or whatever, my fingers hit Win-r and type lusrmgr.msc and hit enter. Or type emerge --sync. Or whatever, often without even thinking about it. I know what's wrong with the system, my fingers know how to fix it even if I can't necessarily verbalize what it is I need to do.
And that difference is HUGE from a difficulty standpoint, if you screw up in GH it makes it much more difficult to get back on track. This is even more the case in Rock Band, if the drummer or the bass player screw up, it tends to screw somebody else up. Personally thats why I love Rock Band, more than any other game I've played (except maybe end game raids in EQ or WoW) you need to really cooperate and work as a team to get through it.
Just a thought, but I'm guessing the number of people who are not genetically pre-disposed to ANY diseases AT ALL is very small. I mean really, there's 3 BILLION base sequence pairs and I know they don't all do stuff but I'd bet if you look hard enough you can find something wrong with everyone.
Additionally, it seems logical that people who get bad news in the results would be MORE likely to take better care of themselves, and those that got good news would be less likely to take care of themselves.
Seeing as how the 3 leading causes of death in the US (heart disease, cancer, and stroke) are preventable (eat better, stop smoking, eat better) (and before I get flamed I KNOW it isn't that simple... shut up I'm making a point), it would seem that it makes better business sense to penalize the "healthy" people more.
but hell, maybe I'm just cynical
As far as I see it, he's rich as hell and sure maybe his business tactics seem to come straight from MS's playbook, but he's giving a lot back. For that matter, so is our good friend Mr. Gates, who according to his wikipedia article has given away a cool 29 billion since 2000 (HALF his current net worth).
This could arguably be an excellent test case for Google's "principles". If they do win the spectrum, how well they handle it and how open they make could really show us if they're willing to put their money where their mouth is.
I rather wouldn't... it would mean firefox is phoning home and telling the mothership things about me.
as far as usage goes, I've had firefox open with anywhere between 5 and 15 tabs for the last 24 hours and it's currently using 140mb.
I'm not entirely certain, but I don't *think* a tin foil hat is going to provide much protection.
My two cents anyway
Hello. I'm William Shatner. And I'm. A Shaman.
Only problem with that is occasionally there's a vulnerability in firefox. I prefer KeePass for that reason. It sits nicely on a USB flash drive, it's open source (and significantly smaller than firefox if you actually wanted to go through the code), and it uses good encryption (AES/Twofish). It's really a nice little app
You are relying on a jury of your peers to understand the difference between mitochondrial DNA and genetic DNA?
You understand that by definition, half of the population has an IQ of less than 100 right?
(going for funny here, not flamebait)
The biggest reason I still go to their site is the cpu/gpu charts. google toms cpu charts if you haven't seen them. Whenever I'm building a computer for someone and I need to know at a glance which $SUPERAWESOMECPUNAME is better and if it's worth the price.
I tend to buy the top of the line everything when I buy a computer, and it generally lasts me about 2 years. 2 years ago I put this computer together, AMD 3200+ x64, 2 GB ram, ASUS a8n-sli-deluxe with a gf7950 GT and 3 160GB SATA2 drives (I was going to RAID them but while the onboard chipset supports it, IO became a huge bottleneck). At the moment I'm only playing WoW and Hellgate London but both are running maxed out settings without any problems (aside from Hellgate's buggyness).
I played Vanguard for awhile too, at midrange settings it handled the game at around 40 fps (but this was during beta and from what I've heard they've done TONS of optimization since I last played)
Point is, I could probably build this computer now for a couple hundred and it works very well. It seems game manufacturers are getting better at supporting other than top of the line hardware lately. I'm sure I've spent more than $1500 on beer or gas or eating out instead of cooking dinner because I didn't feel like it or whatever...
I can connect to the internet on my computer using PAN routed over bluetooh on my cell phone. In fact on buisness if I'm stuck in a crappy hotel w/o free wireless I've done this to play WoW
So yeah his points/post are quite valid
chances are 50/50 that you will live out an average lifespan.
fixed that for ya.
GDP of Nigeria = $191 Billion Bill Gates Net Worth = $56 Billion He could purchase a little more than half the country
Selective Availability was turned off years ago (late 90's I think, Clinton did it anyway) and more likely than not will not be turned on for one very simple reason, the FAA would freak out.
All the airliners rely on GPS not to mention shipping industries and god knows what else. And IIRC a few years back the DoD said they wouldn't purchase any more replacement satellites that had the capability for SA
It was free as in beer, not free as in speech. People abused that by reselling and redistributing the information which was against the TOS. As a result the company stopped offering the the service to everyone, including those who played by the rules. There is are many victims (including myself) who paid the cost of spending a few hours changing all the settings to get schedules direct to work, and $15 every 3 months. All because some jerks couldn't play by the rules and decided instead to make money off something that wasn't theirs.
/. terms, just because downloading GPL'd code is free doesn't mean you can use it however you want, you are required to follow the rules of the GPL.
So yeah, it is theft. Even if it was free for the taking, there were some caveats. To put it in
My High School (I graduated in 02) was using Token Ring until I was in about 10th grade (2000). So yes. And I imagine that a government entity, which in my experience so far (I work for them) changes INCREDIBLY slowly, it wouldn't be too far out of the realm of possibility for that to be the case...
By NRO do you mean the National Reconnaissance Office? Which I don't think has anything to do with the AF right? (I don't really know but I am curious)
Link now goes to a 404... I think they saw us all laughing at them and took it down