Ok...editorials are fine...analysis is fine...if it's disclaimed and unbiased. Years ago it wasn't acceptable to inject a quick shot of opinion into a news cast (well, at least if it was apparent). Now, every news bit is laced with left or right leaning ideas. How many times can one hear the phrase "some might say..." or "many people are saying..." on CNN? It's disgusting, and is obvious to anyone with any sort of critical thought in their head. Raw data can be very useful. I would rather know the raw data than someone's have baked politically directed opinion. If a media outlet is going to analyze something 'for me', I demand it be objective. Anything else is absolutely useless because the raw data is obfuscated, and at that point it may as well not be reported at all.
Yeah...and that's the problem...people are impressionable, and the media outlets know this. It's exploited for personal gain. Oh well...I just live here.
I was thinking about that too. I imagine rocket fuel being translucent, which won't likely absorb much energy (though I could be wrong...it might be solid. If it is, hopefully it could be made white to reflect most of the energy). If the guidance and explosive is the only thing that is opaque, it would make for a tiny target. Hopefully that'd be enough.
I'd agree with all those points...it could be anything...it's all speculation at this point. Could it be that money changes hands more frequently now? Could it be that there is the same amount of drug use, but because money constantly circulates (I presume that only when a bill is damaged will it be removed from circulation) all circulated bills will eventually be contaminated?
Statistics are all fine and good, but they have to have context and meaning. There's no way to properly infer cocaine usage just by the fact that a specific percentage of a given currency has trace amounts. Maybe a lot of people put very small amounts on their bills. Maybe a few people put very large amounts on their bills. How could that be measured properly? Context in TFA's case can only mean that cocaine users also use currency. That is all.
I don't want to feed the troll, but I have to say...
Anyone that would express, in public no less, such a statement is inherently less important by whichever ignorant metric a person like you would measure such things.
Take anything and everything that Canwest reports with several large grains of salt. This is a media company that forbids the editors of their local newspapers from writing their own articles. At Canwest all opinions must come from head office.
I think this will be a fantastic use for transparent aluminum. If you can't see the thing, you can't shoot it down. Even if you could see it (to aim at), it won't absorb the energy from the laser too much.
Yeah...agreed. It would be better to say "90mpg"...in that when you have a full charge, you can run 40miles, then another 50 on your first gallon of gasoline...it makes just as much sense, too (which is to say not that much).
Exactly. I'd rather give my money to the power company (it's public here...well, at least it's supposed to be) than the oil companies. I'd like to see the look on their faces when they realize we only have to buy $5.00 of gas a week, rather than $100.
The funny thing is, they will still need to make their profit quota (just like the automotive paint industry..it's out of control!...so the price of gas is going to skyrocket...heh...which will push the rest of the population to electric/variants of such...which will put themselves out of business permanently).
Oh boy, oh boy...I can't wait!
This -is- a gasoline car though...in the strictest sense. It has a gas tank, and a little engine that charges the batteries...it's actual range is something like 350miles or so (batteries = 40, engine-charging-batteries-while-you-drive = 310miles), total.
A good heater shouldn't require more than around 1.5 kilowatts, the size of a space heater that can keep a small room toasty. The Volt's engine is rated at 111 kilowatts.
So running the heater shouldn't cost more than around 1% of your total range.
While you do have decent math skills, I don't think you have thought your answer through. Though the engine is engineered to produce such power, I doubt that it operates at that level at all times. Consider if the heater is on, but the car is not moving. When the batteries are drained, the car would not have 99% of its range remaining, so we can only draw the conclusion that it will have at most 99% of its range while using an electric heater. The actual percentage use would depend on the average power used during the distance traveled for a given charge. In any event, if 1.5kW is enough to heat a car (that's about what a regular hair dryer uses), I would say it is likely not to use more than 10%, which would likely be around 4 or 5 miles of the total on-battery-only range. That would only end up costing an extra 1/10th of a gallon of gas ($0.30) on that 40 mile range.
Now that GM has fully transitioned from company-that-makes-cars-for-profit into union-employment-welfare-program, it will never go away unless the government itself does.
Nothing truer has ever been spoken. I haven't laughed at a post in a while, until yours. Unfortunately, once I stopped I realized that it was at my (our) own expense.
Yeah...this is MS pushing their will on others. I'm not quite sure why Ebay would capitulate so easily though. I can't imagine that Ebay buys so much software directly from MS that it would benefit them to such a degree so as to be more beneficial to piss off their customers.
Unfortunately, we all can't swear off of MS products. I'm glad you were able to, though.
I'm sorry to hear about MS's heavy handed tactics. According to their terms of sale (as if they are allowed to dictate that...they get the user on the other end by stating that without the license being sold with hardware it isn't valid), some piece of hardware must be sold with the COA. It's not so precise, either...anything like a CPU, motherboard, hard drive, or memory can qualify. I've seen companies sell cheap (like 128mb) memory sticks to stave MS away.
Some COAs are marked as "HP Only" or "Acer Only", but if you have a bone-stock copy of Windows XP (any service pack really, but it has to have the most recent license key dll file because MS recently "ran out" of key combinations with the old file) they will always work. It may have to be phone activated, but I've never had a problem (I've done quite a few). If all you have is the CD that came with a computer (such as a Sony laptop), it will likely be coded to that hardware, and installation on another computer is near impossible.
In short: A license key obtained from a COA will work with an original (as in from MS, not a computer manufacturer) media disc. MS's original bone-stock CD doesn't have any code in it to "check" the BIOS at all.
I'm quite certain that applies to only those people that use Bell's DNS servers. I switched immediately to a public/free DNS service, and I no longer get my NX responses hijacked.
A) It's about 4 clicks, the first being a button labeled "About this page".
B) The opt-out survives only as long as the cookie. It is only an opt-out for that user, it's not even system-wide (as cookies belong to the user, not the machine)
C) It's not a true opt-out of the broken NX DNS-breaking response system, it's an opt-out of the automatic search page. The "service" provides an approximation (fabricated to appear as though one's browser is providing it...very sneaky) of the "domain not found" page of the web browser of its user. If the cookie is removed, behaviour reverts back to the ISP's original surreptitious functionality.
So what happens if I am a user that refuses all cookies? I am forced to partake in their domain hijacking.
Bell did not notify their customers in any way shape or form that this was going to or did happen.
It's not easy (or even possible in some cases) to change the DNS entry in their provided modem. I was able to do so because I am very technically inclined. As I sit here, I think of a more important side-effect. This hijacks the browser's "search from the address bar" function. If a browser gets a response that the domain exists, it'll negate the user's preference to use Google, Yahoo or whomever else. This, in essence, is Bell being a queue barger, it wants to be first in the search line.
Instead of a ~$65 refund, I bet you could peel the sticker off and sell the COA to someone for $100. MS may not like it, but it'll activate on another computer and won't ever fail WGA. You end up with an extra $35 in your pocket, and your friend will have slightly cheaper oem COA. This is especially handy because one cannot buy XP retail anymore.
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Ok...editorials are fine...analysis is fine...if it's disclaimed and unbiased. Years ago it wasn't acceptable to inject a quick shot of opinion into a news cast (well, at least if it was apparent). Now, every news bit is laced with left or right leaning ideas. How many times can one hear the phrase "some might say..." or "many people are saying..." on CNN? It's disgusting, and is obvious to anyone with any sort of critical thought in their head. Raw data can be very useful. I would rather know the raw data than someone's have baked politically directed opinion. If a media outlet is going to analyze something 'for me', I demand it be objective. Anything else is absolutely useless because the raw data is obfuscated, and at that point it may as well not be reported at all.
Yeah...and that's the problem...people are impressionable, and the media outlets know this. It's exploited for personal gain.
Oh well...I just live here.
I was thinking about that too. I imagine rocket fuel being translucent, which won't likely absorb much energy (though I could be wrong...it might be solid. If it is, hopefully it could be made white to reflect most of the energy). If the guidance and explosive is the only thing that is opaque, it would make for a tiny target. Hopefully that'd be enough.
I'd agree with all those points...it could be anything...it's all speculation at this point. Could it be that money changes hands more frequently now? Could it be that there is the same amount of drug use, but because money constantly circulates (I presume that only when a bill is damaged will it be removed from circulation) all circulated bills will eventually be contaminated?
Statistics are all fine and good, but they have to have context and meaning. There's no way to properly infer cocaine usage just by the fact that a specific percentage of a given currency has trace amounts. Maybe a lot of people put very small amounts on their bills. Maybe a few people put very large amounts on their bills. How could that be measured properly? Context in TFA's case can only mean that cocaine users also use currency. That is all.
Anyone that would express, in public no less, such a statement is inherently less important by whichever ignorant metric a person like you would measure such things.
block all canadian access to facebook. put an explanation of why with the contact person from the canadian privacy comission. problem solved.
awesome idea...then no one would be able to delete their own accounts...and they couldn't complain either...right?
Take anything and everything that Canwest reports with several large grains of salt. This is a media company that forbids the editors of their local newspapers from writing their own articles. At Canwest all opinions must come from head office.
Why do I need opinions from the news?
I think this will be a fantastic use for transparent aluminum. If you can't see the thing, you can't shoot it down. Even if you could see it (to aim at), it won't absorb the energy from the laser too much.
Yeah...agreed. It would be better to say "90mpg"...in that when you have a full charge, you can run 40miles, then another 50 on your first gallon of gasoline...it makes just as much sense, too (which is to say not that much).
Exactly. I'd rather give my money to the power company (it's public here...well, at least it's supposed to be) than the oil companies. I'd like to see the look on their faces when they realize we only have to buy $5.00 of gas a week, rather than $100.
The funny thing is, they will still need to make their profit quota (just like the automotive paint industry..it's out of control!...so the price of gas is going to skyrocket...heh...which will push the rest of the population to electric/variants of such...which will put themselves out of business permanently).
Oh boy, oh boy...I can't wait!
Buy a TDI from VW and you get forty plus for around 22k.
Too bad that diesel is way worse for pollution...
If you have any other questions, feel free to ask. I can provide detailed equations like E=mc^2 and c=pi*r^2 if you need them.
How does the speed of light relate to pi? *ducks*
This car will be perfectly fine in the winter.
A good heater shouldn't require more than around 1.5 kilowatts, the size of a space heater that can keep a small room toasty. The Volt's engine is rated at 111 kilowatts.
So running the heater shouldn't cost more than around 1% of your total range.
While you do have decent math skills, I don't think you have thought your answer through. Though the engine is engineered to produce such power, I doubt that it operates at that level at all times. Consider if the heater is on, but the car is not moving. When the batteries are drained, the car would not have 99% of its range remaining, so we can only draw the conclusion that it will have at most 99% of its range while using an electric heater. The actual percentage use would depend on the average power used during the distance traveled for a given charge. In any event, if 1.5kW is enough to heat a car (that's about what a regular hair dryer uses), I would say it is likely not to use more than 10%, which would likely be around 4 or 5 miles of the total on-battery-only range. That would only end up costing an extra 1/10th of a gallon of gas ($0.30) on that 40 mile range.
Now that GM has fully transitioned from company-that-makes-cars-for-profit into union-employment-welfare-program, it will never go away unless the government itself does.
Nothing truer has ever been spoken. I haven't laughed at a post in a while, until yours. Unfortunately, once I stopped I realized that it was at my (our) own expense.
evilbit?
Because it's not TCP/IP? Just sayin...
Unfortunately, we all can't swear off of MS products. I'm glad you were able to, though.
Wow...I haven't seen XP retail in ages! Thanks for the link. OEM is still around, which is fantastic in my book.
Some COAs are marked as "HP Only" or "Acer Only", but if you have a bone-stock copy of Windows XP (any service pack really, but it has to have the most recent license key dll file because MS recently "ran out" of key combinations with the old file) they will always work. It may have to be phone activated, but I've never had a problem (I've done quite a few). If all you have is the CD that came with a computer (such as a Sony laptop), it will likely be coded to that hardware, and installation on another computer is near impossible.
In short: A license key obtained from a COA will work with an original (as in from MS, not a computer manufacturer) media disc. MS's original bone-stock CD doesn't have any code in it to "check" the BIOS at all.
I'm talking XP...Vista has a different key/activation model.
I'm quite certain that applies to only those people that use Bell's DNS servers. I switched immediately to a public/free DNS service, and I no longer get my NX responses hijacked.
Yes, this is seriously broken.
A) It's about 4 clicks, the first being a button labeled "About this page".
B) The opt-out survives only as long as the cookie. It is only an opt-out for that user, it's not even system-wide (as cookies belong to the user, not the machine)
C) It's not a true opt-out of the broken NX DNS-breaking response system, it's an opt-out of the automatic search page. The "service" provides an approximation (fabricated to appear as though one's browser is providing it...very sneaky) of the "domain not found" page of the web browser of its user. If the cookie is removed, behaviour reverts back to the ISP's original surreptitious functionality.
So what happens if I am a user that refuses all cookies? I am forced to partake in their domain hijacking.
Bell did not notify their customers in any way shape or form that this was going to or did happen.
It's not easy (or even possible in some cases) to change the DNS entry in their provided modem. I was able to do so because I am very technically inclined. As I sit here, I think of a more important side-effect. This hijacks the browser's "search from the address bar" function. If a browser gets a response that the domain exists, it'll negate the user's preference to use Google, Yahoo or whomever else. This, in essence, is Bell being a queue barger, it wants to be first in the search line.
Instead of a ~$65 refund, I bet you could peel the sticker off and sell the COA to someone for $100. MS may not like it, but it'll activate on another computer and won't ever fail WGA. You end up with an extra $35 in your pocket, and your friend will have slightly cheaper oem COA. This is especially handy because one cannot buy XP retail anymore.
The two guys that started google said that they'd run the company in the most benevolent way. Now, it's positioned to take over the world.
Does anyone know if CentOS 4 will have an update for BIND to ver 9.4.3-P3, 9.5.1-P3 or 9.6.1-P1?