My 1996 dodge dakota is definitely not the most fuel efficient, coming in at around 20 mpg tops. The market can definitely bear higher gas prices as can be seen from the rising consumption even in light of "skyrocketing" fuel prices. I just put myself in the mindset that gas prices right now are a bargain (cause they are.) I do believe gas prices should be better regulated so that they don't increase 50 cents overnight. Living in california I expect to pay a premium for gas with additional city and state taxes, but fuel fluctuations must be leveled out. This practice has worked wonderfully for electric bills through the summer months. People need to stop driving out of their way to save a few cents per gallon on gas. I have even seen cars lining up for miles with news crews covering the insanity when some promotion is going on at a gas station for cheap gas or a free 10 gallons. We are able to move tons of metal hundreds of miles for less than a hundred bucks, but yet we crave cheaper prices. Admittedly, air quality is much better than before smog laws, but it is a continuing process not a simple fix. Where the hell is my mr. fusion...and flux capacitor...and hoverboard?
the presidential term is so brief that not many things can be effectively accomplished in the short term to garner or relinquish support. i am very interested in who the replacements will be. we will have to endure their decisions as long as they want us to... or at least as long as god wants us to endure them, as in Rehnquist's case.
i setup dyndns in conjunction with ultravnc's sc (single -click) client that auto connects to my home machine. it can be placed in the startup folder and autoconnect when an internet connection is present. i wouldn't mind investing in big brother-esque technology that enabled me to police my own stuff better. of course then the government will probably be able to remotely control my toilet while i am pooping and that is not what the founders of this country would want.
i will be sure to put an official "protected by lojack" sticker on my laptop just like the home security signs outside many houses. i remember a sales guy saying that the sign itself deters like 90% of thieves. personally i feel if someone really wants to make off with my stuff they will, but i am more than happy to invest in proper signage.
...and i was all proud about calling up verizon and getting them to upgrade me to 3Mpbs/768Kbps.
I will always see more and more legitimate uses for such fatty pipes besides the evil bane of copyright infringement.
Short-sightedness certainly does not help the cause for increasing bandwidth, but I am currently finding out that the most interested parties are archivists, not pirates. That is why I am so happy to see libraries as an ally in the realm of p2p.
Personally, I want to be able to have instantaneous access to all my computers and data in all locations as if I were sitting right in front of them. Now we are reaching points to where you can easily access files no matter their displacement from you. Not only will I be able to control any computer from anywhere in real time, but I will also be able to setup my own personal data-on-demand network. This type of globalization sure is exciting to me.
sadly i doubt they differentiate between trackers and actually hosting copyrighted content. i can understand if the copyrighted content was being hosted with bittorrent being the means of distribution, but i highly doubt that is the case.
I don't know if this link has been posted previously, but this is the torrent I found. No way of knowing the legitimacy as of yet.
I found it at thepiratebay.org and currently I don't see the torrent at the site anymore (http://thepiratebay.org/details.php?id=3343842), but here is the hash that azureus gives: 002F6FCC7DE9E96D198F686CDF1ABE8599EEFEAC
Good luck and it is probably a waste of time, but I don't mind wasting the bandwidth.
I love openoffice.org and I am currently using the stable version 1.1.4. I currently have problems with it when making powerpoint presentations that have animations and what not. I commonly run into "out of memory" errors with openoffice.org and frankly they look crappier when using the openoffice.org presentation program. Microsoft Powerpoint 2003 is much better for this purpose. I still use openoffice.org for the most part and recommend it to anyone in need of a really good office suite. Similarly the Gimp is fantastic for all my needs, but I am sure there are some great photoshop features that it can't come close to. The Gimp is far superior for general use and I think the intuitivity is far superior especially when it comes to managing layers (sorry for the digression.) Again openoffice.org works better for me especially with its autocompletion. Both the pay-for and free applications have something to learn from each other, but the free ones are way ahead of the game for all my uses.
I prefer rainlendar from http://www.ipi.fi/~rainy/index.php?pn=projects&pro ject=rainlendar. As mentioned in another post this is only for windows, but the server can be ran on linux also, so possibly there is a way to have a linux client too. I have looked high and low for a mac equivalent, but I only have some various dashboard widgets. If anybody knows of a rainlendar clone for ppc, please point me in the right direction. Thanks.
I tried out fabric softener dryer sheets in the past. And you can know how well the air is flowing just based on the aroma. They are also anti-static, but I am not sure how safe it is to have the fabric softener from the sheets blowing through the computer. I never experienced any problems, but I also didn't do it for very long. I prefer just taking my computer out every 2 or 3 months and blowing it out with compressed air (from an air compressor, I hate those teeny cans.)
people need to understand that "even" distributions are not random. clusters exist when there is true randomness. learned this little snippet of knowledge from an episode of numb3rs when an algorithm was being devised to locate a serial rapist turned murderer based on his seemingly random series of attacks. so i guess people would prefer listening to a single song from a randomly selected artist from their collection, instead of a random song.
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My 1996 dodge dakota is definitely not the most fuel efficient, coming in at around 20 mpg tops. The market can definitely bear higher gas prices as can be seen from the rising consumption even in light of "skyrocketing" fuel prices. I just put myself in the mindset that gas prices right now are a bargain (cause they are.) I do believe gas prices should be better regulated so that they don't increase 50 cents overnight. Living in california I expect to pay a premium for gas with additional city and state taxes, but fuel fluctuations must be leveled out. This practice has worked wonderfully for electric bills through the summer months. People need to stop driving out of their way to save a few cents per gallon on gas. I have even seen cars lining up for miles with news crews covering the insanity when some promotion is going on at a gas station for cheap gas or a free 10 gallons. We are able to move tons of metal hundreds of miles for less than a hundred bucks, but yet we crave cheaper prices. Admittedly, air quality is much better than before smog laws, but it is a continuing process not a simple fix. Where the hell is my mr. fusion...and flux capacitor...and hoverboard?
the presidential term is so brief that not many things can be effectively accomplished in the short term to garner or relinquish support. i am very interested in who the replacements will be. we will have to endure their decisions as long as they want us to... or at least as long as god wants us to endure them, as in Rehnquist's case.
i setup dyndns in conjunction with ultravnc's sc (single -click) client that auto connects to my home machine. it can be placed in the startup folder and autoconnect when an internet connection is present. i wouldn't mind investing in big brother-esque technology that enabled me to police my own stuff better. of course then the government will probably be able to remotely control my toilet while i am pooping and that is not what the founders of this country would want.
i will be sure to put an official "protected by lojack" sticker on my laptop just like the home security signs outside many houses. i remember a sales guy saying that the sign itself deters like 90% of thieves. personally i feel if someone really wants to make off with my stuff they will, but i am more than happy to invest in proper signage.
...and i was all proud about calling up verizon and getting them to upgrade me to 3Mpbs/768Kbps. I will always see more and more legitimate uses for such fatty pipes besides the evil bane of copyright infringement. Short-sightedness certainly does not help the cause for increasing bandwidth, but I am currently finding out that the most interested parties are archivists, not pirates. That is why I am so happy to see libraries as an ally in the realm of p2p. Personally, I want to be able to have instantaneous access to all my computers and data in all locations as if I were sitting right in front of them. Now we are reaching points to where you can easily access files no matter their displacement from you. Not only will I be able to control any computer from anywhere in real time, but I will also be able to setup my own personal data-on-demand network. This type of globalization sure is exciting to me.
sadly i doubt they differentiate between trackers and actually hosting copyrighted content. i can understand if the copyrighted content was being hosted with bittorrent being the means of distribution, but i highly doubt that is the case.
Thank you providing that screenshot.
I found it at thepiratebay.org and currently I don't see the torrent at the site anymore (http://thepiratebay.org/details.php?id=3343842), but here is the hash that azureus gives: 002F6FCC7DE9E96D198F686CDF1ABE8599EEFEAC
Good luck and it is probably a waste of time, but I don't mind wasting the bandwidth.
I love openoffice.org and I am currently using the stable version 1.1.4. I currently have problems with it when making powerpoint presentations that have animations and what not. I commonly run into "out of memory" errors with openoffice.org and frankly they look crappier when using the openoffice.org presentation program. Microsoft Powerpoint 2003 is much better for this purpose. I still use openoffice.org for the most part and recommend it to anyone in need of a really good office suite. Similarly the Gimp is fantastic for all my needs, but I am sure there are some great photoshop features that it can't come close to. The Gimp is far superior for general use and I think the intuitivity is far superior especially when it comes to managing layers (sorry for the digression.) Again openoffice.org works better for me especially with its autocompletion. Both the pay-for and free applications have something to learn from each other, but the free ones are way ahead of the game for all my uses.
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slashdot me at http://www.sledgehammercomputers.com/ then totally obliterate me with remote help requestsI tried out fabric softener dryer sheets in the past. And you can know how well the air is flowing just based on the aroma. They are also anti-static, but I am not sure how safe it is to have the fabric softener from the sheets blowing through the computer. I never experienced any problems, but I also didn't do it for very long. I prefer just taking my computer out every 2 or 3 months and blowing it out with compressed air (from an air compressor, I hate those teeny cans.)
people need to understand that "even" distributions are not random. clusters exist when there is true randomness. learned this little snippet of knowledge from an episode of numb3rs when an algorithm was being devised to locate a serial rapist turned murderer based on his seemingly random series of attacks. so i guess people would prefer listening to a single song from a randomly selected artist from their collection, instead of a random song.