If someone has some type of damage that causes them to INVOLUNTARILY mimic criminal behavior, does that make them a criminal? Even if it doesn't make them a criminal that doesn't mean they can't be locked up. At least here in the uk people who are mentally ill and a danger to society as a result get "sectioned under the mental health act" which basically means they get locked up (but in a mental health institution rather than a prison). I presume most countries have some similar provision.
Lead is added to lower the melting point of the mixture, and it will go into the water I bet there are still plenty of properties that have lead water piping too,
the power connectors are ordinary sata power connectors (note: many desktop sata drives have the old 4 pin connector as well as the specific sata one, laptop ones don't).
You do indeed need a mounting bracket and at least with the suppliers I use getting said mounting bracket requires buying a laptop IDE to desktop IDE adaptor as well.
but do they actually help? look at what has happened to nuclear power which is probably our best short to medium term for transfering base load power off cheap but pollouting coal. Renewables work to a point but storage is a major issue and the more unpredicable renewables you add to a grid the harder it gets to add more. The one renweable that is an exception to this is dam based hydro but that also upsets the eco-nuts.
As I understand it X based desktops have two clipboards. the select and middle click is handy sometimes but other times it is a PITA. having to be very careful not to select test while clearing out a text box to paste something. The other clipboard is more windows like but some apps don't support it (or at least have no obvious way to use it).
also I often seem to have problems with the select and middle click method with some apps, most notablly kate seems to act very intermitantly when used as a source for it.
OS-X for current macs does not support classic macos apps of any form. OS-X was first release in 2001 6 years is nothing to shout about in terms of backwards compatibility.
On linux libc6 was introduced in 1996, most current distros don't ship libc5 so binaries older than that can't be easilly installed on current linux.
Afaict 64 bit windows vista supports most 32 bit windows apps, 32 bit windows was current for well over a decade (i'll be generous and say 1995 since windows 95 was the first widespread 32 bit windows version). I think 32 bit windows vista can even run 16 bit windows apps provided they are well behaved.
Not saying there isn't stuff that is better than windows in terms of backwards compatibility but some of your examples are plain wrong.
Afaict most PC purchasers buy primrally on CPU speed and price with maybe a nod towards ram size. Most PC vendors therefore optimise thier systems to contain the fastest processor as cheaply as possible.
If you want something better designed the mac pro is apparently also very good in terms of keeping itself cool without being too noisy (don't have one myself but I know someone who does). The lower end macs aren't bad on the noise front either.
antimatter is nasty in the sense that when it hits matter it releases lots of energy. weight for weight it would make nukes look tame.
However antimatter does not to our knowlage occour in significant quantities naturally and it isn't feasible to make enough of it to be dangerous (we have to make it from energy and I don't think the process is very efficiant).
Please, card manufacturers, make the jump to PCI-E PCI express x1 is about twice as fast as PCI if you are transferring data in one direction only and even better if you are transferring data in both directions at once because it is full duplex (PCI is only half duplex) os it is faster but not earth shatteringly so.
Game physics calculations will probablly move onto the graphics card which is on nice fast PCI Express x16.
SATA, scsi and gigabit ethernet cards are already making the move to PCI express, graphics cards are there already. I can't think of any other common cards that require high bandwidth.
the trouble is as you say sat stealing could be made very dangerous, you might steal a couple that way but then you grab one with a bomb on it and bye-bye shuttle.
and bringing sats down for repair just isn't worth it at the current cost of shuttle launches, neither in most cases is repairing them.
One problem is that the mod system give you a way to mod up good jokes, but no way to mod down bad ones. ("Overrated" is not supposed to be used for that, though it sometimes is.) So anybody who has a reaction to a story that's even vaguely humorous jumps in with it, because theres a good chance they'll be modded up. otoh funny doesn't give karma but overrated does take it away.
That sounds very much like the situation with virus scanners, yes they work to a point but they won't stop crap that is newer than your latest definition update.
You reached the end of the demo. Normally at the end of a demo you would put in some kind of indication that yes the demo had indeed ended. Such screens would normally also give you some more information about what you would get from the full version.
Not having that seems like a pretty glaring ommision to me.
Afaict you would normally design the counterweight to balance the car plus some of the load, it means you need power to go down empty but it reduces the size of the motor you need and improves efficiancy if the lift usually runs loaded.
as you say regenerative breaking can improve things further.
Bad apples chase out the good? Most customers do not have good information either because it is not availible, they belive that the effort to get it would not be worth the savings from using it or they are just plain lazy.
The easiest thing to compare on is the headline price.
The natural result of this is that the supplier with the lowest headline price will win, even if they provide that low headline price by having lots of hidden surcharges and providing terrible service. This is especially true for startups who have no reputation of providing good quality.
Furthermore the short-termism of the stock market means that those who were previously high quality suppliers will often lower thier quality to make a quick buck even though it will damage thier reputation over the longer term (sony's lower end products are a good example of this).
I don't invest in companies that believe dividends are somehow 'good'. if you are paying out dividends, it means you have no better thing to do with the cash you already have. If you aren't capable of putting money to good use in a productive manner, I might as well just say screw the stock and go find a company with real growth opportunities. If a company goes through it's whole life cycle from inception to bankrupcy without ever paying a dividend than it's investors have on average lost. If you invest in a company that you belive will never pay dividends then you are making your profit by screwing other investors less smart than you not from the company you are investing in.
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but are fake telephone numbers?
to put into perspective just how potent antimatter is.
lets say 1kg of antimatter anihilates 1kg of antimater.
e=mc^2
c=3*10^8
e=18*10^16 joules
180 petajoules!
or to put it in more familiar units a kilo of antimatter would be roughly equivilent to a 4 megaton nuke.
If someone has some type of damage that causes them to INVOLUNTARILY mimic criminal behavior, does that make them a criminal?
Even if it doesn't make them a criminal that doesn't mean they can't be locked up. At least here in the uk people who are mentally ill and a danger to society as a result get "sectioned under the mental health act" which basically means they get locked up (but in a mental health institution rather than a prison). I presume most countries have some similar provision.
Lead is added to lower the melting point of the mixture, and it will go into the water
I bet there are still plenty of properties that have lead water piping too,
Not with XP service pack 3.
so what? pirates who want to avoid wga can simply avoid sp3, I don't think there is anything earth shattering in it.
the power connectors are ordinary sata power connectors (note: many desktop sata drives have the old 4 pin connector as well as the specific sata one, laptop ones don't).
You do indeed need a mounting bracket and at least with the suppliers I use getting said mounting bracket requires buying a laptop IDE to desktop IDE adaptor as well.
but do they actually help? look at what has happened to nuclear power which is probably our best short to medium term for transfering base load power off cheap but pollouting coal. Renewables work to a point but storage is a major issue and the more unpredicable renewables you add to a grid the harder it gets to add more. The one renweable that is an exception to this is dam based hydro but that also upsets the eco-nuts.
Yes, compiling source, even autoconf'd is not ideal
Personally I tend to think autoconf is more trouble than it's worth.
most people at least in the west get windows bundled anyway and with XP wga is easilly avoided by simply disabling automatic updates.
As I understand it X based desktops have two clipboards. the select and middle click is handy sometimes but other times it is a PITA. having to be very careful not to select test while clearing out a text box to paste something. The other clipboard is more windows like but some apps don't support it (or at least have no obvious way to use it).
also I often seem to have problems with the select and middle click method with some apps, most notablly kate seems to act very intermitantly when used as a source for it.
OS-X for current macs does not support classic macos apps of any form. OS-X was first release in 2001 6 years is nothing to shout about in terms of backwards compatibility.
On linux libc6 was introduced in 1996, most current distros don't ship libc5 so binaries older than that can't be easilly installed on current linux.
Afaict 64 bit windows vista supports most 32 bit windows apps, 32 bit windows was current for well over a decade (i'll be generous and say 1995 since windows 95 was the first widespread 32 bit windows version). I think 32 bit windows vista can even run 16 bit windows apps provided they are well behaved.
Not saying there isn't stuff that is better than windows in terms of backwards compatibility but some of your examples are plain wrong.
and another 1/14 to get it back again making a total ping time of 1/7 of a second.
and light in fiber moves slower than light in free space.
Of course UK to USA isn't as much as halfway round the world.
Afaict most PC purchasers buy primrally on CPU speed and price with maybe a nod towards ram size. Most PC vendors therefore optimise thier systems to contain the fastest processor as cheaply as possible.
If you want something better designed the mac pro is apparently also very good in terms of keeping itself cool without being too noisy (don't have one myself but I know someone who does). The lower end macs aren't bad on the noise front either.
antimatter is nasty in the sense that when it hits matter it releases lots of energy. weight for weight it would make nukes look tame.
However antimatter does not to our knowlage occour in significant quantities naturally and it isn't feasible to make enough of it to be dangerous (we have to make it from energy and I don't think the process is very efficiant).
The proper fix is to either explicitly disable LM hashes or use long passwords that won't generate them.
I'm not sure why MS doesn't make this the default, stuff old enough to need the LM hash must be getting pretty rare by now.
Please, card manufacturers, make the jump to PCI-E
PCI express x1 is about twice as fast as PCI if you are transferring data in one direction only and even better if you are transferring data in both directions at once because it is full duplex (PCI is only half duplex) os it is faster but not earth shatteringly so.
Game physics calculations will probablly move onto the graphics card which is on nice fast PCI Express x16.
SATA, scsi and gigabit ethernet cards are already making the move to PCI express, graphics cards are there already. I can't think of any other common cards that require high bandwidth.
the trouble is as you say sat stealing could be made very dangerous, you might steal a couple that way but then you grab one with a bomb on it and bye-bye shuttle.
and bringing sats down for repair just isn't worth it at the current cost of shuttle launches, neither in most cases is repairing them.
One problem is that the mod system give you a way to mod up good jokes, but no way to mod down bad ones. ("Overrated" is not supposed to be used for that, though it sometimes is.) So anybody who has a reaction to a story that's even vaguely humorous jumps in with it, because theres a good chance they'll be modded up.
otoh funny doesn't give karma but overrated does take it away.
That sounds very much like the situation with virus scanners, yes they work to a point but they won't stop crap that is newer than your latest definition update.
You reached the end of the demo.
Normally at the end of a demo you would put in some kind of indication that yes the demo had indeed ended. Such screens would normally also give you some more information about what you would get from the full version.
Not having that seems like a pretty glaring ommision to me.
Presumablly one lift could be shared between several apartments and also used for moving large items other than vehircles up and down the building.
Afaict you would normally design the counterweight to balance the car plus some of the load, it means you need power to go down empty but it reduces the size of the motor you need and improves efficiancy if the lift usually runs loaded.
as you say regenerative breaking can improve things further.
The thing is MS has pretty much killed all competitors apart from opensource.
Bad apples chase out the good?
Most customers do not have good information either because it is not availible, they belive that the effort to get it would not be worth the savings from using it or they are just plain lazy.
The easiest thing to compare on is the headline price.
The natural result of this is that the supplier with the lowest headline price will win, even if they provide that low headline price by having lots of hidden surcharges and providing terrible service. This is especially true for startups who have no reputation of providing good quality.
Furthermore the short-termism of the stock market means that those who were previously high quality suppliers will often lower thier quality to make a quick buck even though it will damage thier reputation over the longer term (sony's lower end products are a good example of this).
I don't invest in companies that believe dividends are somehow 'good'. if you are paying out dividends, it means you have no better thing to do with the cash you already have. If you aren't capable of putting money to good use in a productive manner, I might as well just say screw the stock and go find a company with real growth opportunities.
If a company goes through it's whole life cycle from inception to bankrupcy without ever paying a dividend than it's investors have on average lost. If you invest in a company that you belive will never pay dividends then you are making your profit by screwing other investors less smart than you not from the company you are investing in.