Possibly it had problems meeting emissions standards? That's just a guess though. Two stroke engines aren't typically as clean as four stroke engines, although I don't know what technical marvels they implemented to get 168mpg.
That said, if it's burning 10% of the fuel of an SUV it can't have been that bad...
Be a man and take responsibility for your actions.
That still won't get you the job though will it?
If you had two applicants for a job that were pretty much equal in all respects except that one had been interviewed by the feds for something untoward and one hadn't, which one would you hire? I'd certainly lean towards the one that never got caught for anything... even if he's just as devious, at least he's not dumb enough to get caught!
You are comparing turning the suns energy into electricity to turning the suns energy into hydrocarbons and then turning that into electricity, and you are discounting the other uses for the hydrocarbons.
Taking carbon out of the air and cracking water into hydrogen and oxygen takes a whole lot of energy and the plants do it better than they can in the lab, when the only energy input is the sun.
There is a pretty big difference between $500,000 and $200,000,000. So which is it Air Force?
If the company you are contracting to estimates that a project is going to take somewhere between 0.5 million and 200 million, guess which of those two numbers is going to be more correct?
Any laptop with USB ports (eg any recent laptop) can run at least 9 non-builtin monitors - external vga + 8 x USB-VGA. USB to VGA adapters have been around for ages and the one i'm familiar with supports up to 8 such devices connected. Other brands or other models may support more. Last time I used one it even played youtube video's quite well - I was expecting it to render text just fine but to bog down doing much else but it surprised me.
Additionally, there are devices available to split a single VGA output into multiple, eg 2048x768 => 2 x 1024x768.
I was testing under Windows, but i'm sure it claimed to support Linux.
My guess is that this results in a situation where probably >10% of the population is currently guilty of a serious offence that they may well have no knowledge they have committed.
Well... you 10% had better start calling the authorities. Now.
I think it would be higher than 10% too. If you've ever done a google search for anything a little risque it's quite possible than some illegal images were in there, which means they are on your computer.
Also, what about all that spam you get? Some of it could contain illegal images. Even if you never opened it, and have long since deleted it, there still could be offending data stored in your computer somewhere.
I think everyone should call the authorities right now, just to be sure.
I made a call to HP (abbreviated to protect the company:) recently to have a failed disk replaced under warranty. I went to great lengths to explain that I was a consultant acting on behalf of the customer, gave HP all of my details and all of the customers details etc. I could hear constant typing in the background so something was being entered somewhere. About 20 minutes later I got a call from my office saying they had HP on the line asking who the onsite contact was, who the customer was, and where the part should be sent.
It's not just hospitals... I think I can generalise the conclusion of the article - if the solution (IT or otherwise) isn't designed/built right, and people don't know how to use it right, then it isn't going to work right and is going to make peoples lives harder not eaiser. Seems kind of obvious when you put it that way though.
Just to emphasize this, even scattered reflections from a Class IV/4 laser can blind/burn you. Light is light, and bright light is bright light whether it is emitted or reflected.
But unless client and server agree on a private key in advance, by offline means, a Man in the Middle can still proxy the key negotiation and access the plaintext.
I can't help but think that that might be just a little illegal unless it was done by law enforcement with a warrant, as would any form of decrypting an encrypted transmission.
Yup. It's pretty easy to disappear. Don't go out where you'll be seen. Give traces where you aren't.
You know, it's not very hard to send a trusted friend your credit card and cell phone, and tell him "Use the card every few days to pull out $40, and deposit the cash once a month at a different branch.. Call your girlfriend/house/friend from my cell every few days just to chat."
Depends on how badly they want you vs how badly you want to stay hidden... "JWSmythe (446288), in this bag we have one of your girlfriends fingers. In 9 days she will run out of fingers. Please get in touch with us.". s/girlfriend/someone_else_you_care_about as required.
I hope I never have to stay hidden from someone who wants me at any cost.
From a purely scientific point of view it does make some sense. The trouble is that you would be putting people in charge of who gets to breed and who doesn't, and we've already demonstrated that people are not capable of running a bank properly so imagine what's going to happen if you put them in charge of something like this... Once someone in power decides that pointing out flaws in the government is not a good trait to have, it all goes downhill really fast - there doesn't need to be a 'real' gene for it either, once the system is corrupt people can make up whatever they want.
Also, have a look at some of the defects in some of the greatest people of our time. Einstein had a majorly lopsided brain etc. Obviously not necessarily genetic though.
I use it extensively but seem to have problems with Vista. The initial screen shows but updates don't show from that point on. I think UAC doesn't work correctly across the SC client either, which is rather important given what you are doing... any suggestions?
Talking of sci-fi, phone booths can't become obsolete!
Don't forget Superman! Where would he get changed?
I can see the value of a phone booth as being a quiet place to make a phone call, even if it's on your mobile phone. They'd still smell of urine though...
I stopped wearing a watch when my first child was born - too easy to scratch a baby with it. My first cell phone was broken by that same baby though:)
[X] You can get them dirt cheap (under $10) so if they break, get wet washing the dishes, fall in the toilet - no big deal. Try that with your cell phone. [X] One for day and one for evening wear - they are a fashion accessory.
Are those two points compatible? A $10 watch isn't going to be a fashion accessory (unless you are making the statement that you don't need to spend money to be cool:), and your 'evening wear' watch isn't going to cost $10.
[X] It's harder to forget your wristwatch on the roof of your car, at home, or at the office than a cellphone
One thing a watch might be good for is as a cell phone proximity detector device - if your cell phone and your watch get too far apart your watch (or phone) could beep a few times just to remind you that you might be forgetting the phone.
The ad campaign running in Australia at the moment tells us that you have 38 times the risk of serious injury if you are on a bike compared to a car.
Bikes aren't that much cheaper than a car with roughly the same carrying capacity (eg tiny two seater hatchback). The motorcycle tyres are incredibly expensive and wear out much faster. The gear you have to wear when you ride to stop losing all your skin when you fall off is expensive (and the fact that a lot of people don't bother is one of the contributors to the serious injury figures above).
The fun of riding a motorcycle is hard to put a value on though:)
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Possibly it had problems meeting emissions standards? That's just a guess though. Two stroke engines aren't typically as clean as four stroke engines, although I don't know what technical marvels they implemented to get 168mpg.
That said, if it's burning 10% of the fuel of an SUV it can't have been that bad...
Be a man and take responsibility for your actions.
That still won't get you the job though will it?
If you had two applicants for a job that were pretty much equal in all respects except that one had been interviewed by the feds for something untoward and one hadn't, which one would you hire? I'd certainly lean towards the one that never got caught for anything... even if he's just as devious, at least he's not dumb enough to get caught!
You are comparing turning the suns energy into electricity to turning the suns energy into hydrocarbons and then turning that into electricity, and you are discounting the other uses for the hydrocarbons.
Taking carbon out of the air and cracking water into hydrogen and oxygen takes a whole lot of energy and the plants do it better than they can in the lab, when the only energy input is the sun.
Who the Frack wants windows on their phone?
Microsoft does.
Not sure about the customers, but I don't think they matter.
Do I risk being labeled as an anti-GPL troll for saying that the people who aren't willing to offer one for any price are assholes?
You risk being labeled ignorant. A lot of GPL software has more than one contributor to the code base...
There is a pretty big difference between $500,000 and $200,000,000. So which is it Air Force?
If the company you are contracting to estimates that a project is going to take somewhere between 0.5 million and 200 million, guess which of those two numbers is going to be more correct?
most laptops just can't run three display
Any laptop with USB ports (eg any recent laptop) can run at least 9 non-builtin monitors - external vga + 8 x USB-VGA. USB to VGA adapters have been around for ages and the one i'm familiar with supports up to 8 such devices connected. Other brands or other models may support more. Last time I used one it even played youtube video's quite well - I was expecting it to render text just fine but to bog down doing much else but it surprised me.
Additionally, there are devices available to split a single VGA output into multiple, eg 2048x768 => 2 x 1024x768.
I was testing under Windows, but i'm sure it claimed to support Linux.
My guess is that this results in a situation where probably >10% of the population is currently guilty of a serious offence that they may well have no knowledge they have committed.
Well... you 10% had better start calling the authorities. Now.
I think it would be higher than 10% too. If you've ever done a google search for anything a little risque it's quite possible than some illegal images were in there, which means they are on your computer.
Also, what about all that spam you get? Some of it could contain illegal images. Even if you never opened it, and have long since deleted it, there still could be offending data stored in your computer somewhere.
I think everyone should call the authorities right now, just to be sure.
I made a call to HP (abbreviated to protect the company :) recently to have a failed disk replaced under warranty. I went to great lengths to explain that I was a consultant acting on behalf of the customer, gave HP all of my details and all of the customers details etc. I could hear constant typing in the background so something was being entered somewhere. About 20 minutes later I got a call from my office saying they had HP on the line asking who the onsite contact was, who the customer was, and where the part should be sent.
It's not just hospitals... I think I can generalise the conclusion of the article - if the solution (IT or otherwise) isn't designed/built right, and people don't know how to use it right, then it isn't going to work right and is going to make peoples lives harder not eaiser. Seems kind of obvious when you put it that way though.
The key aspect is how bright the light is
Just to emphasize this, even scattered reflections from a Class IV/4 laser can blind/burn you. Light is light, and bright light is bright light whether it is emitted or reflected.
But unless client and server agree on a private key in advance, by offline means, a Man in the Middle can still proxy the key negotiation and access the plaintext.
I can't help but think that that might be just a little illegal unless it was done by law enforcement with a warrant, as would any form of decrypting an encrypted transmission.
There are two types of people, those who classify people into one of two types of people, and those who don't.
Yup. It's pretty easy to disappear. Don't go out where you'll be seen. Give traces where you aren't.
You know, it's not very hard to send a trusted friend your credit card and cell phone, and tell him "Use the card every few days to pull out $40, and deposit the cash once a month at a different branch.. Call your girlfriend/house/friend from my cell every few days just to chat."
Depends on how badly they want you vs how badly you want to stay hidden... "JWSmythe (446288), in this bag we have one of your girlfriends fingers. In 9 days she will run out of fingers. Please get in touch with us.". s/girlfriend/someone_else_you_care_about as required.
I hope I never have to stay hidden from someone who wants me at any cost.
Where's Osama?
Hmmm... has the government thought of checking the logs of the 'Where's Osama?' facebook page? There might be some useful clues in there.
From a purely scientific point of view it does make some sense. The trouble is that you would be putting people in charge of who gets to breed and who doesn't, and we've already demonstrated that people are not capable of running a bank properly so imagine what's going to happen if you put them in charge of something like this... Once someone in power decides that pointing out flaws in the government is not a good trait to have, it all goes downhill really fast - there doesn't need to be a 'real' gene for it either, once the system is corrupt people can make up whatever they want.
Also, have a look at some of the defects in some of the greatest people of our time. Einstein had a majorly lopsided brain etc. Obviously not necessarily genetic though.
neither do you, obviously.
Google for 'Chewbacca Defense' and you'll see why it "does not make sense".
(yes, i'm grumpy that someone beat me to the "that does not make sense" post :)
suspend the pilot on a line between the wings.
What? Held under the dorsal guiding struts?
2012 has no relevance to anything.
It's almost a palindrome. That's gotta mean something.
It's also nearly 13 years after the year 2000, and we all know how unlucky the number 13 is.
inspected overseas
Date of scan - 24 Nov 2009
Results of scan - No radioactivity detected
Operator - Osama
impossible to NOT ship a weapon in a large cargo container.
Definitely. I'd be more worried by the ones that arrive under their own power :)
I use it extensively but seem to have problems with Vista. The initial screen shows but updates don't show from that point on. I think UAC doesn't work correctly across the SC client either, which is rather important given what you are doing... any suggestions?
pie
A pie analogy? What is this world coming to.
Talking of sci-fi, phone booths can't become obsolete!
Don't forget Superman! Where would he get changed?
I can see the value of a phone booth as being a quiet place to make a phone call, even if it's on your mobile phone. They'd still smell of urine though...
and will still be chugging along quite possibly when something else comes along to displace the cell phone.
It occurs to me that at some point in time the core function of the cell phone will be replaced by a device small enough to fit around your wrist...
I stopped wearing a watch when my first child was born - too easy to scratch a baby with it. My first cell phone was broken by that same baby though :)
[X] You can get them dirt cheap (under $10) so if they break, get wet washing the dishes, fall in the toilet - no big deal. Try that with your cell phone.
[X] One for day and one for evening wear - they are a fashion accessory.
Are those two points compatible? A $10 watch isn't going to be a fashion accessory (unless you are making the statement that you don't need to spend money to be cool :), and your 'evening wear' watch isn't going to cost $10.
[X] It's harder to forget your wristwatch on the roof of your car, at home, or at the office than a cellphone
One thing a watch might be good for is as a cell phone proximity detector device - if your cell phone and your watch get too far apart your watch (or phone) could beep a few times just to remind you that you might be forgetting the phone.
The ad campaign running in Australia at the moment tells us that you have 38 times the risk of serious injury if you are on a bike compared to a car.
Bikes aren't that much cheaper than a car with roughly the same carrying capacity (eg tiny two seater hatchback). The motorcycle tyres are incredibly expensive and wear out much faster. The gear you have to wear when you ride to stop losing all your skin when you fall off is expensive (and the fact that a lot of people don't bother is one of the contributors to the serious injury figures above).
The fun of riding a motorcycle is hard to put a value on though :)