Does a power supply necessarily use it's rated power output all the time, or is that just the rated maximum wattage output? For instance, if my hardware is only drawing a couple hundred w, but I install a 1kW supply, will it still use 1kW all the time? Because if it does not, I see no reason for people to not aim high when choosing a supply. It would give you a safety buffer in case power requirements spike for some reason, without stressing the power supply.
I've found some sites that claim to only support IE can be fooled by changing your UserAgent in Firefox. I've tried a few of them... and some work just fine (why do they require IE anyway?) and some come out pretty garbled (I'm guessing due to differences in the way they handle CSS and etc). And some just won't open at all.
I just love how they need to protect the phone companies from competition. Evil, commie competition. God forbid someone breaks their monopoly. Next up: electric cars are banned to protect the oil companies from competition. Satellite dishes are banned to protect the traditional cable providers from competition. In fact, all progress and invention should be banned to protect our current business models from any further competition.
I know that at my university the internet contract stipulaes that letting anyone else use my computer while it is connected to the internet is cause to have my connection severed (and I eat the semester's prepayment.)
That tells me that the issue is ambiguous enough, that university has to explicitely spell out who will be responsible for people using computer's that are not their own. Basically closing the "it wasn't me" hole.
It's not a set standard that the loser pays the other's expenses, however the judge can (and often do) order this if they deem the lawsuit to have been frivolous or unfair. The lady's ex-lawyer was possibly counting on this finding for her, and she may be spending all this money on that assumption. And, generally, legal expenses are breifly looked at by the court to make sure they're not grossly inflated.
haha.. I know, it reminds of a story some months ago, about how they showed that you can completely garble a words' spelling so long as there are a couple letters in the right place, and we can still read the sentence rather easily. Our brains are pretty good at decyphering things by context.
I will believe in any other explanation if you can show me the exact proof with an established timeline.
And I'll believe it was all "created" when you do the same. Hell, you don't even have to show me a timeline. Just show me a being capable of doing it. What's that? He's shy? Won't show himself? Well darn. I guess I'll have to stick to my fossil records then. At least they're not imaginary. SEMICOLON.
And you have obviously not done much(any?) studying of archaeology if you think there is no progressive pattern in the fossil record. One layer shows nothing. The next layer contains the smallest and simplest forms of life known. All the layers above get progressively more complex. There was no magic wand waved and suddenly we had fully formed animals. The most you could try to suppose would be that simple single celled organisms appeared from the magic wand. And even that sounds ludicrous to "real thinking people".
The bottom line is you do want a paycheck. No one works without being paid, even those of us who love our work. Even you. So yeah, I want my freaking paycheck. But that says absolutely nothing about my ability or work ethic. And I expect to be fairly compensated for the quality of my work, as I imagine everyone does.
I only bid on auctions that accept paypal myself. Because I'm too lazy and/or paranoid to go to a Western Union stop or send some random ebayer my credit card details or even a personal check or money order. It's bad enough Paypal has my credit card info, no one else needs to see it. And I have zero protection with western union or money orders. I have been scammed once on ebay when buying a cell phone. Paypal refunded my money in a week or so without issue. But I'm also not one to scam sellers by trying to retract my payments either.
Sure, that's what the ankle bracelets are for. Program the thing sound the alarm if he goes anywhere other than his home or his work. This way, our legal system isn't spending my tax money housing and feeding his ass, and he's forced to work to pay off what was stolen. Now, if he had used a gun and robbed the place, he's a menace and should be locked up. But most white collar criminals are generally just idiots that don't want to hurt people, just wanted to steal something. Don't lock them up and make us pay for them. Put their asses to work and make them pay it back.
It takes X programmers to make a program, and it is sold Y people. If you sell it to 2Y people, you can hire 2X programmers.
While that seems logical to us, to a company who's only worried about the bottom line, their logic would be "it only took X programmers to write the software in the first place, why pay for more to do the next version? We can pocket all the money our great sales are doing, and only keep the minimum number of programmers needed to do the job. In fact, we'll fire all our programmers and hire a bunch in India for 1/4 the cost."
If they're too lazy to disable the USB ports on machines they think may be security risks, then yes. MP3 players really are nothing more than glorified thumb drives.
That's what I'm thinking. They're so damn small these days, you can plug one in and no one even notices. They make wristwatch drives now too, don't they? The possibilities are endless. I don't think cameras would be my first worry if I as in charge of data security at my place, but they'd be on the list.
If it ever does go public, expect mass civil disobediance.
>No, all that I'll expect is fuckwits like you getting better acquainted >with public transport.
And with a car-mounted GPS jammer, I will enlist more people to my cause
>You'll be on the side of the road trying to lie your way out of another >ticket not three minutes after the GPS signal stops. Good luck with that.
I understand the anti-GPS sentiments. And I have no doubt that there will be hacks to disable any government installed system hours after it comes out. And I'll be one of them working on it, fuckwit or not.:) I do obey traffic laws. But I'm not going to be tracked around like a tagged animal by the government nor will I willingly pay extra taxes, on top of my gas taxes, registration taxes, property taxes, income taxes, sales taxes, etc. We already pay the government a premium just to own a car, even without driving it. btw, some localities require all vehicles be at least registered if not insured, whether they are driven or not, rendering your tarp idea techically illegal in those areas.
It's kind of like signing a temperance pledge because practically everybody else in my community has VD, and subsequently being told that if I want to watch a movie I have to have sex in the back row of it.
hahaha... and here I am with no mod points. That's probably the best analogy of WMP and the WMV format I've seen.
Yes, that's what NAT does. The ISP (or anyone else) never sees the MAC addresses behind the NAT device. Regardless, MAC's are easy to spoof anyway. Most routers and even NIC's allow you to change your MAC to anything you want.
I consider that merely another check and balance. If the legal system refuses to nullify a law that the general populace (i.e. the jury) feels is unconstitutional, or inisits on going after someone for the wrong reasons, they jury can simply aquit someone accused of breaking said law. I feel the power should be with the people, not the legal system itself.
Will the balance ever shift in the other direction? What, you mean protect us from the children? Amen brother, those kids are ruining my porn experience.
No children have their own ISP account (again no credit cards or jobs), so how would ISP's know which customers have kids? Hand out "kid-IP's" by request? But then the parent's couldn't get their porn.
By services, they mean that you aren't buying the physical software, you're buying the service that this software performs. Whether it be a one time fee, or a subscription. It's not a service contract to keep the software working.
Sorry, I'm an order of magnitude off in the above post. Decent microwave ovens are 1000-1500W, not mW. Same theory applies though, just much higher power levels. A 20dBi antenna would put out 3000W from a 30W source.
Well, you're converting elecrical energy into electromagnetic energy, then converting the EM energy into heat. A conventional electric heater is going directly to heat. I guess the real question is, does it take more electricity to produce the amount of EM radiaton needed to excite the water quickly enough (and in enough quantity) than it does to heat a metal element? I don't have any numbers to look at, but how much electricity does it take to put out say 3W of EM? That's roughly double what a standard microwave oven puts out. And that's measuring the strength of the signal, it's not a direct correlation to the amount of electricity needed to make that signal. It can't, because you can merely change the antenna type to increase the mW output without an increase in input power. Hell, an intentional radiator that puts out 100mW coupled to a 20dBi directional antenna puts out 10W of EM radiation. Anyone have any numbers on how much electricity it takes to output 2.5GHz radiation, on a per mW basis?
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Does a power supply necessarily use it's rated power output all the time, or is that just the rated maximum wattage output?
For instance, if my hardware is only drawing a couple hundred w, but I install a 1kW supply, will it still use 1kW all the time?
Because if it does not, I see no reason for people to not aim high when choosing a supply. It would give you a safety buffer in case power requirements spike for some reason, without stressing the power supply.
I've found some sites that claim to only support IE can be fooled by changing your UserAgent in Firefox. I've tried a few of them... and some work just fine (why do they require IE anyway?) and some come out pretty garbled (I'm guessing due to differences in the way they handle CSS and etc). And some just won't open at all.
I just love how they need to protect the phone companies from competition. Evil, commie competition. God forbid someone breaks their monopoly.
Next up: electric cars are banned to protect the oil companies from competition.
Satellite dishes are banned to protect the traditional cable providers from competition.
In fact, all progress and invention should be banned to protect our current business models from any further competition.
I know that at my university the internet contract stipulaes that letting anyone else use my computer while it is connected to the internet is cause to have my connection severed (and I eat the semester's prepayment.)
That tells me that the issue is ambiguous enough, that university has to explicitely spell out who will be responsible for people using computer's that are not their own. Basically closing the "it wasn't me" hole.
It's not a set standard that the loser pays the other's expenses, however the judge can (and often do) order this if they deem the lawsuit to have been frivolous or unfair. The lady's ex-lawyer was possibly counting on this finding for her, and she may be spending all this money on that assumption.
And, generally, legal expenses are breifly looked at by the court to make sure they're not grossly inflated.
Juniper does kill children. Their CEO's are all gay and have AIDS. They cheat on their taxes, and support terrorists.
Sue me, Juniper.
haha.. I know, it reminds of a story some months ago, about how they showed that you can completely garble a words' spelling so long as there are a couple letters in the right place, and we can still read the sentence rather easily. Our brains are pretty good at decyphering things by context.
I will believe in any other explanation if you can show me the exact proof with an established timeline.
And I'll believe it was all "created" when you do the same. Hell, you don't even have to show me a timeline. Just show me a being capable of doing it.
What's that? He's shy? Won't show himself? Well darn. I guess I'll have to stick to my fossil records then. At least they're not imaginary. SEMICOLON.
And you have obviously not done much(any?) studying of archaeology if you think there is no progressive pattern in the fossil record. One layer shows nothing. The next layer contains the smallest and simplest forms of life known. All the layers above get progressively more complex. There was no magic wand waved and suddenly we had fully formed animals. The most you could try to suppose would be that simple single celled organisms appeared from the magic wand. And even that sounds ludicrous to "real thinking people".
The bottom line is you do want a paycheck. No one works without being paid, even those of us who love our work. Even you.
So yeah, I want my freaking paycheck. But that says absolutely nothing about my ability or work ethic. And I expect to be fairly compensated for the quality of my work, as I imagine everyone does.
I only bid on auctions that accept paypal myself. Because I'm too lazy and/or paranoid to go to a Western Union stop or send some random ebayer my credit card details or even a personal check or money order. It's bad enough Paypal has my credit card info, no one else needs to see it. And I have zero protection with western union or money orders.
I have been scammed once on ebay when buying a cell phone. Paypal refunded my money in a week or so without issue. But I'm also not one to scam sellers by trying to retract my payments either.
How is that a double standard? They didn't patch it to break the DRM, they patched it because it broke their OS.
Sure, that's what the ankle bracelets are for. Program the thing sound the alarm if he goes anywhere other than his home or his work.
This way, our legal system isn't spending my tax money housing and feeding his ass, and he's forced to work to pay off what was stolen.
Now, if he had used a gun and robbed the place, he's a menace and should be locked up.
But most white collar criminals are generally just idiots that don't want to hurt people, just wanted to steal something. Don't lock them up and make us pay for them. Put their asses to work and make them pay it back.
Except for the fact that even if the software cost 1/4 less to create, it would not cost less for the consumer. Not many corporations are that nice.
It takes X programmers to make a program, and it is sold Y people. If you sell it to 2Y people, you can hire 2X programmers.
While that seems logical to us, to a company who's only worried about the bottom line, their logic would be "it only took X programmers to write the software in the first place, why pay for more to do the next version? We can pocket all the money our great sales are doing, and only keep the minimum number of programmers needed to do the job. In fact, we'll fire all our programmers and hire a bunch in India for 1/4 the cost."
If they're too lazy to disable the USB ports on machines they think may be security risks, then yes. MP3 players really are nothing more than glorified thumb drives.
That's what I'm thinking. They're so damn small these days, you can plug one in and no one even notices. They make wristwatch drives now too, don't they? The possibilities are endless. I don't think cameras would be my first worry if I as in charge of data security at my place, but they'd be on the list.
If it ever does go public, expect mass civil disobediance.
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>No, all that I'll expect is fuckwits like you getting better acquainted
>with public transport.
And with a car-mounted GPS jammer, I will enlist more people to my cause
>You'll be on the side of the road trying to lie your way out of another
>ticket not three minutes after the GPS signal stops. Good luck with that.
I understand the anti-GPS sentiments. And I have no doubt that there will be hacks to disable any government installed system hours after it comes out. And I'll be one of them working on it, fuckwit or not.
I do obey traffic laws. But I'm not going to be tracked around like a tagged animal by the government nor will I willingly pay extra taxes, on top of my gas taxes, registration taxes, property taxes, income taxes, sales taxes, etc. We already pay the government a premium just to own a car, even without driving it.
btw, some localities require all vehicles be at least registered if not insured, whether they are driven or not, rendering your tarp idea techically illegal in those areas.
It's kind of like signing a temperance pledge because practically everybody else in my community has VD, and subsequently being told that if I want to watch a movie I have to have sex in the back row of it.
hahaha... and here I am with no mod points.
That's probably the best analogy of WMP and the WMV format I've seen.
Yes, that's what NAT does. The ISP (or anyone else) never sees the MAC addresses behind the NAT device.
Regardless, MAC's are easy to spoof anyway. Most routers and even NIC's allow you to change your MAC to anything you want.
I consider that merely another check and balance. If the legal system refuses to nullify a law that the general populace (i.e. the jury) feels is unconstitutional, or inisits on going after someone for the wrong reasons, they jury can simply aquit someone accused of breaking said law.
I feel the power should be with the people, not the legal system itself.
Will the balance ever shift in the other direction?
What, you mean protect us from the children? Amen brother, those kids are ruining my porn experience.
No children have their own ISP account (again no credit cards or jobs), so how would ISP's know which customers have kids? Hand out "kid-IP's" by request? But then the parent's couldn't get their porn.
By services, they mean that you aren't buying the physical software, you're buying the service that this software performs. Whether it be a one time fee, or a subscription. It's not a service contract to keep the software working.
Sorry, I'm an order of magnitude off in the above post. Decent microwave ovens are 1000-1500W, not mW.
Same theory applies though, just much higher power levels.
A 20dBi antenna would put out 3000W from a 30W source.
Well, you're converting elecrical energy into electromagnetic energy, then converting the EM energy into heat. A conventional electric heater is going directly to heat.
I guess the real question is, does it take more electricity to produce the amount of EM radiaton needed to excite the water quickly enough (and in enough quantity) than it does to heat a metal element?
I don't have any numbers to look at, but how much electricity does it take to put out say 3W of EM? That's roughly double what a standard microwave oven puts out. And that's measuring the strength of the signal, it's not a direct correlation to the amount of electricity needed to make that signal. It can't, because you can merely change the antenna type to increase the mW output without an increase in input power.
Hell, an intentional radiator that puts out 100mW coupled to a 20dBi directional antenna puts out 10W of EM radiation.
Anyone have any numbers on how much electricity it takes to output 2.5GHz radiation, on a per mW basis?