"Fakes!
"Counterfeit hardware is making its way to online merchants and to stores near you. And poor performance isn't the only risk: Bogus parts can be hazardous to your health."
I wouldn't jump the gun immediately and blame it all on ignorance. Humans tend to remember the negative and the catastrophic; clean skies leave less of an imprint than nuclear meltdowns and atomic bombs. You say nuclear these days and most common people quickly think explosions. Ignorance? Somewhat. We just remember disaster and misfortune.
Most people here always talk about coal, but it's like preaching to the choir: we know. But has coal left anything for the masses to be truly afraid of? It's more of a silent source of radiation. All of it is dumped into the environment without making a commotion. With nuclear waste, there's the physical idea of having to put it somewhere. That is what bothers people. Say that coal produces more radioactive waste than nuclear power to the average person and you'll probably get a strange stare. Aside from mining disasters, nothing has triggered the negative imprinting in people as nuclear disasters. For that, it'll always be infinitely more difficult for people to accept nuclear power regardless of how much safer it is today.
Talk about a hefty price tag. I think I'll stick with my 19" LCD. Until it becomes cheaper, there doesn't seem to be too much of a point in buying this monitor. Purchasing a combination of two monitors is more economical and, depending on your choices, would leave you with some cash for a better video card.
By all means, however, if you have the money and the requirements, go ahead and get this if user reviews are good. It looks sheerly massive. One thing for sure, though, is that it certainly isn't a necessity.
As an aside, any word on dead-pixels? My friend that has a fairly large Dell LCD hasn't had any problems in that department, but it never hurts to ask around.
It's good to know that research was carried out and the findings were against the first team's concerning cannibalism. If anything, it'll spark a bit of competitive research to further analyze the results and perhaps bring us closer to what the genes and their variations really represent. According to the article, there could be bias present because the first team didn't analyze all 22 variations, which is fairly important in the context of evolution.
Nevertheless, perhaps we'll see an article in the future to see the conclusion after more comparisons between the two papers and further research. It's an interesting topic, to say the least.
This shouldn't be happening. Recently, all of my parents' information was "lost" as well. Not by Marriott, but by my the mortgage company. Apparently, it was with the courier and then *gone*. Yeah. The best they could do was offer some tips to avoid _future_ identity theft.
While I'm not sure how they are able to come up with such numbers, it's fairly obvious that internet-related crime has increased. After all, with each year more people sign on, more options are available, new technology, and new ways to trick others pop up.
I've seen first hand an increase in phishing attempts this year because I've had to fix - mostly clean - more relatives' computers. More spyware too. I'd say that most of us would agree. It's a shame, really. But I'll also be the first to admit that I've earned some cash on the side because of it. It's not something I'm proud of, but it was offered. It shouldn't have to come to that. Ah well. We'll manage. More threats arise with each year. I think that has something to do with the passage of time though, no?
Tech Trends or some guy's rant? I'd say the latter. The article came off as a person's complaints, a rant more than any actual trends in technology. He just stated things he disliked, and gave some [very little] reasons why. The entire time I was reading it, I just kept thinking: "This guy is just upset because things don't happen instantly. What an impatient..." And that's the jist of it. 64-bit Windows? It'd take a lot to convert everyone and everything to 64-bit overnight. The majority is 32-bit, and will most likely remain 32-bit for a while. It takes time to adapt; especially when it comes to developing for a minority. In the future, what he hopes for will probably come true, but it certainly won't happen tomorrow.
Gmail is fine. You get an invite (there are plenty), set up your account, and bam: sufficient, appealing interface that's quick and easy to use. Nothing complicated, nothing fancy: it just works. Some aspects can be improved, and that's the entire point of beta. Granted, I too think it's odd that more and more products just say "beta" as some sort of defense against bugs. Nothing's perfect, but things will improve. I use it frequently, but I also use Thunderbird along with my server's e-mail. In the end, I like gmail for the quick and easy things, a hurried message or two.
All in all, this article is baseless. I can throw my opinions out with little research too. I wouldn't expect anyone to take me seriously, either. Maybe an agreement or two, but c'mon. This article is fairly pointless.
If legitimate companies screw things up entirely, I'm fairly certain that worse must go on. What am I talking about? Well, recently my family received a letter in the mail that our mortgage company lost all of our private, personal, and financial information. It was there, and then it disappeared. They no longer have it; someone else does, and so they're forced to send one of those generic, "here are some steps to avoid identity theft because we screwed up. Good luck!" letters. Needless to say, there's something very wrong with this picture.
I strayed slightly off the original topic, but it's still relevant. Information is worth a lot; to companies, to governments, the local stalker. There isn't a line because at the point, I'd say it's damn necessary to take caution with anything these days. You never know what's going to turn around to bite you in the ass.
This guy is just talking out of his ass. The only way to describe Star Wars Galaxies is perhaps through an overnight liquid culture of e.coli. It started off buggy and lacking content, then shot up exponentially over the next few months. These were times when I had the greatest amount of fun and I eventually reached that "alpha-class" of Jedi. That was fun too. But definitely not the highest point. It was much more fun to group with a bunch of buddies, go out into the middle of nowhere and discover something new. "Hey look, a cave!" and there'd be a whole area full of droids in the middle of what was a desert.
After the Jump To Lightspeed expansion, all subsequent expansions started looking more and more like money-making schemes that provided little to no content. ToOW was just to have a large renewal of subscriptions and to lock in players for the NGE. He is not sorry. He knows only the most furious customers will actually seek and attain a refund; others will be locked in from uncertainty.
I'm sorry but there just isn't an excuse for changing the game overnight aside from making it a dumbed down version to port over to consoles. After the "combat upgrade" SWG just started to follow a cookie-cutter path until the eventual complete and utter downfall: NGE. They took all the unique aspects out of the game and made it SUCK because they have no idea what they're doing and most of all they fail to listen to their unhappy customers (these changes negatively affected gameplay).
I will never recommend a game by SOE. A Christmas or two ago I would have said it was the best MMORPG I've played. Now I'm looking for a new home, possibly DnL. Good thing the NGE came, though. Now I can finish these college applications.
Is akin to a situation where someone tells you to lift a supposedly cold glass, but it's actually boiling. That's what initially happened with nuclear fission. Now that same person is asking us to pick it up again, but can we be sure it's inherently safe to do so and we won't receive 3rd degree burns? I'm not saying this is my point of view, but what I usually encounter when talking to others.
A bad reputation is very difficult to eliminate. Whereas a good reputation is ruined by one bad action, the same cannot be said for the converse. Nuclear power has clear advantages as well as disadvantages; technology has improved. But if we can't deal with mercury, toxic chemicals, and other pollutants, what are we going to do with nuclear waste? If we have a plan and are ready, then go ahead, but we should still look for alternatives and improvements.
That's the first thing I thought after reading the article summary. It was definitely worth a good laugh. Isn't there a bit truth to it, after all? : )
I hate to break it to you, but that's not saying much. A lot of students can't seem to read any clock aside from digital. It's quite pathetic. Someone asked me for the time and I told him there was a clock on the wall, and he must have stared at it for two minutes before I added that there's also a digital clock in the room.
Yes, that's true. Just watch Super Size Me or go out in public and you'll pretty much see people not caring about the food they eat. Hell, all of the recent stores built here (Targets, Walmarts) have either a McDonald's or Taco Bell, sometimes a misc. pizza place right inside the store.
But there are people that do care and want to know where their food has been. While I wouldn't necessarily go that far, I'd definitely like to know more about the chemicals involved and any other artificial additives. There are so many conflicting reports from both ends of the spectrum that it's damn near impossible to find anything truthful.
The automobile industry is much the same. My father once worked at an autoparts shop and whenever someone clueless came in looking for a part, the manager would come out, pretend to look at a list, then pretty much charge $20-$30 for a part that cost $2, and so on.
My dad said there was nothing he could really do, since the guy was his boss, except inform customers to pretend to know what they're doing so that they don't get taken advantage of. Come to think of it, this also happens at places like Best Buy when it comes to computers.
Admittedly, the same thing happened to me. I had to read the brief description because I couldn't figure out what hydrochloric acid had to do with anything.
Am I the only one bothered by this? Although the internet is very useful for finding information quickly, I wouldn't go to the scale of turning a library into a social setting by removing books and making it internet-oriented; books are essential, and I find it much more comfortable to read a book in a chair rather than onscreen at my computer on a website configured in an awkward way that makes it difficult to read.
Constantly printing material is rather annoying, in my opinion, and I couldn't stand it at my High School. We were doing something similar - a Virtual Library it was called - and there were only two rows of books. Not many people used the library. As internet-oriented as I am, I still went to the Public Library instead of that useless Virtual Library.
Who knows, though. Only time will tell, but I'm getting the feeling it isn't a good thing.
Was there a specific point to that article? It seems she tried to avoid any nitty-gritty details after her attempt at building a point that Windows isn't threatened by Linux, and vice versa. After that opening I expected something with more depth.
Instead, she threw in mindless details of the very obvious and took on a condescending tone toward businesses in general; of course, she did toss in random facts and figures that stuck with the general theme. To be honest, it looks more like a rant with ramblings than a neutral article with a point in mind.
Having.xxx as a requirement of the porn industry, as far as the internet is concerned, probably wouldn't fare very well in practicality. In most cases, a lot of ideas for content control / segregating the internet look well, or have positives to balances the cons, on paper or in a rough sketch.
As for the article, however, it notes public opposition to the.xxx suffix even being available based on something along the lines of "for the children". Why? Control and monitor what your children do on your own. As for society? If society wants to visit a.xxx site, or members of society, then I wouldn't exactly call it a plague rather than an opportunity for them. Why would someone else's habits that don't directly affect others be a good reason for the Bush Administration to get involved?
Personally, I don't buy it. That's fairly unreasonable in a logical sense. I think it'd make an acceptable suffix that's a bit more to the point than using.com or.org for porn. While I don't think it'd do anything to hurt or hinder the industry, it'd just be another option available for those interested in such sites.
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"Fakes!
"Counterfeit hardware is making its way to online merchants and to stores near you. And poor performance isn't the only risk: Bogus parts can be hazardous to your health."
Most people here always talk about coal, but it's like preaching to the choir: we know. But has coal left anything for the masses to be truly afraid of? It's more of a silent source of radiation. All of it is dumped into the environment without making a commotion. With nuclear waste, there's the physical idea of having to put it somewhere. That is what bothers people. Say that coal produces more radioactive waste than nuclear power to the average person and you'll probably get a strange stare. Aside from mining disasters, nothing has triggered the negative imprinting in people as nuclear disasters. For that, it'll always be infinitely more difficult for people to accept nuclear power regardless of how much safer it is today.
By all means, however, if you have the money and the requirements, go ahead and get this if user reviews are good. It looks sheerly massive. One thing for sure, though, is that it certainly isn't a necessity.
As an aside, any word on dead-pixels? My friend that has a fairly large Dell LCD hasn't had any problems in that department, but it never hurts to ask around.
Nevertheless, perhaps we'll see an article in the future to see the conclusion after more comparisons between the two papers and further research. It's an interesting topic, to say the least.
Hey, thanks! :D I appreciate the info.
This shouldn't be happening. Recently, all of my parents' information was "lost" as well. Not by Marriott, but by my the mortgage company. Apparently, it was with the courier and then *gone*. Yeah. The best they could do was offer some tips to avoid _future_ identity theft.
I've seen first hand an increase in phishing attempts this year because I've had to fix - mostly clean - more relatives' computers. More spyware too. I'd say that most of us would agree. It's a shame, really. But I'll also be the first to admit that I've earned some cash on the side because of it. It's not something I'm proud of, but it was offered. It shouldn't have to come to that. Ah well. We'll manage. More threats arise with each year. I think that has something to do with the passage of time though, no?
Gmail is fine. You get an invite (there are plenty), set up your account, and bam: sufficient, appealing interface that's quick and easy to use. Nothing complicated, nothing fancy: it just works. Some aspects can be improved, and that's the entire point of beta. Granted, I too think it's odd that more and more products just say "beta" as some sort of defense against bugs. Nothing's perfect, but things will improve. I use it frequently, but I also use Thunderbird along with my server's e-mail. In the end, I like gmail for the quick and easy things, a hurried message or two.
All in all, this article is baseless. I can throw my opinions out with little research too. I wouldn't expect anyone to take me seriously, either. Maybe an agreement or two, but c'mon. This article is fairly pointless.
I strayed slightly off the original topic, but it's still relevant. Information is worth a lot; to companies, to governments, the local stalker. There isn't a line because at the point, I'd say it's damn necessary to take caution with anything these days. You never know what's going to turn around to bite you in the ass.
This guy is just talking out of his ass. The only way to describe Star Wars Galaxies is perhaps through an overnight liquid culture of e.coli. It started off buggy and lacking content, then shot up exponentially over the next few months. These were times when I had the greatest amount of fun and I eventually reached that "alpha-class" of Jedi. That was fun too. But definitely not the highest point. It was much more fun to group with a bunch of buddies, go out into the middle of nowhere and discover something new. "Hey look, a cave!" and there'd be a whole area full of droids in the middle of what was a desert.
After the Jump To Lightspeed expansion, all subsequent expansions started looking more and more like money-making schemes that provided little to no content. ToOW was just to have a large renewal of subscriptions and to lock in players for the NGE. He is not sorry. He knows only the most furious customers will actually seek and attain a refund; others will be locked in from uncertainty.
I'm sorry but there just isn't an excuse for changing the game overnight aside from making it a dumbed down version to port over to consoles. After the "combat upgrade" SWG just started to follow a cookie-cutter path until the eventual complete and utter downfall: NGE. They took all the unique aspects out of the game and made it SUCK because they have no idea what they're doing and most of all they fail to listen to their unhappy customers (these changes negatively affected gameplay).
I will never recommend a game by SOE. A Christmas or two ago I would have said it was the best MMORPG I've played. Now I'm looking for a new home, possibly DnL. Good thing the NGE came, though. Now I can finish these college applications.A bad reputation is very difficult to eliminate. Whereas a good reputation is ruined by one bad action, the same cannot be said for the converse. Nuclear power has clear advantages as well as disadvantages; technology has improved. But if we can't deal with mercury, toxic chemicals, and other pollutants, what are we going to do with nuclear waste? If we have a plan and are ready, then go ahead, but we should still look for alternatives and improvements.
That's the first thing I thought after reading the article summary. It was definitely worth a good laugh. Isn't there a bit truth to it, after all? : )
I hate to break it to you, but that's not saying much. A lot of students can't seem to read any clock aside from digital. It's quite pathetic. Someone asked me for the time and I told him there was a clock on the wall, and he must have stared at it for two minutes before I added that there's also a digital clock in the room.
But there are people that do care and want to know where their food has been. While I wouldn't necessarily go that far, I'd definitely like to know more about the chemicals involved and any other artificial additives. There are so many conflicting reports from both ends of the spectrum that it's damn near impossible to find anything truthful.
My dad said there was nothing he could really do, since the guy was his boss, except inform customers to pretend to know what they're doing so that they don't get taken advantage of. Come to think of it, this also happens at places like Best Buy when it comes to computers.
Admittedly, the same thing happened to me. I had to read the brief description because I couldn't figure out what hydrochloric acid had to do with anything.
Indeed. At least, that's how things are around here (especially with me).
Am I the only one bothered by this? Although the internet is very useful for finding information quickly, I wouldn't go to the scale of turning a library into a social setting by removing books and making it internet-oriented; books are essential, and I find it much more comfortable to read a book in a chair rather than onscreen at my computer on a website configured in an awkward way that makes it difficult to read.
Constantly printing material is rather annoying, in my opinion, and I couldn't stand it at my High School. We were doing something similar - a Virtual Library it was called - and there were only two rows of books. Not many people used the library. As internet-oriented as I am, I still went to the Public Library instead of that useless Virtual Library.
Who knows, though. Only time will tell, but I'm getting the feeling it isn't a good thing.
Was there a specific point to that article? It seems she tried to avoid any nitty-gritty details after her attempt at building a point that Windows isn't threatened by Linux, and vice versa. After that opening I expected something with more depth.
Instead, she threw in mindless details of the very obvious and took on a condescending tone toward businesses in general; of course, she did toss in random facts and figures that stuck with the general theme. To be honest, it looks more like a rant with ramblings than a neutral article with a point in mind.
Having .xxx as a requirement of the porn industry, as far as the internet is concerned, probably wouldn't fare very well in practicality. In most cases, a lot of ideas for content control / segregating the internet look well, or have positives to balances the cons, on paper or in a rough sketch.
As for the article, however, it notes public opposition to the .xxx suffix even being available based on something along the lines of "for the children". Why? Control and monitor what your children do on your own. As for society? If society wants to visit a .xxx site, or members of society, then I wouldn't exactly call it a plague rather than an opportunity for them. Why would someone else's habits that don't directly affect others be a good reason for the Bush Administration to get involved?
Personally, I don't buy it. That's fairly unreasonable in a logical sense. I think it'd make an acceptable suffix that's a bit more to the point than using .com or .org for porn. While I don't think it'd do anything to hurt or hinder the industry, it'd just be another option available for those interested in such sites.