But we're using it at a faster pace than it can be renewed.
No, in fact forestation rates have been on the rise in North America for over 100 years. Wood use is a sustainable industry and I'm surprised the environmental movement has not been on board.
a simple chrome coating can add a few seconds of protection for a shell, enough to prevent it from being destroyed before it reaches its target.
Any chrome or metal coating added to a missile or shell that is designed to increase reflectivity, will (very likely) increase the radar reflectivity of the object. That may have the unintended consequence of making the object more susceptible to standard intercept missiles which use radar guidance. It will be difficult to defend against both defensive possibilities, giving flexibility on the tactical side in which method (laser, radar guidance) is most effective.
I don't drive 150 most days, but I DO drive 150+ miles SOME days.
Isn't that the whole point of the subject Chevrolet Volt car? Electric motor to carry you up to ~60 kilometers for commuting purposes, and an ICE for anything longer in a single day.
As far as I know, it's still a criminal offence in the UK to sell food by the pound or soft drinks in a pub by the pint.
Wow. In Canada, everyone orders beer by the pint. I think it has to do with the British heritage (a pint of your finest ale, barkeep!) Funny that we'd be following a heritage that has been outlawed:)
Unfortunately L/100km is used mostly worldwide. km/L just makes more sense. I buy 10L of gas, I can drive 150km is just intuitive - 15 km/l.. But typically that would be represented as 6.6L/100km instead.
I am not Canadian, and my first impression is that you guys already pay a CD tax to pay for copying discs, making file sharing legal, how does the new bill affect that? If it prevents you (legally) from making those copies, should the media companies lose that CD tax?
Does this make our currently legal downloading of music illegal? Yes. $500 per download infringement, $20,000 per uploading infringement.
Should the media companies lose the CD tax? Yes, they should, but probably will not. The legal status of downloading music came after the tax was introduced (a consequence of.. in other words).
That seems like it would lead to long-drawn out games where one side, and then the other, manage to grab temporary advantage, only to be pushed back to a state of near-equilibrium.
Multiplayer WiC is amazing. The games are not long and drawn out. In fact, it is the opposite. Combat starts in as little as 15 seconds after the game begins, and the maximum round time on an official server is 20 minutes. As the game progresses, Tactical Aid points are awarded for kills and achieving objectives. These result in increasingly significant strategic attacks available, up to and including carpet bombing and nuclear weapons, which can end a round in minutes if used properly.
Not to slag Company of Heroes, but I played it for many hours, and it has absolutely nothing on World in Conflict. WiC multiplayer games are smooth and enjoyable, fast paced and full of tactical and strategic aspects. Combat starts almost immediately, and there is absolutely zero base building. As a veteran of many, many RTS games over 15+ years, WiC is a breath of fresh air.
That may have worked 5 years ago, but you're going to likely find that an internet connection is on the minimum requirements list on the packaging itself. Ubisoft, for example, has a similar phone-home feature on most of its games. It's very clearly listed on all of their game boxes.:(
there shouldn't be any kind of detectable emissions from a fiber optic cable, especially not EMF, since there shouldn't be any moving electric current, right?
Correct, but the switches at either end where the light signals are converted back into electrical signals are a very real souce of emissions.
Wake me up again when they report NUMBERS OF TICKETS SOLD as the metric vs. the amount of money collected.
This information is available although you may have to dig to find it. Movie attendance at the theatre is declining and has been for years. And that is only half the story. With overall population numbers increasing, and absolute numbers of moviegoers decreasing, the percentage of people as a total of the population going to the movies is even lower. Market share is decreasing; people are spending their disposable entertainment budget on other products.
The best use for "I'm feeling lucky" is when you already know the first result will be the most accurate. For example, searching Wikipedia for a topic. Open google, type "wikipedia slashdot", press tab twice and hit enter and you are instantly at the correct page.
Don't want something known widely? Don't post it on a public web site.
There are a lot of comments similar to this, and also ones such as "I don't join Facebook because I don't want to be involved".
However, if you have friends who are on Facebook, then welcome to the party, you are now involved. I have signed onto Facebook in order to keep an eye on what other people are posting about me. Your friends could have dozens of compromising pictures of you from your last drunken rampage, embarassing moment, or something more innocuous like vacations etc (oh, so you've been to Morocco, Egypt and Iran in the last year.. interesting), or just general reporting of your whereabouts and activities.
Just because you're not on Facebook, doesn't mean your face isn't plastered all over it. You had best get online and see what is actually there, if you want to pressure your friends to remove content that you do not deem acceptable.
Having said that, I hope it scares the crap out of Comcast (and any other ISP dumb enough to try this).
I hope it scares the crap out of every ISP that promotes high speed internet connections for large file transfers, while manipulating traffic behind the scenes.
If I remember correctly, Comcast says that something like 1% of the user base causes 15% of the bandwidth, etc. Therefore, they throttle the thing that takes up the most bandwidth (torrents), in the name of helping out all the other users.
Correction... they throttle in order to get the 15% back and resell it to more users, without having to upgrade existing infrastructure.
I'm not certain whether or not Comcast is "up to date", but most ISPs are now capable of regulating encrypted P2P (including Bittorrent) traffic. I have personally tested it on my ISP and found it t be the case across a variety of applications, much to my dismay:-(
Encryption won't solve the problem. For example, Rogers Communications in Canada throttles all encrypted traffic. Also, traffic pattern analysis can determine if an application is similar to bittorrent (ie, opening up many connections in a short period of time) and can apply throttling. Rogers uses both techniques, but they purchase them from another commerical company that could be providing it to any number of ISPs.
Yes, I use Rogers (not for long though). Simple network analysis of unencrypted and encrypted P2P and non-P2P clearly shows traffic being limited.
A conversation with a passenger is not as bad because the passenger can also notice when something Bad(tm) is going to happen, and start screaming or otherwise take action to ensure the driver notices the upcoming "situation".
Hotmail was cool, then M$ bought it and spent a fortune converting it to M$ software, loading it with adds and making it suck.
Thats not the only reason. If you don't log in for 30 days (and logging into MSN Messenger doesn't count), then they delete all of your emails. As opposed to the philosophy of Google and Yahoo, which is "keep your emails forever".
Microsoft prefers "you don't need old emails after 30 days". It's especially a pain for anyone who has a job that takes them away from home for more than 30 days. Oh say, like the military? Can't exactly check your Hotmail account from a hole in the deserts of Iraq and Afghanistan, eh Mr. Gates?
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But we're using it at a faster pace than it can be renewed.
No, in fact forestation rates have been on the rise in North America for over 100 years. Wood use is a sustainable industry and I'm surprised the environmental movement has not been on board.
a simple chrome coating can add a few seconds of protection for a shell, enough to prevent it from being destroyed before it reaches its target.
Any chrome or metal coating added to a missile or shell that is designed to increase reflectivity, will (very likely) increase the radar reflectivity of the object. That may have the unintended consequence of making the object more susceptible to standard intercept missiles which use radar guidance. It will be difficult to defend against both defensive possibilities, giving flexibility on the tactical side in which method (laser, radar guidance) is most effective.
I don't drive 150 most days, but I DO drive 150+ miles SOME days.
Isn't that the whole point of the subject Chevrolet Volt car? Electric motor to carry you up to ~60 kilometers for commuting purposes, and an ICE for anything longer in a single day.
As far as I know, it's still a criminal offence in the UK to sell food by the pound or soft drinks in a pub by the pint.
Wow. In Canada, everyone orders beer by the pint. I think it has to do with the British heritage (a pint of your finest ale, barkeep!) Funny that we'd be following a heritage that has been outlawed :)
Unfortunately L/100km is used mostly worldwide. km/L just makes more sense. I buy 10L of gas, I can drive 150km is just intuitive - 15 km/l.. But typically that would be represented as 6.6L/100km instead.
I am not Canadian, and my first impression is that you guys already pay a CD tax to pay for copying discs, making file sharing legal, how does the new bill affect that? If it prevents you (legally) from making those copies, should the media companies lose that CD tax?
Does this make our currently legal downloading of music illegal? Yes. $500 per download infringement, $20,000 per uploading infringement.
Should the media companies lose the CD tax? Yes, they should, but probably will not. The legal status of downloading music came after the tax was introduced (a consequence of.. in other words).
That seems like it would lead to long-drawn out games where one side, and then the other, manage to grab temporary advantage, only to be pushed back to a state of near-equilibrium.
Multiplayer WiC is amazing. The games are not long and drawn out. In fact, it is the opposite. Combat starts in as little as 15 seconds after the game begins, and the maximum round time on an official server is 20 minutes. As the game progresses, Tactical Aid points are awarded for kills and achieving objectives. These result in increasingly significant strategic attacks available, up to and including carpet bombing and nuclear weapons, which can end a round in minutes if used properly.
Not to slag Company of Heroes, but I played it for many hours, and it has absolutely nothing on World in Conflict. WiC multiplayer games are smooth and enjoyable, fast paced and full of tactical and strategic aspects. Combat starts almost immediately, and there is absolutely zero base building. As a veteran of many, many RTS games over 15+ years, WiC is a breath of fresh air.
That may have worked 5 years ago, but you're going to likely find that an internet connection is on the minimum requirements list on the packaging itself. Ubisoft, for example, has a similar phone-home feature on most of its games. It's very clearly listed on all of their game boxes. :(
there shouldn't be any kind of detectable emissions from a fiber optic cable, especially not EMF, since there shouldn't be any moving electric current, right?
Correct, but the switches at either end where the light signals are converted back into electrical signals are a very real souce of emissions.
Wake me up again when they report NUMBERS OF TICKETS SOLD as the metric vs. the amount of money collected.
This information is available although you may have to dig to find it. Movie attendance at the theatre is declining and has been for years. And that is only half the story. With overall population numbers increasing, and absolute numbers of moviegoers decreasing, the percentage of people as a total of the population going to the movies is even lower. Market share is decreasing; people are spending their disposable entertainment budget on other products.
Is the good part about Live Hotmail the deletion all of your emails if you don't log in for 30 days?
The "sequel" to The Hobbit will be a film that takes place in the time between The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
The best use for "I'm feeling lucky" is when you already know the first result will be the most accurate. For example, searching Wikipedia for a topic. Open google, type "wikipedia slashdot", press tab twice and hit enter and you are instantly at the correct page.
Don't want something known widely? Don't post it on a public web site.
There are a lot of comments similar to this, and also ones such as "I don't join Facebook because I don't want to be involved".
However, if you have friends who are on Facebook, then welcome to the party, you are now involved. I have signed onto Facebook in order to keep an eye on what other people are posting about me. Your friends could have dozens of compromising pictures of you from your last drunken rampage, embarassing moment, or something more innocuous like vacations etc (oh, so you've been to Morocco, Egypt and Iran in the last year.. interesting), or just general reporting of your whereabouts and activities.
Just because you're not on Facebook, doesn't mean your face isn't plastered all over it. You had best get online and see what is actually there, if you want to pressure your friends to remove content that you do not deem acceptable.
The dollar, after hitting a high of 92.8 cents US, closed Friday at 92.64 cents US, its highest closing level since 1977."
:-P
Umm, the Canadian dollar is now worth more than the American. $1.034 with a quick google search here. Guess monopoly money isn't so bad after all
Having said that, I hope it scares the crap out of Comcast (and any other ISP dumb enough to try this).
I hope it scares the crap out of every ISP that promotes high speed internet connections for large file transfers, while manipulating traffic behind the scenes.
For example, Rogers in Canada which states "Enjoy the next generation of Internet service great for sharing large files and much more", while throttling the P2P services (or any encrypted connection) that are required for the very same as reported here.
If I remember correctly, Comcast says that something like 1% of the user base causes 15% of the bandwidth, etc. Therefore, they throttle the thing that takes up the most bandwidth (torrents), in the name of helping out all the other users.
Correction... they throttle in order to get the 15% back and resell it to more users, without having to upgrade existing infrastructure.
I'm not certain whether or not Comcast is "up to date", but most ISPs are now capable of regulating encrypted P2P (including Bittorrent) traffic. I have personally tested it on my ISP and found it t be the case across a variety of applications, much to my dismay :-(
Encryption won't solve the problem. For example, Rogers Communications in Canada throttles all encrypted traffic. Also, traffic pattern analysis can determine if an application is similar to bittorrent (ie, opening up many connections in a short period of time) and can apply throttling. Rogers uses both techniques, but they purchase them from another commerical company that could be providing it to any number of ISPs.
Yes, I use Rogers (not for long though). Simple network analysis of unencrypted and encrypted P2P and non-P2P clearly shows traffic being limited.
Will it blend?
A conversation with a passenger is not as bad because the passenger can also notice when something Bad(tm) is going to happen, and start screaming or otherwise take action to ensure the driver notices the upcoming "situation".
I'm sure many here remember Queen Hatshepsut from Civilization IV!
I guess 20 million users don't mind having their accounts to be deleted after 30 days of inactivity either. Funny how that doesn't happen with Gmail.
Hotmail was cool, then M$ bought it and spent a fortune converting it to M$ software, loading it with adds and making it suck.
Thats not the only reason. If you don't log in for 30 days (and logging into MSN Messenger doesn't count), then they delete all of your emails. As opposed to the philosophy of Google and Yahoo, which is "keep your emails forever".
Microsoft prefers "you don't need old emails after 30 days". It's especially a pain for anyone who has a job that takes them away from home for more than 30 days. Oh say, like the military? Can't exactly check your Hotmail account from a hole in the deserts of Iraq and Afghanistan, eh Mr. Gates?