Ummm... ya, it is - go to a Walmart and buy an iTunes store card or prepaid cell phone airtime card (being the only thing you buy in that transaction). Receipt says the price on the merchandise and then the tax and total, etc.
I should know, since for the past year I've been working as "That guy in Electronics"...
So I take it when you put 4 of em in a motherboard with 4 pci-x 16 slots, which normally be quad-sli, and now octo-sli (?), the power company takes you off the grid having made the assumption you're trying to run a particle accelerator?
Furthermore - Google results filtered down to the asus.com site gives only a result for a forum post and a mod commenting on it...
People are providing these links to Asus.co.uk, which while under the same registrar, certainly isn't the same as uk.asus.com (going to the latter by visiting asus.com and selecting Europe and UK), and that all of the other regions/localizations on the asus.com site use the *(country code).asus.com/ format, not the asus.*.* format...
Hell if I can guess whats going on, because changing the.co.uk to look for other models (eee 901a, etc) give nothing, but killing it down to.co.uk/ redirects to the asus.com site...
I remember back in the days of Desert Combat when I was in early high school, getting the idea of parking mobile AA on the hillside, allowing you to get the gun pointed down farther than being level and using the AA guns against people - was great stuff, then a month or 2 later EVERYBODY was using it...
I mean, I doubt I was the first person to do it, but I'd never seen or heard of anybody else doing it before after playing it for months myself...
There was also that annoying crap on Alamein (I think?) where the Iraqis team would use a combo of the SCUD and guided SAM to blow the hell outta your airfield and vehicles
Or Bocage, with people flying the Little Bird helo up in the clouds (beyond your visibility or theirs) and minigun spray-n-praying the other base...
The most described system is 'an orbiting tungsten telephone pole with small fins and a computer in the back for guidance.' The weapon can be down-scaled as small as several meters long, an orbiting "crowbar" rather than a pole.
The time between deorbiting and impact would only be a few minutes, and depending on the orbits and positions in the orbits, the system would have a world-wide range. There is no requirement to deploy missiles, aircraft or other vehicles. Although the SALT II (1979) prohibited the deployment of orbital weapons of mass destruction, it did not prohibit the deployment of conventional weapons.
The weapon inflicts damage because it moves at orbital velocities, at least 9 kilometers per second. The amount of energy released by the largest version when it hits the ground is roughly comparable to a small nuclear weapon or very large conventional bomb. Smaller weapons can deliver measured amounts of energy as small as a 500 lb conventional bomb.
The "pole" shape is optimal because it enhances reentry and maximizes the device's ability to penetrate hard or buried targets. The larger device is expected to be quite good at penetrating deeply buried bunkers and other command and control targets. The smaller "crowbar" size might be employed for anti-armor, anti-aircraft, anti-satellite and possibly anti-personnel use.
The weapon would be very hard to defend against. It has a very high closing velocity and a small radar cross-section. Launch is difficult to detect. Any infra-red launch signature occurs in orbit, at no fixed position. The infra-red launch signature also has a small magnitude compared to a ballistic missile launch. One drawback of the system is that the weapon's sensors would almost certainly be blind during reentry due to the plasma sheath that would develop ahead of it, so a mobile target could be difficult to hit if it performed any unexpected maneuvering.
Also, I'd imagine that would be less expensive than actual nukes, since while you still need the rockets and cost of fuel might rise since launch mass increases, at least you don't have to spend money on making and maintaining nuclear warheads with such weapons...
They've certainly become more common and cheaper, but still not common enough. I guess there will always be loads of people to stupid to be bothered to care, but its annoying to hear people asking about "UBS" sticks at the Walmart I work at, or a college student coming in asking where the CD-RW's are because his idiot "computer science" professor insists on assignments being turned in via CD...
Basically, until its as common as asking where the ketchup or milk aisle is, its still not common enough...
I'm surprised it took as far as your comment for somebody to mention that - no need to carry a squad or 2 of marines when one or 2 snipers with a Barret.50cal and a 20mm, pick off either one guy at long range, say the pirate captain, or the entire ship if they keep coming...
Actually a lot of people seem to think it will help to get people to switch from Windows, assuming that long boot times particularly with Vista has people annoyed... You know, for those times when you wanna turn on your laptop for some school or professional work, but have to go get a coffee first because no matter which OS you use on that brand new hardware it still boots slow...
Except most people are looking for something closer to Netflix, where as most any plan I've seen for digital cable + dvr + movie tiers + on demand is going to cost $150 USD monthly - not cool...
Because a company that big isn't going to have domain wide policies redirecting user's documents folders to some type of networked storage? His pc doesn't need to be on because while he thinks he saved that report to "My Documents" or pretty much any file-system path, it really went right from RAM (maybe cached on local HDD) to the NAS or SAN...
I'd think it would be easier to do with a vending machine or ATM concept. Set the machines every other block or so, and accept cash and debit. You pay, and the nearest available cab comes to that spot. Paying the hail/flag-down fee first would help eliminate the assholes and pranksters that would stand there and spam the button and run off as the cabbie gets there just to waste the driver's time...
Of course, the driver can still pick up people the normal way also, no reason not to...
It could easily enough be argued that a server was unknowingly compromised and used to host part of it, and considering such actually happened to make parts of the French Navy, British military, etc, all criminal as AFAIK Conficker is now using a P2P update system...
sounds kinda odd, as far as I know extensions are supposedly the main source of firefox instability, even with a super buggy installation, uninstalling a culprit extension stabilizes the same installation... since that's not the case...
the only times I've heard of not being unable to uninstall an extension is if it's installed with the system package manager (.exe or.msi installer on Windows) and that it has to be uninstalled through that method also. Kinda like that.Net one MS did, or language packs on some Linux distros...
Maybe it would be one of the.Net or AVG extensions?
You may already know all this, but what extensions do you have installed? Uninstall any unused extensions, and see if there's a decent separate application for anything like the browser chat ones, ftp downloaders, rss readers, etc.
I have Adblock Plus, All-in-one Sidebar, Compact Menu 2, Configuration Mania, Foxmarks, Java Quick Starter, Mouse Gestures Redox, NoScript, Remove It Permanently, Web Developer, and the 4chan extensions installed and active right now - and my Firefox 3.0.7 on XP Pro works fantastic. I don't use the RSS reader extensions because I don't want to have to run my browser all the time when I can run the much smaller Feedreader program. I don't understand why people run their browser (any browser) for 2 weeks on end so they can keep 30 tabs open *all* the time...
Firefox 2 was admittedly a resource hog, but I think had good security and other features over Firefox 1.5 and other 1.0.x branches. The main issue I had with Firefox 2 was stability, which Firefox 3 fixed.
Again, check what extensions you use and uninstall any unused and/or ones that can be outperformed and outfeatured by actual applications, and I think you'll see your Firefox experience get a lot better... Also, being spoiled by Firefox, even I've just about forgotten how horrid IE6 was, and even IE7 - most definitely not something I'd willingly go back to...
Except I can tell you they won't use something like Asus for the motherboard, more like MSI or Gigabyte, which are also reputable, but cheaper in price, and though the Dell case probably is only worth the $100 or so, they still could put in a much nicer case for another 50 to 100 bucks, another 50 for a card with better cooling, the hard drive they used is $179...
Basically, they could save 50 bucks on the motherboard, put it towards a better version of the graphics card, which after accounting for the hdd, would only put them at maybe $1200. So they're making a pretty easy $300 bucks per system there...
Yet another overpriced and underspec'ed "gaming" machine from an OEM. As always, the proc is pretty good, but *only* 4GiB of RAM and *only* a Radeon 4850, for that price? No way...
For that much cash, and also considering OEM's like to have bigger numbers on their checklists to sell better, give me an MSI K9A2 Platinum, 8GiB of RAM, and the x2 variant of the graphics card, in quad-sli, leaving 2 PCI-Xpress slots open for more later (it is marketed as "enthusiast/gamer")
That's not to say 4GiB of RAM isn't already a metric ton, but for that price...
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Ummm... ya, it is - go to a Walmart and buy an iTunes store card or prepaid cell phone airtime card (being the only thing you buy in that transaction). Receipt says the price on the merchandise and then the tax and total, etc.
I should know, since for the past year I've been working as "That guy in Electronics"...
So I take it when you put 4 of em in a motherboard with 4 pci-x 16 slots, which normally be quad-sli, and now octo-sli (?), the power company takes you off the grid having made the assumption you're trying to run a particle accelerator?
Furthermore - Google results filtered down to the asus.com site gives only a result for a forum post and a mod commenting on it...
.co.uk to look for other models (eee 901a, etc) give nothing, but killing it down to .co.uk/ redirects to the asus.com site...
People are providing these links to Asus.co.uk, which while under the same registrar, certainly isn't the same as uk.asus.com (going to the latter by visiting asus.com and selecting Europe and UK), and that all of the other regions/localizations on the asus.com site use the *(country code).asus.com/ format, not the asus.*.* format...
Hell if I can guess whats going on, because changing the
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You know, I heard Vista SP2 shoots the total install and update time to about 2.5 hours...
Correction:
I remember back in the days of Desert Combat when I was in early high school, getting the idea of parking mobile AA on the hillside, allowing you to get the gun pointed down farther than being level and using the AA guns against people - was great stuff, then a month or 2 later EVERYBODY was using it...
I mean, I doubt I was the first person to do it, but I'd never seen or heard of anybody else doing it before after playing it for months myself...
There was also that annoying crap on Alamein (I think?) where the Iraqis team would use a combo of the SCUD and guided SAM to blow the hell outta your airfield and vehicles
Or Bocage, with people flying the Little Bird helo up in the clouds (beyond your visibility or theirs) and minigun spray-n-praying the other base...
My god! Skynet found... Wikipedia!
Also, I'd imagine that would be less expensive than actual nukes, since while you still need the rockets and cost of fuel might rise since launch mass increases, at least you don't have to spend money on making and maintaining nuclear warheads with such weapons...
They've certainly become more common and cheaper, but still not common enough. I guess there will always be loads of people to stupid to be bothered to care, but its annoying to hear people asking about "UBS" sticks at the Walmart I work at, or a college student coming in asking where the CD-RW's are because his idiot "computer science" professor insists on assignments being turned in via CD...
Basically, until its as common as asking where the ketchup or milk aisle is, its still not common enough...
I'm surprised it took as far as your comment for somebody to mention that - no need to carry a squad or 2 of marines when one or 2 snipers with a Barret .50cal and a 20mm, pick off either one guy at long range, say the pirate captain, or the entire ship if they keep coming...
Actually a lot of people seem to think it will help to get people to switch from Windows, assuming that long boot times particularly with Vista has people annoyed... You know, for those times when you wanna turn on your laptop for some school or professional work, but have to go get a coffee first because no matter which OS you use on that brand new hardware it still boots slow...
Except most people are looking for something closer to Netflix, where as most any plan I've seen for digital cable + dvr + movie tiers + on demand is going to cost $150 USD monthly - not cool...
Because a company that big isn't going to have domain wide policies redirecting user's documents folders to some type of networked storage? His pc doesn't need to be on because while he thinks he saved that report to "My Documents" or pretty much any file-system path, it really went right from RAM (maybe cached on local HDD) to the NAS or SAN...
I'd think it would be easier to do with a vending machine or ATM concept. Set the machines every other block or so, and accept cash and debit. You pay, and the nearest available cab comes to that spot. Paying the hail/flag-down fee first would help eliminate the assholes and pranksters that would stand there and spam the button and run off as the cabbie gets there just to waste the driver's time...
Of course, the driver can still pick up people the normal way also, no reason not to...
Crap, you just made the kid go from being a hacker because he knows to use the mail command to being Neo hacking the Matrix with his eyes...
It could easily enough be argued that a server was unknowingly compromised and used to host part of it, and considering such actually happened to make parts of the French Navy, British military, etc, all criminal as AFAIK Conficker is now using a P2P update system...
actually, its this
Ya, but it'd all be Lemon Party and Goatse...
sounds kinda odd, as far as I know extensions are supposedly the main source of firefox instability, even with a super buggy installation, uninstalling a culprit extension stabilizes the same installation... since that's not the case...
.msi installer on Windows) and that it has to be uninstalled through that method also. Kinda like that .Net one MS did, or language packs on some Linux distros...
.Net or AVG extensions?
the only times I've heard of not being unable to uninstall an extension is if it's installed with the system package manager (.exe or
Maybe it would be one of the
You may already know all this, but what extensions do you have installed? Uninstall any unused extensions, and see if there's a decent separate application for anything like the browser chat ones, ftp downloaders, rss readers, etc.
I have Adblock Plus, All-in-one Sidebar, Compact Menu 2, Configuration Mania, Foxmarks, Java Quick Starter, Mouse Gestures Redox, NoScript, Remove It Permanently, Web Developer, and the 4chan extensions installed and active right now - and my Firefox 3.0.7 on XP Pro works fantastic. I don't use the RSS reader extensions because I don't want to have to run my browser all the time when I can run the much smaller Feedreader program. I don't understand why people run their browser (any browser) for 2 weeks on end so they can keep 30 tabs open *all* the time...
Firefox 2 was admittedly a resource hog, but I think had good security and other features over Firefox 1.5 and other 1.0.x branches. The main issue I had with Firefox 2 was stability, which Firefox 3 fixed.
Again, check what extensions you use and uninstall any unused and/or ones that can be outperformed and outfeatured by actual applications, and I think you'll see your Firefox experience get a lot better... Also, being spoiled by Firefox, even I've just about forgotten how horrid IE6 was, and even IE7 - most definitely not something I'd willingly go back to...
This seems appropriate...
no, that's still evil... we condone much worse - socially engineered DDoS attacks, now with angry mob potency!
Except I can tell you they won't use something like Asus for the motherboard, more like MSI or Gigabyte, which are also reputable, but cheaper in price, and though the Dell case probably is only worth the $100 or so, they still could put in a much nicer case for another 50 to 100 bucks, another 50 for a card with better cooling, the hard drive they used is $179...
Basically, they could save 50 bucks on the motherboard, put it towards a better version of the graphics card, which after accounting for the hdd, would only put them at maybe $1200. So they're making a pretty easy $300 bucks per system there...
Yet another overpriced and underspec'ed "gaming" machine from an OEM. As always, the proc is pretty good, but *only* 4GiB of RAM and *only* a Radeon 4850, for that price? No way...
For that much cash, and also considering OEM's like to have bigger numbers on their checklists to sell better, give me an MSI K9A2 Platinum, 8GiB of RAM, and the x2 variant of the graphics card, in quad-sli, leaving 2 PCI-Xpress slots open for more later (it is marketed as "enthusiast/gamer")
That's not to say 4GiB of RAM isn't already a metric ton, but for that price...