I wasn't trying to say that the taxes were the only issue, I was just of the undestanding that they were an issue. My above post didn't give my personal viewpoint but probably insinuated that I was anti-gay marriage, which I'm not. I was just trying to translate another post from 'Asshat' to 'English'.
Not that I agree with his remark, but IIRC, one (of many) reasons that same-sex couples wanted to be able to marry was to be afforded the same tax shelter of marriage granted to heterosexual couples, which certainly involves the state.
Presumably this is what was meant by "normal" marriages.
Yeah, mac users will never be able to compete with people who spend $1000 to play 'niche' games on a computer. Yeah idiots like Mac users will probably just have to spend $50 dollars on a gamecube and play stuff created by the world greatest games developers... oh dear. Not to worry Vista should be out soon, so you will be able to spend another $100 on making your email program run more slowly. How the world of technology envies you!!!!
I spent less on my gaming computer than anyone has ever spent on a new Mac [not a mini, a real computer with some actual performance capabilities], and it can run a lot of very good games not made by "the worlds greatest game developers". [Obligatory: Yes, it runs linux]. Of course, your entire post is baseless opinions, and was likely modded insightful by some other Mac fanboy. The majority of the people who I know buying new Macs are people who don't share my view that paying $2500 for a laptop to play mp3s and do word processing is ridiculous.
On the other hand, I would personally love to see Windows have some real competition, and I would really love to see Mac end up with a large enough market share that their hardware and software get shorn apart by the DoJ, because if they were in Microsoft's position, that would be an antitrust suit waiting to happen.
No... Windows will continue to represent the 'world of computing' to people who don't know what a computer is (and presumably think that Macdonald's make the best food in the world!!).
What the fuck is this? Seriously? I don't agree with your fanboy opinions of Mac so presumably I'm an uncultured slob? -1 Flamebait.
Or just generate random passwords and make the users deal with it. They're your workers. I work for a DoD company, and our classified passwords are stuff like ckL7Js80 and change every six months. Crack that garbage - there's what, 62^8 possible passwords there? It a pain, but you just have to memorize the new one. If you get caught writing it down somewhere, you face discipline up to being fired.
There was a slightly similar story from my Freshman year of college, only it involved a drunk kid who lived across the hall from me and some girl's brand new $2600 laptop (which of course he had to replace out of pocket). At least he didn't do it deliberately, he "thought it was a trash can".
This doesn't necessarily completely contradict the GP's point. They can still be charged with armed robbery, but it is often a mitigating factor when it comes to sentencing, and an unarmed 'armed robber' may get a sentence as light as a year or two when parole is said and done, or less if it's a first time offense.
Funny, I went to an engineering school [Lehigh], and the business majors were the ones having heart attacks over their multiple choice finals because they spent the whole semester chasing tail and wasting daddy's money, while we got drunk and played video games because we had busted our asses all semester long.
Of course, anyone with a pulse could complete a marketing major there in about 3 semesters, so maybe that's a poor school for a comparison.
Except the guy digging it up may not know where it is because the guy who buried it didn't mark it properly. You may be putting the wrong candidates up for the Darwin award.
Because 2 10K Raptors in Raid 0 isnt worth the speed increase. Last time I checked you may get a 20% increase, and reduced data integrity. I did some research into this a while ago, check out this article, very informative
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Why? For the price of a 36Gb Raptor you can get 300Gb el cheapo drives. I put 4 of those in a RAID5 on my SATA1 controller and get write speeds of 130MBytes/s (reads at 180MBytes/s according to dd). More diskspace with a higher reliability compared to RAID0 without the need to move suff around.
Sure the drives are more likely to fail, but then again so is that single 250Gb "for everything else" drive.
I never said it was worth it or not worth it. I just said the basic idea of what's in the article could already be done in a desktop, and indeed people do do it. Besides, gamers don't tend to care as much about data integrity, because with the exception of save files if they're playing non-online games, they don't have anything to lose that can't be reinstalled in an afternoon. I think it's obvious that exactly what was stated in the article, a combination of RAID 10 and RAID 5, will never appear in any mainstream desktops. Why or why not is up to the user.
Put two 10k Raptors in Raid 0 for your games and other stuff you need REALLY FAST, and then have a big 250GB 7200RPM drive for everything else. People are doing that already.
All you would need is some software for automatically moving it around. Though most people with desktop rigs like that probably would rather control what is on which drives themselves.
I've never had a panic attack, so I can't speak completely from experience, but I am firmly in the camp that stressing out too much about a test hurts your chances. Some level of fear is good, it makes you prepare, but as you've seen, too much can be very detrimental.
The obvious first course of action is to know the material well, never miss class unless you absolutely have to, and do all your assignments. This helps you have a good base of knowledge, so there won't be as much you need to learn right before the test. I like to try to get a good night's sleep before a final.
Unless it's an early test, I will study more the day of the test, but I always stop an hour or two before, and do something completely different, like play video games or cook myself a meal, that gets my mind off the subject for a while, and requires enough attention to actually change what I'm thinking about. The meal helps doubly, since you need the energy to keep you going for a three hour (or longer) exam, unless you're someone who gets sick to the stomach with stress.
The first thing I always do with a test is page through it, see how long it is and what looks easy and what looks hard. Do the easy things, and the quick points, first, then go back and work through things that are more difficult. Don't add up your points as you go - that'll only make you more nervous. Every half an hour or hour, I'll just stop for a few seconds and stare at the ceiling to keep myself from getting overworked and keep myself thinking clearly.
And remember, if you think the test is hard, chances are everyone else does too, and a 50 ain't bad if the average is 42.
Almost certainly includes small roads' bridges over the interstate. They may be less than 1/mile in some areas, but it seems like in much of the northeast, especially cities, they're quite frequent.
My own opinion is that conversations inside the car are less distracting than cell phone conversations because the second party to the converstation is aware of the situation outside the car and knows when to shut up or to wait for an answer. The person on the other end of the cell phone conversation doesn't have this extra input and so the conversation doesn't have the natural breaks for heavy traffic that an in-car converstation would have.
Mod parent up. I think this is a very good point. Passengers seem to have the same "Oh, shit" reaction to chaos on the roadway that the driver does.
Regardless of the respective roles of Pluto and Charon in the duet, the Pluto/Charon center of mass has an orbit around the Sun. This orbit is what I was referring to, and it is both tilted with respect the planes of and far more eliptical than the orbits of the other 8 planets. As they discover other massive objects out in that region of space (Xena, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_UB313, among others) Pluto seems more similar to them than it does to the rest of the planets. Whether that means we have 8 planets or more than 9 is a matter of semantics.
Our moon rotates on its own day/night cycle as it revolves around the Earth, but the same side of Pluto is always facing the same side of Charon.
The same side of our moon is always facing the earth. It has days and nights because of its orbit around the earth. Friction from tidal forces has long since brought its rotation in sync with its revolution.
I wonder if these new moons plus Pluto and Charon would be massive enough (as one) to be above the controversy over Pluto's planethood?
Probably not, the new moons don't have very much mass anyway, and Pluto's planethood is questioned as much by its eccentric orbit and its resemblence to Kuiper belt objects as by its mass.
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And I'll remember to tip well the next time I'm out to dinner.
I wasn't trying to say that the taxes were the only issue, I was just of the undestanding that they were an issue. My above post didn't give my personal viewpoint but probably insinuated that I was anti-gay marriage, which I'm not. I was just trying to translate another post from 'Asshat' to 'English'.
It wouldn't be if they could easily adopt, which I'm sure many would want to. [I understand the key word, easily, is likely a long way off]
Hmm.. Correct, and interesting. I'll have to remember that when the time comes.
Not that I agree with his remark, but IIRC, one (of many) reasons that same-sex couples wanted to be able to marry was to be afforded the same tax shelter of marriage granted to heterosexual couples, which certainly involves the state.
Presumably this is what was meant by "normal" marriages.
Yeah, mac users will never be able to compete with people who spend $1000 to play 'niche' games on a computer. Yeah idiots like Mac users will probably just have to spend $50 dollars on a gamecube and play stuff created by the world greatest games developers... oh dear. Not to worry Vista should be out soon, so you will be able to spend another $100 on making your email program run more slowly. How the world of technology envies you!!!!
I spent less on my gaming computer than anyone has ever spent on a new Mac [not a mini, a real computer with some actual performance capabilities], and it can run a lot of very good games not made by "the worlds greatest game developers". [Obligatory: Yes, it runs linux]. Of course, your entire post is baseless opinions, and was likely modded insightful by some other Mac fanboy. The majority of the people who I know buying new Macs are people who don't share my view that paying $2500 for a laptop to play mp3s and do word processing is ridiculous.
On the other hand, I would personally love to see Windows have some real competition, and I would really love to see Mac end up with a large enough market share that their hardware and software get shorn apart by the DoJ, because if they were in Microsoft's position, that would be an antitrust suit waiting to happen.
No... Windows will continue to represent the 'world of computing' to people who don't know what a computer is (and presumably think that Macdonald's make the best food in the world!!).
What the fuck is this? Seriously? I don't agree with your fanboy opinions of Mac so presumably I'm an uncultured slob? -1 Flamebait.
Or just generate random passwords and make the users deal with it. They're your workers. I work for a DoD company, and our classified passwords are stuff like ckL7Js80 and change every six months. Crack that garbage - there's what, 62^8 possible passwords there? It a pain, but you just have to memorize the new one. If you get caught writing it down somewhere, you face discipline up to being fired.
I hate to be the one to point this out, but your sarcasm detector is seriously in need of a tune-up.
Thanks, Steven.
So don't watch TV and save a few bucks on the cable bill. Society got by for thousands of years without it.
How did this get modded funny? It's true. It's sad. But you have to have a pretty dark sense of humor to think it's funny.
They also want a cheap machine that will run anything, and... you know where this is going.
There was a slightly similar story from my Freshman year of college, only it involved a drunk kid who lived across the hall from me and some girl's brand new $2600 laptop (which of course he had to replace out of pocket). At least he didn't do it deliberately, he "thought it was a trash can".
This doesn't necessarily completely contradict the GP's point. They can still be charged with armed robbery, but it is often a mitigating factor when it comes to sentencing, and an unarmed 'armed robber' may get a sentence as light as a year or two when parole is said and done, or less if it's a first time offense.
Funny, I went to an engineering school [Lehigh], and the business majors were the ones having heart attacks over their multiple choice finals because they spent the whole semester chasing tail and wasting daddy's money, while we got drunk and played video games because we had busted our asses all semester long.
Of course, anyone with a pulse could complete a marketing major there in about 3 semesters, so maybe that's a poor school for a comparison.
Except the guy digging it up may not know where it is because the guy who buried it didn't mark it properly. You may be putting the wrong candidates up for the Darwin award.
Until he has an 'accident' on the Autobahn and then it's business as usual...
Because 2 10K Raptors in Raid 0 isnt worth the speed increase. Last time I checked you may get a 20% increase, and reduced data integrity. I did some research into this a while ago, check out this article, very informative
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Why? For the price of a 36Gb Raptor you can get 300Gb el cheapo drives. I put 4 of those in a RAID5 on my SATA1 controller and get write speeds of 130MBytes/s (reads at 180MBytes/s according to dd). More diskspace with a higher reliability compared to RAID0 without the need to move suff around.
Sure the drives are more likely to fail, but then again so is that single 250Gb "for everything else" drive.
I never said it was worth it or not worth it. I just said the basic idea of what's in the article could already be done in a desktop, and indeed people do do it. Besides, gamers don't tend to care as much about data integrity, because with the exception of save files if they're playing non-online games, they don't have anything to lose that can't be reinstalled in an afternoon. I think it's obvious that exactly what was stated in the article, a combination of RAID 10 and RAID 5, will never appear in any mainstream desktops. Why or why not is up to the user.
Put two 10k Raptors in Raid 0 for your games and other stuff you need REALLY FAST, and then have a big 250GB 7200RPM drive for everything else. People are doing that already.
All you would need is some software for automatically moving it around. Though most people with desktop rigs like that probably would rather control what is on which drives themselves.
I've never had a panic attack, so I can't speak completely from experience, but I am firmly in the camp that stressing out too much about a test hurts your chances. Some level of fear is good, it makes you prepare, but as you've seen, too much can be very detrimental.
The obvious first course of action is to know the material well, never miss class unless you absolutely have to, and do all your assignments. This helps you have a good base of knowledge, so there won't be as much you need to learn right before the test. I like to try to get a good night's sleep before a final.
Unless it's an early test, I will study more the day of the test, but I always stop an hour or two before, and do something completely different, like play video games or cook myself a meal, that gets my mind off the subject for a while, and requires enough attention to actually change what I'm thinking about. The meal helps doubly, since you need the energy to keep you going for a three hour (or longer) exam, unless you're someone who gets sick to the stomach with stress.
The first thing I always do with a test is page through it, see how long it is and what looks easy and what looks hard. Do the easy things, and the quick points, first, then go back and work through things that are more difficult. Don't add up your points as you go - that'll only make you more nervous. Every half an hour or hour, I'll just stop for a few seconds and stare at the ceiling to keep myself from getting overworked and keep myself thinking clearly.
And remember, if you think the test is hard, chances are everyone else does too, and a 50 ain't bad if the average is 42.
Almost certainly includes small roads' bridges over the interstate. They may be less than 1/mile in some areas, but it seems like in much of the northeast, especially cities, they're quite frequent.
My own opinion is that conversations inside the car are less distracting than cell phone conversations because the second party to the converstation is aware of the situation outside the car and knows when to shut up or to wait for an answer. The person on the other end of the cell phone conversation doesn't have this extra input and so the conversation doesn't have the natural breaks for heavy traffic that an in-car converstation would have.
Mod parent up. I think this is a very good point. Passengers seem to have the same "Oh, shit" reaction to chaos on the roadway that the driver does.
Fair enough, mod me -1 reading comprehension :)
Regardless of the respective roles of Pluto and Charon in the duet, the Pluto/Charon center of mass has an orbit around the Sun. This orbit is what I was referring to, and it is both tilted with respect the planes of and far more eliptical than the orbits of the other 8 planets. As they discover other massive objects out in that region of space (Xena, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_UB313, among others) Pluto seems more similar to them than it does to the rest of the planets. Whether that means we have 8 planets or more than 9 is a matter of semantics.
Our moon rotates on its own day/night cycle as it revolves around the Earth, but the same side of Pluto is always facing the same side of Charon.
The same side of our moon is always facing the earth. It has days and nights because of its orbit around the earth. Friction from tidal forces has long since brought its rotation in sync with its revolution.
I wonder if these new moons plus Pluto and Charon would be massive enough (as one) to be above the controversy over Pluto's planethood?
Probably not, the new moons don't have very much mass anyway, and Pluto's planethood is questioned as much by its eccentric orbit and its resemblence to Kuiper belt objects as by its mass.