Where's this online game again? I see a link that takes me to a link to a zip file.
On another note, I love links inside an article to take me to other places, but if it's about one specific link, put that in the notes at the bottom or something...
Actually VOIP phones do work in a power outage, at least in my area. During a friend's install, Verizon techs had to install a battery backup system that would work in the event of a power outage to ensure they could call 911 in an emergency.
Laptops are increasingly used by individual consumers, who will flock towards cheaper solutions (compared to business consumers). Not only lower cost, but home users have different needs, particularly in the media display department (like more TV/video/DVD watching), so 16:9 is getting more and more popular as there's no black bars needed to view their existing media. And displays like 1366x768 are extremely popular (just about the only option in in the 12"-14" market) because they're cheap and conform to the 16:9 ratio.
I'd love more vertical space (I had to settle for 768 pixels for my 13" laptop), but there's a $1,000 premium to go from a top of the line Acer to a top of the line Vaio, so forget it.
I bought a computer less than 3 months ago, which cost $700 on sale and has a new processor architecture that was released just earlier this year, and it barely meets the minimum requirements. It's not like this is an FPS - it shouldn't be hard to get this working in a reduced graphics mode for older computers.
>A) Replace the 20 mpg with 25 mpg >B) Replace the 20 mpg with 32 mpg.
Sure, it's trivial to know which one saves more gas - but I bet you can't tell me how much gas your save without breaking out a calculator and taking inverses.
Option A is 25% more than 20mpg, Option B is 60% more than 20mpg. So Option B clearly saves more than twice as much as A, right? Nope - it saves less than that.
Again, if we used GPM, this would all be much easier. How much gas would you save if you replaced a car that used 5 gallons/100mi with one that used 4 g/100m or one with 3.13 g/100m? Clearly Option A saves you 1/5th of gas, and the second option saves less than twice that.
And since you brought up likelyhoood of scenarios, this happens *all the time*. If you're deciding to replace your car with one that comes in either gasoline or hybrid/diesel, with the latter having a higher price tag, you need to know how much money you'll save on gas to see if it warrants a) buying the car and b) which model to buy. Seeing numbers like 32mpg vs 25mpg make people think the 32mpg is some huge money-saver over their current car, when it's really not. Hence - more people are buying new cars to save money on gas, and they're saving less than they realize.
Most people argue GPM is better for exactly those reasons - it's easier to compare. For example, you have two cars - one that gets 10 mpg and one that gets 33 mpg. You can replace the 10 mpg with one that gets 11 mpg, or replace the 33 mpg car with one that gets 45 mpg. Quick, which saves more gas?:
A) replace the 10 mpg with 11 mpg B) replace the 33 mpg with 45 mpg
The answer is A. The first changes from 10 gallons per 100 miles to 9 gallons per 100 miles - 1 gallon saved every hundred miles. Option B changes from 3 gallons per 100 miles to 2.2 gallons per 100 miles - less than a gallon saved (per 100 miles). It's completely non-intuitive if you use the backwards "mpg" measurement.
Sorry, I forgot to put in the car it was compared to - it was a ~$15,000 car that got 37mpg. Against a $40,000 car that gets 30mpg, it will take considerably less.
Clarification on my own post: the 320,000 figure was compared to a cheap car that gets 37mpg or so. Against most cars, it will take closer to 150,000 miles.
Well, it usually takes over 100,000 miles to break even, so the study, which only considers 5 years, is fairly useless. On a thread last week, someone calculated that a Prius will take 320,000 miles to to break even (and I checked the math, as we all like to do!). And the average Prius will last longer than 5 years - especially since those with a "greener" lifestyle know how bad buying a new car is for the environment.
I'd imagine about half of the cars pay back the owner in fuel costs. And it's obviously variable as gas prices are fairly volatile lately...
When Cobb was killed in limbo, how do you know he died? We know being killed gets you out of limbo - not only did it work before (with Cobb and Mol) but may have also worked while they were on the plane, because Adriana killed herself in limbo and woke up. When they woke up, there was no machine hooked up to them (the flight attendant had removed it) so they were no longer under heavy sedation.
Uh-huh - manufacturers spend money to put a film on screens to make them look worse. Let me guess - you don't work for a company that makes computer displays, right? Ignorance is one thing, but trying to teach others when you don't know what you're talking about is not nice.
If we're prioritizing efficiency, why not "GvM"? I care more about sensible names than efficient ones.
Framing it as "Glossy vs. Matte" is like saying "Bad gas mileage vs. Good gas mileage" for a vehicle, because glossy is not desirable (nor intended, really). Is everyone who drives a car with less than 30mpg an idiot for buying their car? No - because worse mileage is really a side effect of having a good/powerful engine that many people enjoy having.
I use Clear (formerly XOhm) as my ISP too and it's been great. No contract and $35/month. It's not bad, and worth checking out, although it's specific to where you are. I got 1Mbps in my old neighborhood and now reach 3Mbps and I'm only a mile down the road. A friend in Dundalk got 5Mbps.
Also, the ETF fee doesn't go up until you sign a new contract (old ETF is grandfathered in if you are still under contract), and by law the fee goes down every month. It's $5/month for AT&T so if it was $175 in December at the start of a 2-year contract in 2008, it should only be $85 or so now.
It's not fraudulent in the legal sense, which is what the OP was referring to.
For example, if you went around saying you built the Statue of Liberty, you would not be arrested for fraud. That is because simply lying, or taking credit for other people's work, or being an overall jerkwad, is not illegal.
Oh bullshit. You clearly don't know what's important in consumer devices (hint: it's something Apple products always have).
iPods have always been more locked and proprietary than their competitors, lacked basic features like FM transmitters, and were much more expensive to boot. And yet iPods outsell all of their competition combined 2 to 1.
You can sit there and think everyone else is stupid but you, but that's not the case. Some people, most people, will pay more for a better UI. You think all those soccer moms, grandparents and executives are Apple fanboys? They're not - they're just paying for a product that they see as better than the competition.
What better incentive for a deadline than a day famous for drinking? If they missed the target release, they'd be stuck working 12 hours today to rush it out.
While I believe it is AT&T's fault, read the article. According to it, AT&T does not prevent tethering on the iPhone and even tells the author how to enable it.
While I agree 100% that Toyota can be mechanically shifted into Neutral, what about the newer transmissions like BMW's 7-speed DCT (the joystick)? AFAIK a computer controls shifts to Neutral (as well as Park - there's no Park button on the M3/M5).
If you move to a flat tax and want to keep the same taxes coming in, nearly every single taxpayer would need to pay double or triple their current tax rate.
But Avatar is great. How many people can make a film with such good effects? And on a budget? The world was immersive, the cinematography was brilliant (which used a never-before-used technique that Cameron pioneered) and the director utilized new 3D cameras that no one else has ever used in a studio movie. Sure the plot is thin, but on a technical level, I don't think this movie has any competition.
You want a movie about a dysfunctional family shot with a steadycam? Maybe have Parker Posey or Michael Cera in it? Yeah, those don't make a billion dollars because they're not different. Some indie films are still great, but there are movies with good plots, and movies with great cinematography. There's room for both.
The lack of money is exactly why I watch the networks, and while they're not going anywhere. While friends are spending $100/month to watch a compressed TV signal, I get uncompressed HDTV for free. Sure I miss the cable channels, but it's not like there's nothing on. NBC alone has Conan O'Brien, The Office, 30 Rock, Law and Order, and SNL.
People are realizing that the networks are the most affordable way to watch good TV and that's not going to change anytime soon.
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http://files.dubfire.net/warner-tsa.pdf
Where's this online game again? I see a link that takes me to a link to a zip file.
On another note, I love links inside an article to take me to other places, but if it's about one specific link, put that in the notes at the bottom or something...
Actually VOIP phones do work in a power outage, at least in my area. During a friend's install, Verizon techs had to install a battery backup system that would work in the event of a power outage to ensure they could call 911 in an emergency.
RTFA, it's even in bold:
According to CPP a typical password can be breached by hackers in a matter of seconds
So this isn't open access points - it's networks that are locked down (with WEP)
Laptops are increasingly used by individual consumers, who will flock towards cheaper solutions (compared to business consumers). Not only lower cost, but home users have different needs, particularly in the media display department (like more TV/video/DVD watching), so 16:9 is getting more and more popular as there's no black bars needed to view their existing media. And displays like 1366x768 are extremely popular (just about the only option in in the 12"-14" market) because they're cheap and conform to the 16:9 ratio.
I'd love more vertical space (I had to settle for 768 pixels for my 13" laptop), but there's a $1,000 premium to go from a top of the line Acer to a top of the line Vaio, so forget it.
I bought a computer less than 3 months ago, which cost $700 on sale and has a new processor architecture that was released just earlier this year, and it barely meets the minimum requirements. It's not like this is an FPS - it shouldn't be hard to get this working in a reduced graphics mode for older computers.
>A) Replace the 20 mpg with 25 mpg
>B) Replace the 20 mpg with 32 mpg.
Sure, it's trivial to know which one saves more gas - but I bet you can't tell me how much gas your save without breaking out a calculator and taking inverses.
Option A is 25% more than 20mpg, Option B is 60% more than 20mpg. So Option B clearly saves more than twice as much as A, right? Nope - it saves less than that.
Again, if we used GPM, this would all be much easier. How much gas would you save if you replaced a car that used 5 gallons/100mi with one that used 4 g/100m or one with 3.13 g/100m? Clearly Option A saves you 1/5th of gas, and the second option saves less than twice that.
And since you brought up likelyhoood of scenarios, this happens *all the time*. If you're deciding to replace your car with one that comes in either gasoline or hybrid/diesel, with the latter having a higher price tag, you need to know how much money you'll save on gas to see if it warrants a) buying the car and b) which model to buy. Seeing numbers like 32mpg vs 25mpg make people think the 32mpg is some huge money-saver over their current car, when it's really not. Hence - more people are buying new cars to save money on gas, and they're saving less than they realize.
Most people argue GPM is better for exactly those reasons - it's easier to compare. For example, you have two cars - one that gets 10 mpg and one that gets 33 mpg. You can replace the 10 mpg with one that gets 11 mpg, or replace the 33 mpg car with one that gets 45 mpg. Quick, which saves more gas?:
A) replace the 10 mpg with 11 mpg
B) replace the 33 mpg with 45 mpg
The answer is A. The first changes from 10 gallons per 100 miles to 9 gallons per 100 miles - 1 gallon saved every hundred miles. Option B changes from 3 gallons per 100 miles to 2.2 gallons per 100 miles - less than a gallon saved (per 100 miles). It's completely non-intuitive if you use the backwards "mpg" measurement.
If we just used consumption instead of MPG, we wouldn't have this problem.
Sorry, I forgot to put in the car it was compared to - it was a ~$15,000 car that got 37mpg. Against a $40,000 car that gets 30mpg, it will take considerably less.
Clarification on my own post: the 320,000 figure was compared to a cheap car that gets 37mpg or so. Against most cars, it will take closer to 150,000 miles.
Well, it usually takes over 100,000 miles to break even, so the study, which only considers 5 years, is fairly useless. On a thread last week, someone calculated that a Prius will take 320,000 miles to to break even (and I checked the math, as we all like to do!). And the average Prius will last longer than 5 years - especially since those with a "greener" lifestyle know how bad buying a new car is for the environment.
I'd imagine about half of the cars pay back the owner in fuel costs. And it's obviously variable as gas prices are fairly volatile lately...
When Cobb was killed in limbo, how do you know he died? We know being killed gets you out of limbo - not only did it work before (with Cobb and Mol) but may have also worked while they were on the plane, because Adriana killed herself in limbo and woke up. When they woke up, there was no machine hooked up to them (the flight attendant had removed it) so they were no longer under heavy sedation.
Uh-huh - manufacturers spend money to put a film on screens to make them look worse. Let me guess - you don't work for a company that makes computer displays, right? Ignorance is one thing, but trying to teach others when you don't know what you're talking about is not nice.
The film doesn't allow the light to scatter when it hits the LCD surface, which has all sorts of benefits, such as more vibrant color.
If we're prioritizing efficiency, why not "GvM"? I care more about sensible names than efficient ones.
Framing it as "Glossy vs. Matte" is like saying "Bad gas mileage vs. Good gas mileage" for a vehicle, because glossy is not desirable (nor intended, really). Is everyone who drives a car with less than 30mpg an idiot for buying their car? No - because worse mileage is really a side effect of having a good/powerful engine that many people enjoy having.
It's easier to frame it as a "Glossy vs. Matte" debate, but no one goes out to make a glossy screen. Rather, the high amount of reflections is a side effect of the LCD surface treatment that allows for better color, brighter whites, and darker blacks.
So really it should be "Good-looking-screen-but-with-reflections vs. Not-as-good-looking-without-as-many-reflections"
I use Clear (formerly XOhm) as my ISP too and it's been great. No contract and $35/month. It's not bad, and worth checking out, although it's specific to where you are. I got 1Mbps in my old neighborhood and now reach 3Mbps and I'm only a mile down the road. A friend in Dundalk got 5Mbps.
Also, the ETF fee doesn't go up until you sign a new contract (old ETF is grandfathered in if you are still under contract), and by law the fee goes down every month. It's $5/month for AT&T so if it was $175 in December at the start of a 2-year contract in 2008, it should only be $85 or so now.
It's not fraudulent in the legal sense, which is what the OP was referring to.
For example, if you went around saying you built the Statue of Liberty, you would not be arrested for fraud. That is because simply lying, or taking credit for other people's work, or being an overall jerkwad, is not illegal.
Oh bullshit. You clearly don't know what's important in consumer devices (hint: it's something Apple products always have).
iPods have always been more locked and proprietary than their competitors, lacked basic features like FM transmitters, and were much more expensive to boot. And yet iPods outsell all of their competition combined 2 to 1.
You can sit there and think everyone else is stupid but you, but that's not the case. Some people, most people, will pay more for a better UI. You think all those soccer moms, grandparents and executives are Apple fanboys? They're not - they're just paying for a product that they see as better than the competition.
What better incentive for a deadline than a day famous for drinking? If they missed the target release, they'd be stuck working 12 hours today to rush it out.
While I believe it is AT&T's fault, read the article. According to it, AT&T does not prevent tethering on the iPhone and even tells the author how to enable it.
While I agree 100% that Toyota can be mechanically shifted into Neutral, what about the newer transmissions like BMW's 7-speed DCT (the joystick)? AFAIK a computer controls shifts to Neutral (as well as Park - there's no Park button on the M3/M5).
In modern cars, I keep hearing that warming up your car isn't needed, and can actually be bad for it. Note it still recommends 30-60s to let the fluids warm up, which makes sense.
Taxes would go up - significantly - for 95% of the population. Currently, the top 1% of taxpayers pay 40% of the taxes - more than the bottom 95%. Presumably because they can afford it.
If you move to a flat tax and want to keep the same taxes coming in, nearly every single taxpayer would need to pay double or triple their current tax rate.
But Avatar is great. How many people can make a film with such good effects? And on a budget? The world was immersive, the cinematography was brilliant (which used a never-before-used technique that Cameron pioneered) and the director utilized new 3D cameras that no one else has ever used in a studio movie. Sure the plot is thin, but on a technical level, I don't think this movie has any competition.
You want a movie about a dysfunctional family shot with a steadycam? Maybe have Parker Posey or Michael Cera in it? Yeah, those don't make a billion dollars because they're not different. Some indie films are still great, but there are movies with good plots, and movies with great cinematography. There's room for both.
The lack of money is exactly why I watch the networks, and while they're not going anywhere. While friends are spending $100/month to watch a compressed TV signal, I get uncompressed HDTV for free. Sure I miss the cable channels, but it's not like there's nothing on. NBC alone has Conan O'Brien, The Office, 30 Rock, Law and Order, and SNL.
People are realizing that the networks are the most affordable way to watch good TV and that's not going to change anytime soon.