Some well written code... Just might go so fast that the space time continuim bends to accomodate a new class of ultimate power in the universe.;) Unfortunatly, you aren't going to find a whole lot of that in Vista. =P
Actually, if we start mining uranium, people are going to think, cheap energy all over again. Then its only going to get mined even faster than we used oil. Then, In less than 100 years we will have found a way to use most of it up, where will we be then?
We are better off trying other sources of energy that can be reproduced.
Nuclear power is limited. We can't reproduce uranium. Uranium is what is naturally used to heat up the earth's core through fission and geologic subduction we'd be burning the candle at the other end.
We'd be better off using oil.. Because with oil and fuel engines we can grow our fuel and not even have to replace the engine, just tune it differently.
It's more of a local contract thing. In order to build the plant they had to say they'd sell everything the locals needed in exchange for building the plant. Then, its the power brokers who make the fortune selling it across the US.
In San Francisco PG&E could easily get another MW by bumping up the incentives for solar power in the local area affected. Incentives should be market driven. Basically if you live in an area where there are a lot of companies looking to use up more power. Instead of moving in more high power lines they simply set higher incentives for more Solar cells to increase the available capacity in the specific cities that they request power. Lot of times the base load during the evening/night is more than enough to accomodate all the extra power requirements that a business would request.
It's a win-win for PG&E because they get the bigger customer and they get the solar power at a cheaper rate than buying it from elsewhere.
I think a better solution would be to carry that algae stuff they are testing on coal power plants now and use it in our vehicles. Since fuel cells produce the two primary ingredients anyways. Water, and CO2.
Basicall, we'd be producing biodiesel while we drive. We'd get a tax credit in return for our continued donations of carbon growing algae. Granted this wouldn't pull out all the carbon we produce. But it might come close enough to pay for itself or damn close to carbon nuetral.
What happens if I sand off my finger prints before I leave the country. Or get superglue all over my hands. I always thought of doing this before I ever left the country so they couldn't take any prints. Seems painful, but I like the idea of being unprintable.
Think about it this way. We need fuel consumption to pay fuel taxes. If we get more effecient, then we have lower tax revenues and the politicians will be forced to get it from somewhere else. Our economy is dependent on cheap oil because cheap oil pays taxes. More taxes give the government more power.
Actually, I think I'm right, because today's consumer is about 10 times better educated than the consumer at the time of Betamax vs VHS. Plus, its all about the marketing. Consumers these days know or have a good idea of what DRM is all about. Many of them do not like it. All it would take is an outside vendor offering a product without the DRM installed in it. Then, they could market it against the likes of intel or AMD. Then, you'd see salespeople, technical people, students, etc all working against the new standard because they would no longer recommend the product that doesn't work.
Then, no one will buy a new CPU. Intel and AMD aren't stupid. they know the consumer will run if they add this crap to thier products.
Personally, I might buy a new CPU, but I'd never use it for music. If they suddenly required that I had to have a new CPU to play or download new music then I'd just stop buying music and just listen to the classics I do have and only buy the independent artists out there who don't use the DRM like I do now. I'm not alone in my practice. I personally know a half-dozen people who follow the same practice.
I think that the artists should get 50 percent of all settlements...
The RIAA of course would balk at this. But it goes with thier primary arguement that its robbing the musician of hard earned money. If artists got half of all settlements they'd be more likely to help the RIAA catch people.
If you are a terrorist and you want to cause mass chaos. How would you do it?
You'd most likely want to create some form of confusion or distraction before hitting your main target.
I'd think this a precursor to a bigger plot. If I was thinking along these lines I'd be cutting them and seeing what the end results are. If I could label and see which ones do what and invoke certain responses then I'd wait before doing it again. The next time I'd probably create something that acted via a timer. This way I could attack, destroy communications, then attack again creating chaos and confusion. Through a very specific set time.
However, the counter arguement here is that anything they can do to the LAN cables we could easily counter-act with wireless transmission as Satellites are more than capable of carrying the necessary data for communication. This pretty much only isolates the European world from the internet, which isn't going to do much on the grand scheme of things.
The Plot is probably thicker but not much by my guess. Unless the NSA is using the downtime to break the cable elsewhere and run off thier own data spying cable via the lines. I doubt it..
Churches still seem to cling on this old wood with its shiny new varnish and try ot make it better with pads. But at the end of the day, its still a Pew.
Actually many churches do have movie nights, Concert/band nights, game nights. It's all part of the church community gathering. Not all of it has to be for prayer. A lot of it really is just giving people a reason to gather in a no pressure environment so they can talk, pray, learn, etc.
It's really not much different than an ice cream social. Would you rather they go door to door and bother you?? How are they getting a free Ride? You could argue that sports Bars likewise get a free ride.. Why not make a clean alternative where you can still enjoy the game without all the beer, drugs, sex, etc that you'd find in a typical sports bar?
"The flip side marketing effect"
If I didn't have the alternative of going to a church to watch the game in a group. I likely wouldn't even watch any football games or sporting events for that matter. I pay for cable even. I just don't watch much sports unless its in a group setting. However, I've also paid for countless number of tickets and goods for sporting events etc over the years because I was brought into sports via a group at church. You can effectively argue that the NFL is essentially losing future customers by not choosing to support alternatives for people to gather.
Actually many churches do have movie nights, Concert/band nights, game nights. It's all part of the church community gathering. Not all of it has to be for prayer. A lot of it really is just giving people a reason to gather in a no pressure environment so they can talk, pray, learn, etc.
It's really not much different than an ice cream social. Would you rather they go door to door and bother you?? How are they getting a free Ride? You could argue that sports Bars likewise get a free ride.. Why not make a clean alternative where you can still enjoy the game without all the beer, drugs, sex, etc that you'd find in a typical sports bar?
"The flip side marketing effect"
If I didn't have the alternative of going to a church to watch the game in a group. I likely wouldn't even watch any football games or sporting events for that matter. I pay for cable even. I just don't watch much sports unless its in a group setting. However, I've also paid for countless number of tickets and goods for sporting events etc over the years because I was brought into sports via a group at church.
You can effectively argue that the NFL is essentially losing future customers by not choosing to support alternatives for people to gather.
It's likely a projector, something which most churches nowdays use in the sanctuary and other buildings. It's a great way to show art, photos, music, hymns, videos in accordance with practicing faith. Showing football was likely a way to get more people to come out to the church so they can see what the staff are like etc. It's hardly an abuse of funds.
I don't think the NFL rights should technically apply here since its in a place where people aren't going to exacly be comftorable sitting down for the entire 3 hours of the game and it's not something I'd consider a viable alternative of going to the game. Maybe a good clean way of watching the game in comparison to a sports bar. But, anyone who has spent time sitting in a church pew knows what I'm talking about.
Agreed, I was at a friends dorm the other day installing a router. She has Vista on her computer 2gb of ram and a blazing fast core two duo. It still ran slower than my old Athlon 2800 with windows XP. I've installed once or twice. But, I just like the interface of XP better. Vista just isn't friendly enough for me.
I disagree, I believe that they are learning from thier mistakes and the realization that Apple is taking away thier market share very quickly has been a swift kick in the pants to get the latest release out.
If the public officials have nothing to hide then we should be able to read their email too. A checks and balances sort of thing. Lets give the press full access to all public official emails along with it.
I don't like the idea of using Nuclear because you can't reproduce the fuel in any other form. Unlike diesel which gets the equivalent of bio diesel. Or Even Gas engines which can be converted to use other fuels. The earth's core is according to some of latest theories a giant nuclear reactor. So the idea of using a mineral that's currently used to keep the earth's core moving and warm doesn't sound like a good idea to me.. I think we'd be bettter off looking at other long-term sources of energy.
Nuclear energy is not a self sustaining energy because we can't reproduce the fuel. Give us something we can reproduce the fuel for.
Who am I blaming???
I'm offering suggestions to save lives. Something, cameras aren't doing. Give me more police officers on the roads instead of more cameras. Give me better road engineering.
The ultimate solution is one that lets you pull up the original from the archive in less than a day and be editable.
You don't have to make a single large file out of the movie when you put it on disc. You can spread it out over serveral discs quite easily. Every operating system since dos supports this. No big deal.
Also, the reason the file storage is so huge is the number of cuts they use. The 30 plus extra renders etc. All that plus the movie probably consumes a terabyte of space. Thats the equivalent of roughly 100 Dual layer discs or more. So that kinda of rules out DVD as a storage medium anyways.
BR, and HD-DVD make a better storage option overall. But I'd use them as an onsite backup more than anything else.
The other direction you can use is half a dozen Data tapes and stuff them in a Nitrogen filled safe. Companies have used it for years with no major issues.
It's not like the data storage is really prohibitive unless you need same day access to it. Thats where the costs start to really climb.
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Some well written code... Just might go so fast that the space time continuim bends to accomodate a new class of ultimate power in the universe. ;) Unfortunatly, you aren't going to find a whole lot of that in Vista. =P
Actually, if we start mining uranium, people are going to think, cheap energy all over again. Then its only going to get mined even faster than we used oil. Then, In less than 100 years we will have found a way to use most of it up, where will we be then?
We are better off trying other sources of energy that can be reproduced.
If we could find a way to do fusion with helium we'd be set.
Nuclear power is limited. We can't reproduce uranium. Uranium is what is naturally used to heat up the earth's core through fission and geologic subduction we'd be burning the candle at the other end. We'd be better off using oil.. Because with oil and fuel engines we can grow our fuel and not even have to replace the engine, just tune it differently.
It's more of a local contract thing. In order to build the plant they had to say they'd sell everything the locals needed in exchange for building the plant. Then, its the power brokers who make the fortune selling it across the US.
In San Francisco PG&E could easily get another MW by bumping up the incentives for solar power in the local area affected. Incentives should be market driven. Basically if you live in an area where there are a lot of companies looking to use up more power. Instead of moving in more high power lines they simply set higher incentives for more Solar cells to increase the available capacity in the specific cities that they request power. Lot of times the base load during the evening/night is more than enough to accomodate all the extra power requirements that a business would request.
It's a win-win for PG&E because they get the bigger customer and they get the solar power at a cheaper rate than buying it from elsewhere.
I think it's very forward thinking of NVidia to have incorporated the ability to do this for nearly a year. I'd say its almost game changing.
I think a better solution would be to carry that algae stuff they are testing on coal power plants now and use it in our vehicles. Since fuel cells produce the two primary ingredients anyways. Water, and CO2.
Basicall, we'd be producing biodiesel while we drive. We'd get a tax credit in return for our continued donations of carbon growing algae. Granted this wouldn't pull out all the carbon we produce. But it might come close enough to pay for itself or damn close to carbon nuetral.
The best flourescent out there gets roughly 70 lumens per watt. LED's have already passed the 100 lumens per watt barrier.
What happens if I sand off my finger prints before I leave the country. Or get superglue all over my hands. I always thought of doing this before I ever left the country so they couldn't take any prints. Seems painful, but I like the idea of being unprintable.
Think about it this way. We need fuel consumption to pay fuel taxes. If we get more effecient, then we have lower tax revenues and the politicians will be forced to get it from somewhere else. Our economy is dependent on cheap oil because cheap oil pays taxes. More taxes give the government more power.
Actually, I think I'm right, because today's consumer is about 10 times better educated than the consumer at the time of Betamax vs VHS. Plus, its all about the marketing. Consumers these days know or have a good idea of what DRM is all about. Many of them do not like it. All it would take is an outside vendor offering a product without the DRM installed in it. Then, they could market it against the likes of intel or AMD. Then, you'd see salespeople, technical people, students, etc all working against the new standard because they would no longer recommend the product that doesn't work.
Then, no one will buy a new CPU. Intel and AMD aren't stupid. they know the consumer will run if they add this crap to thier products.
Personally, I might buy a new CPU, but I'd never use it for music. If they suddenly required that I had to have a new CPU to play or download new music then I'd just stop buying music and just listen to the classics I do have and only buy the independent artists out there who don't use the DRM like I do now. I'm not alone in my practice. I personally know a half-dozen people who follow the same practice.
I think that the artists should get 50 percent of all settlements... The RIAA of course would balk at this. But it goes with thier primary arguement that its robbing the musician of hard earned money. If artists got half of all settlements they'd be more likely to help the RIAA catch people.
If you think about it long-term.
If you are a terrorist and you want to cause mass chaos. How would you do it?
You'd most likely want to create some form of confusion or distraction before hitting your main target.
I'd think this a precursor to a bigger plot. If I was thinking along these lines I'd be cutting them and seeing what the end results are. If I could label and see which ones do what and invoke certain responses then I'd wait before doing it again. The next time I'd probably create something that acted via a timer. This way I could attack, destroy communications, then attack again creating chaos and confusion. Through a very specific set time.
However, the counter arguement here is that anything they can do to the LAN cables we could easily counter-act with wireless transmission as Satellites are more than capable of carrying the necessary data for communication. This pretty much only isolates the European world from the internet, which isn't going to do much on the grand scheme of things.
The Plot is probably thicker but not much by my guess. Unless the NSA is using the downtime to break the cable elsewhere and run off thier own data spying cable via the lines. I doubt it..
Your guess is incorrect...
Churches still seem to cling on this old wood with its shiny new varnish and try ot make it better with pads. But at the end of the day, its still a Pew.
Actually many churches do have movie nights, Concert/band nights, game nights. It's all part of the church community gathering. Not all of it has to be for prayer. A lot of it really is just giving people a reason to gather in a no pressure environment so they can talk, pray, learn, etc.
It's really not much different than an ice cream social. Would you rather they go door to door and bother you?? How are they getting a free Ride? You could argue that sports Bars likewise get a free ride.. Why not make a clean alternative where you can still enjoy the game without all the beer, drugs, sex, etc that you'd find in a typical sports bar?
"The flip side marketing effect"
If I didn't have the alternative of going to a church to watch the game in a group. I likely wouldn't even watch any football games or sporting events for that matter. I pay for cable even. I just don't watch much sports unless its in a group setting. However, I've also paid for countless number of tickets and goods for sporting events etc over the years because I was brought into sports via a group at church. You can effectively argue that the NFL is essentially losing future customers by not choosing to support alternatives for people to gather.
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Actually many churches do have movie nights, Concert/band nights, game nights. It's all part of the church community gathering. Not all of it has to be for prayer. A lot of it really is just giving people a reason to gather in a no pressure environment so they can talk, pray, learn, etc. It's really not much different than an ice cream social. Would you rather they go door to door and bother you?? How are they getting a free Ride? You could argue that sports Bars likewise get a free ride.. Why not make a clean alternative where you can still enjoy the game without all the beer, drugs, sex, etc that you'd find in a typical sports bar? "The flip side marketing effect" If I didn't have the alternative of going to a church to watch the game in a group. I likely wouldn't even watch any football games or sporting events for that matter. I pay for cable even. I just don't watch much sports unless its in a group setting. However, I've also paid for countless number of tickets and goods for sporting events etc over the years because I was brought into sports via a group at church. You can effectively argue that the NFL is essentially losing future customers by not choosing to support alternatives for people to gather.
It's likely a projector, something which most churches nowdays use in the sanctuary and other buildings. It's a great way to show art, photos, music, hymns, videos in accordance with practicing faith. Showing football was likely a way to get more people to come out to the church so they can see what the staff are like etc. It's hardly an abuse of funds. I don't think the NFL rights should technically apply here since its in a place where people aren't going to exacly be comftorable sitting down for the entire 3 hours of the game and it's not something I'd consider a viable alternative of going to the game. Maybe a good clean way of watching the game in comparison to a sports bar. But, anyone who has spent time sitting in a church pew knows what I'm talking about.
Agreed, I was at a friends dorm the other day installing a router. She has Vista on her computer 2gb of ram and a blazing fast core two duo. It still ran slower than my old Athlon 2800 with windows XP. I've installed once or twice. But, I just like the interface of XP better. Vista just isn't friendly enough for me.
I disagree, I believe that they are learning from thier mistakes and the realization that Apple is taking away thier market share very quickly has been a swift kick in the pants to get the latest release out.
If the public officials have nothing to hide then we should be able to read their email too. A checks and balances sort of thing. Lets give the press full access to all public official emails along with it.
I don't like the idea of using Nuclear because you can't reproduce the fuel in any other form. Unlike diesel which gets the equivalent of bio diesel. Or Even Gas engines which can be converted to use other fuels. The earth's core is according to some of latest theories a giant nuclear reactor. So the idea of using a mineral that's currently used to keep the earth's core moving and warm doesn't sound like a good idea to me.. I think we'd be bettter off looking at other long-term sources of energy. Nuclear energy is not a self sustaining energy because we can't reproduce the fuel. Give us something we can reproduce the fuel for.
Only if you drive a domestic. ;)
Who am I blaming??? I'm offering suggestions to save lives. Something, cameras aren't doing. Give me more police officers on the roads instead of more cameras. Give me better road engineering.
The ultimate solution is one that lets you pull up the original from the archive in less than a day and be editable. You don't have to make a single large file out of the movie when you put it on disc. You can spread it out over serveral discs quite easily. Every operating system since dos supports this. No big deal. Also, the reason the file storage is so huge is the number of cuts they use. The 30 plus extra renders etc. All that plus the movie probably consumes a terabyte of space. Thats the equivalent of roughly 100 Dual layer discs or more. So that kinda of rules out DVD as a storage medium anyways. BR, and HD-DVD make a better storage option overall. But I'd use them as an onsite backup more than anything else. The other direction you can use is half a dozen Data tapes and stuff them in a Nitrogen filled safe. Companies have used it for years with no major issues. It's not like the data storage is really prohibitive unless you need same day access to it. Thats where the costs start to really climb.