Thsoe are good for the lazy people who never organize their menues. They'll have 50 entries under start/programs, so only the most common ones are displayed.
For the rest of us, who subcategorize everything, those arrows get annoying really quickly.
OR, bid $10000 on the auction and don't pay it. You know his credit card automatically gets billed a percentage of the closing price. You know that right?
You're still free to do whatever you want with it. There's no law forbidding you from overclocking. AMD just exercised their right to add whatever THEY want to their cpus, which is overclock protection.
BTW, if it was easy to overclock, AMD would have to raise their prices. People would buy lower marked cpus, but AMD still has to cover its costs.
It also complicates support for everyone involved if a computer starts randomly crashing because a user overclocked. How would you like to be the tech guy on the other end when some guy thinks YOUR software is crashing his computer when in reality it is his overclocked cpu?
It would be more efficient to code them the normal way in binary. For example: 000=700, 001=750, 010=800, 011 = 850.
Here's the catch. For each bit, you have two fuses. You always blow one fuse. If the first fuse is blown, the bit is 1. If the second fuse is blown, the bit is 0. If they're both blown, that's invalid, and the chip shouldn't operate.
The bandwidth of amateur radio frequencies is a lot more limited than available online storage space.
Why don't you implement a search engine where you have to pass an internet competancy test in order to index your page?
BTW, do driving licenses do anything to prevent unsafe driving, driving while talking on cell phone, DUI etc? No! there are plenty of unqualified drivers out there because licensing doesn't do shit.
why bother with a flywheel? Everything could be solid state. Charge up a huge capacitor instead.
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We can be reactive and wait for a qualification-free self-taught programmer to write some code that kills someone and then have pointless regulations forced on us by legislators without a clue, or we can be proactive and regulate ourselves in a rational fashion.
Software is really out of control these days. The last time Windows crashed, my computer automatically rebooted. This wouldn't have been so dangerous, but the cup holder automatically retracted when the computer came back on, spilling my drink all over the place! I think both the computer and software should have been certified by a board of professionals so I know it's safe. Imagine what could have happened if I had hydrocholoric acid in the cup!
I think a license should be required to walk on the sidewalk. I'm afraid to go outside, someone's going to get knocked over one of these days! Then it will be too late.
Apple has again and again changed the way computers are used in the last 15 years (unlike a certain other software giant whose idea of 'innovation' is "let's leave somebody else develop something good, then we buy them out and claim it was ours").
What are you talking about? AOL is not a software giant!
I don't understand how the region coding is supposed to protect against what they don't want anyway. After all, if I live outside the US and buy a dvd palyer, it won't be coded for my region, it wil be blank, then I can only change the region a limited number of times.
So I could own a U.S. dvd player anywhere in the world.
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Hours of *work*? I enjoy playing The Sims, but I, like most people do other things as well.
It's too bad that SimLife was already taken. They could have named the product that. SimLives for people w/o real lives.
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Hey, I just gave a teletubby to some kid. He uses the triangle on the doll's head as a can-opener for beer bottles. Underage drinking is illegal, so now I'm writing this from jail because I gave him the tool, and teletubbies are being taken off the market (thank god) because they are used by criminals.
Our lawyers tried to explain that the intended purpose of the teletubby was to hug and play with, but then it was pointed out that there is no conceivable legitimate purpose for the can-opener on the doll's head.
Not only was I aiding and abetting underage drinking, but that beer had to come from somewhere. After months of investigation, they could never track down the perp who sold the kid the beer, but if I had never supplied the kid with illegal materials, the sale would never have occurred (beyond a reasonable doubt). So I'm doing time for aiding and abetting selling alcohol to a minor as well.
I hope they never discover that the kid I gave the gameboy to for Xmas used it to bash his friend on the head and fractured his skull.
Trouble is, not voting republican/democrat is a waste of a vote. My ideals don't agree completely with republicans, but I'd much rather have them than democrats, so I vote republican.
what we need is to overhaul the voting system. Vote go, or no-go on each candidate. Problem is, why would those with power to implement such a change (congress) implement such a system? They (both republicans and democrats) got elected under the undemocratic vote-once system, why would they want change?
I disagree. It only takes a few hours to learn how to operate a rifle, just as it only takes a few hours to learn how to swing a sword. To be proficient with any weapon is a more difficult.
The point was that the electronics suck right now, but they'll improve and we'll want to be proficient at utilizing them effectively when the time comes. It takes a lot longer to integrate them into a unit as a whole, with appropriate tacticts than to train an individual soldier to use his equipment.
I think we all agree that if you take the best techology today and try to create a wired soldier, you're going to end up with an unreliable, inpractical mess. I'm sure the top brass knows this too, they have to be smart and practical to get to where they are.
So why the hell are we burning all this money on it for? Practice. One day, perhaps around 2030 or so, it may be practicle. Compare what we have know with what we had 30 years ago. Then extrapolate that 30 years in the future. Much Smaller, more useful, more reliable, etc etc.
When that day comes (if it comes - history doesn't guarantee the future), do we want to start from scratch wiring our armed forces? No, we want to have been testing and playing with the technology for 30 years, working out the kinks.
So, it would be foolish for our units to use this stuff in a real world combat enviroment (or at least to rely on it), but we need the experience, so one day the transition will be less painful. (or would you rather we ignore it, stick to our m16s and shovels, and let China perfect it first?)
Night vision must have seemed like a useless toy when it was first proposed, but it is a decisive tool. What about when firearms were first invented? We were stuck with these heavy impracticle muskets for a very long time. I'm sure people said "These are stupid, I'll just cut him open while he's reloading. It relies on gunpowder, you can't even get them wet! I'll equip my army with swords and longbows, thank you very much."
Don't forget about airplanes! impracticle as all hell in 1903, extremely important in WWI less than 20 years later!
So even though they seem impracticle today, give these emerging technologies a chance. Give our military decision makers some credit too, they're smarter than you think.
If 90% of rappers are African American, it does NOT mean that 90% of African Americans are rappers.
Even if ALL rappers are African American, which you are implying, and which IS a racist generalization...then the original post was still only referring to a small percentage of that group which is a small percentage of the population.
(And by "the population", I suppose you mean America, because America represents the whole world.)
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That was my point. They're good, even though power users find them annoying.
Thsoe are good for the lazy people who never organize their menues. They'll have 50 entries under start/programs, so only the most common ones are displayed.
For the rest of us, who subcategorize everything, those arrows get annoying really quickly.
Timmy: Dad, why do you know what that is?
Timmy: I meant what is 'fitting'? Are these pants too baggy?
OR, bid $10000 on the auction and don't pay it. You know his credit card automatically gets billed a percentage of the closing price. You know that right?
You're still free to do whatever you want with it. There's no law forbidding you from overclocking. AMD just exercised their right to add whatever THEY want to their cpus, which is overclock protection.
BTW, if it was easy to overclock, AMD would have to raise their prices. People would buy lower marked cpus, but AMD still has to cover its costs.
It also complicates support for everyone involved if a computer starts randomly crashing because a user overclocked. How would you like to be the tech guy on the other end when some guy thinks YOUR software is crashing his computer when in reality it is his overclocked cpu?
It would be more efficient to code them the normal way in binary. For example: 000=700, 001=750, 010=800, 011 = 850.
Here's the catch. For each bit, you have two fuses. You always blow one fuse. If the first fuse is blown, the bit is 1. If the second fuse is blown, the bit is 0. If they're both blown, that's invalid, and the chip shouldn't operate.
The bandwidth of amateur radio frequencies is a lot more limited than available online storage space.
Why don't you implement a search engine where you have to pass an internet competancy test in order to index your page?
BTW, do driving licenses do anything to prevent unsafe driving, driving while talking on cell phone, DUI etc? No! there are plenty of unqualified drivers out there because licensing doesn't do shit.
Regulation sucks. remember that.
HAHA moderate this up!
why bother with a flywheel? Everything could be solid state. Charge up a huge capacitor instead.
We can be reactive and wait for a qualification-free self-taught programmer to write some code that kills someone and then have pointless regulations forced on us by legislators without a clue, or we can be proactive and regulate ourselves in a rational fashion.
Software is really out of control these days. The last time Windows crashed, my computer automatically rebooted. This wouldn't have been so dangerous, but the cup holder automatically retracted when the computer came back on, spilling my drink all over the place! I think both the computer and software should have been certified by a board of professionals so I know it's safe. Imagine what could have happened if I had hydrocholoric acid in the cup!
I think a license should be required to walk on the sidewalk. I'm afraid to go outside, someone's going to get knocked over one of these days! Then it will be too late.
What are you talking about? AOL is not a software giant!
Real numbers are continuous. So, for any two numbers to be distinct, there always exists some number in between them.
You cannot describe a number between 0 and 0.00...01 so they must be the same number.
They're called, oddly enough, TAPE DRIVES!
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I don't understand how the region coding is supposed to protect against what they don't want anyway. After all, if I live outside the US and buy a dvd palyer, it won't be coded for my region, it wil be blank, then I can only change the region a limited number of times.
So I could own a U.S. dvd player anywhere in the world.
Hours of *work*? I enjoy playing The Sims, but I, like most people do other things as well.
It's too bad that SimLife was already taken. They could have named the product that. SimLives for people w/o real lives.
not EVERYONE has a phone. :)
I think you're a dirty communist.
The average consumer likes his computer to look like he got it at ToysRus.
Personally, I think the designers of TCP/IP should be sued for aiding/abetting.
hehe. I like that constructive use for everything. I'll write the following on my pistol permit application.
Why do you need a handgun?
I want to melt it down, and use the material to make plates which I'll use to serve free food to poor people.
Hey, I just gave a teletubby to some kid. He uses the triangle on the doll's head as a can-opener for beer bottles. Underage drinking is illegal, so now I'm writing this from jail because I gave him the tool, and teletubbies are being taken off the market (thank god) because they are used by criminals.
Our lawyers tried to explain that the intended purpose of the teletubby was to hug and play with, but then it was pointed out that there is no conceivable legitimate purpose for the can-opener on the doll's head.
Not only was I aiding and abetting underage drinking, but that beer had to come from somewhere. After months of investigation, they could never track down the perp who sold the kid the beer, but if I had never supplied the kid with illegal materials, the sale would never have occurred (beyond a reasonable doubt). So I'm doing time for aiding and abetting selling alcohol to a minor as well.
I hope they never discover that the kid I gave the gameboy to for Xmas used it to bash his friend on the head and fractured his skull.
Trouble is, not voting republican/democrat is a waste of a vote. My ideals don't agree completely with republicans, but I'd much rather have them than democrats, so I vote republican.
what we need is to overhaul the voting system. Vote go, or no-go on each candidate. Problem is, why would those with power to implement such a change (congress) implement such a system? They (both republicans and democrats) got elected under the undemocratic vote-once system, why would they want change?
I disagree. It only takes a few hours to learn how to operate a rifle, just as it only takes a few hours to learn how to swing a sword. To be proficient with any weapon is a more difficult.
The point was that the electronics suck right now, but they'll improve and we'll want to be proficient at utilizing them effectively when the time comes. It takes a lot longer to integrate them into a unit as a whole, with appropriate tacticts than to train an individual soldier to use his equipment.
I think we all agree that if you take the best techology today and try to create a wired soldier, you're going to end up with an unreliable, inpractical mess. I'm sure the top brass knows this too, they have to be smart and practical to get to where they are.
So why the hell are we burning all this money on it for? Practice. One day, perhaps around 2030 or so, it may be practicle. Compare what we have know with what we had 30 years ago. Then extrapolate that 30 years in the future. Much Smaller, more useful, more reliable, etc etc.
When that day comes (if it comes - history doesn't guarantee the future), do we want to start from scratch wiring our armed forces? No, we want to have been testing and playing with the technology for 30 years, working out the kinks.
So, it would be foolish for our units to use this stuff in a real world combat enviroment (or at least to rely on it), but we need the experience, so one day the transition will be less painful. (or would you rather we ignore it, stick to our m16s and shovels, and let China perfect it first?)
Night vision must have seemed like a useless toy when it was first proposed, but it is a decisive tool.
What about when firearms were first invented? We were stuck with these heavy impracticle muskets for a very long time. I'm sure people said "These are stupid, I'll just cut him open while he's reloading. It relies on gunpowder, you can't even get them wet! I'll equip my army with swords and longbows, thank you very much."
Don't forget about airplanes! impracticle as all hell in 1903, extremely important in WWI less than 20 years later!
So even though they seem impracticle today, give these emerging technologies a chance. Give our military decision makers some credit too, they're smarter than you think.
If 90% of rappers are African American, it does NOT mean that 90% of African Americans are rappers.
Even if ALL rappers are African American, which you are implying, and which IS a racist generalization...then the original post was still only referring to a small percentage of that group which is a small percentage of the population.
(And by "the population", I suppose you mean America, because America represents the whole world.)