Historical records in many countries are written in cursive, and not just English wring ones. Only a complete idiot would want to sever children from their past.
Or a government wanting more control over information.
There's a pretty big history of the printing press and literacy fueling social change.
Not sure what kind of PC you have going on, but if it looks like this your wife it right.
Don't have a dedicated living room "gaming PC". Build a new system -- build an HTPC that has gaming-capable hardware.
- Make sure the case fits in with a living room setting. Preferably a horizontal or cube-shape. Not a tower. Look at Silverstone's stuff.
- You can have a large case if you need it -- as long as you can get it to fit with with existing home entertainment components.
- Reduce the size if possible MiniITX or MicroATX at the largest.
- ONE graphics card. No SLI/Crossfire. Time to let that go. The shorter the length the better, for helping control the overall system size.
- NO LED FANS.
- Get a case that is large enough for you needs, but as small as possible and still fit the components.
- Don't buy a large case because you have multiple hard drives for content. Move that shit to a NAS somewhere else in the house.
I have placed it in another room and run HDMI and USB cables, but the propagation delay caused horrible tearing and lag when playing games
Eh? This sounds more like crappy cables, than anything else.
I especially like the part right after where he asks about replacing the cables with wireless to solve this.
I like how it's been less than 10 days and already the editors did not think to link to the Barbie: Computer Engineer story, where she only thinks up a design and then has to go to the boys to get the coding done.
Ironic the fictional land of Barbie, with a supposedly positive message for girls about careers in tech, is more misogynistic than the reality it seeks to change.
I know you're making that out like it's a bad thing, but I actually think it's a good strategy to hold out as long as you can, because the more time passes, the more likely technology will catch up and make clean up slightly less difficult.
That is a huge ass assumption.
You realize thinking like this is exactly why we have the environmental issues we do today? No one wanting to make the tough choices (back when the problems were first discovered), let's keep going as we are and in the future I'm sure we'll come up with a solution. ("of course, if we haven't I'll be pushing up daisies anyway," they were thinking back then).
Back in the '60s folks through by the turn of the millennium we'd all be driving flying cars and living on other planets. That didn't happen, not even close. A hopeful dream by futurists and sci-fi writers. Staking the future of the environment on things that haven't been developed isn't any better. The companies that run the plants could have been putting money away, into a trust fund-like arrangement to pay the plant's decommissioning and demolition costs, but that would cut into the profits every quarter. Better to leave it all for "the next management team" to deal with. Bonus points if you can make it a God-awful mess and force the federal government to come in and take over the whole thing! Then the tax payers get to pay for the cleanup while we keep all the profits from over the decades!
MP4 isn't made to carry nearly as large a variety of audio formats, most notably modem HD audio formats. Or subpicture-based subtitle formats, or subtitles that use styling/typefaces. I'm also not sure if 10-bit h264 is supported as a video format.
Keep in mind that just because you've seen a file of type.mp4 playing with x features doesn't mean that container format actually supports it.
They have eight new reactors being built that are set to be completed all within the next two years. Probably plans for more on the way. It's a very aggressive strategy, and I'd imagine after the new ones are online the old ones are going to be decommissioned.
Maybe, maybe not. The problem with nuclear reactors is they're like eating at a fancy restaurant. Lots of merriness until you decide the meal's over. Then the bill comes. Not shutting down the old reactors means not having to deal with the humungous costs to decommissioning them, dismantling the plant, paying for long-term storage of some highly radioactive parts that are no longer generating revenue, etc.
There's a reason you keep reading about the NRC granting license extensions to 50+ year old reactors in the U.S. The corporate heads of those power companies all want to cruise into retirement without having to deal with the clean-up cost fallout.
*golfclap*
The access is unlimited, what is limited are parts of the Internet.
No, that's part of the whole "safe harbor" thing. ISPs are not liable because they're job is simply to deliver the connection to the Internet. If they start blocking access to sites for this reason or that reason, then people are going to start holding them responsible when they don't block something else they don't like.
They can just pass new laws retroactively making the practice legal in the instances where it involved national security, so the corporations that cooperated will no longer be on the hook. Worked for the USA.
They might be able to get a law retroactively passed in the UK but what do you think GCHQ can do to scare the EU into submitting to its will? This is important because even if the UK gov't passed such a law making things nice and legal in the UK the practice would still fall foul of EU legislation.
Other EU countries will fall in line in support of the motion because:
1) They don't want to appear soft on terrorism.
2) They want to do the same thing to their own citizens.
Blocking access to websites when I paid for unlimited access to the Internet?
Sounds like a clear case of fraud.
So Vodafone owes the compensation to the people spied on, particular the Europeans where we have the right to privacy and this is illegal. You can't legally be paid to break laws.
They can just pass new laws retroactively making the practice legal in the instances where it involved national security, so the corporations that cooperated will no longer be on the hook. Worked for the USA.
Some more URLs I have in my collection (haven't checked some of these in awhile, though):
UPS tracking (after trigger enter your tracking number)
US Postal Service Tracking (after trigger enter your tracking number)
YouTube Video Search
E.gg Timer (type the length of the countdown in plain text after your trigger -- eg: "5 minutes" to make the timer run for five minutes, "2 hours 3 minutes" for two hours and three minutes, ect. You can even go do other browsing and background the tab, it will jump to the front when it goes off.
IMDB Search
Rotten Tomatoes
Google Translate (to English) -- just paste the URL of the foreign site after your trigger.
ZXing QR Code decoder -- paste a image URL after the trigger.
DownForEveryoneOrJustMe website check
NewEgg Product Search
FreshPorts Search
For sites without their own searches, you can always set up a Google search restricted to the site with "site%3Adomainofsite.tld+%s" as the string.
Once you have all the major search engines set up there's really no reason to waste toolbar space on Firefox with the actual Search Bar anymore.
This is a ZDNet article. Their average reader doesn't have the attention span to remember back that far.
No, you're both wrong.
Just set up Quick Searches, a feature available in Firefox since, I think, version 2, and then search from virtually any site you want to direct from the address bar. It only takes a couple minutes to set up each search template, and it doesn't require you to wait for a company/developer to "support" the site you want to search through.
You can even (by parsing the URL when you first set it up) add default stipulations to a search. For example I type "g foo" in the address bar and I get a Google search for foo but with -buy -shop and a couple other terms added on... which is very effective at filtering irrelevant advertising/e-commerce links out of my results. It makes my search results not quite as useful as the old original Google when they were getting off the ground, but certainly better than the SEO-shat on info I get from many search engines now.
Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun.
