For shame. We all know for a fact that every single person who downloads something and keeps it available on P2P has uploaded it to 10,000 other people. Therefore, every single such person has in fact directly distributed this unauthorized material 10,000 times, which clearly indicates a fine of 10,000 times the actual value of the item is not excessive. Ok, I know some math nazi is going to come along and try to prove this wrong, so we'll just cut that off before it starts by pointing out that everyone always downloads the same illegal download 10,000 times so the math actually does work out.
Try spending a day at work on a Vista machine. You'll see what we're talking about.
I've used Vista every day at work for almost 4 months now. And slowly but surely it's convincing me it's ready for my home machines as well. I haven't given in yet, but I'm guessing I will soon now.
Bit torrent starts to upload literally as soon as you have data that any other peer needs. It seems to me like new peers are given some data ASAP for that very reason. And then of course, as soon as you have some data to upload, another peer/seed is relieved from uploading that particular data, giving it more upload cap to send you more data, etc. As long as people aren't too stingy with their upload it works pretty well.
I tried doing it once, only to discover that the nasty article just contradicted everything in the summary and the comments. NEVER RTFA, those things are lying pieces of shit.
If we didn't change the clocks then supposedly you'll use more energy by turning on lights when it's dark out, because it's 7am and you have to get ready for work. You also don't have to spend any additional effort darkening your room to go to sleep at night.
You kinda got that backwards. DST gets you up an hour earlier in the morning during the summer, so you'd actually be more likely to have to turn on the lights in the morning. The original concept behind DST was so people don't waste as many candles after work. Now though, most people use the lights in the house whether it's dark outside or not, and using the lights an extra hour more or less every day doesn't add up to nearly as much as the cost of using extra candles back in the day. Also, as a study showed a while back, the lower cost in lighting is now being outweighed by higher costs in cooling, because most people who come home from work in the summer don't want to mess around outside, and so instead of getting home when the house is already cooler (because it's later in the day) they come home when it's still hot and crank up the AC.
So literally the only people who still benefit from DST are the ones who have some outdoor hobby they want to do after work (not before) that has to be done in areas that aren't lit up by plenty of lighting. And there's not very many of those hobbies and areas left. Even most golf courses nowadays are lit up enough to finish your game after dark. Really, the only hobbies that are left that still benefit from DST can be just as easily done before work as after. So we all pay the price in energy bills, mandatory jet lag, and the inconvenience of changing clocks. Just so a very small percentage of people can do their little hobbies after work instead of before. Yup, sounds like a great trade.
It always amuses me that the people who are anti changing the clocks say that the people who like it can just "get up earlier". The people who don't like it could just "get up later".
Now you're just being stupid. If we only worked a few hours in the middle of the day, you'd be absolutely right. For most people though the work day starts as soon as they get up. So sure, show me this place where I can go work and they don't care if I just decide to come in to work an hour later every morning during DST. People like you don't amuse me. But you do amaze me at how stupid and selfish you are about this issue. Somehow you think it makes sense to make everyone change clocks twice a year and get up an hour earlier during the summer, just so you can do your little personal hobbies after work instead of before.
And don't kid yourself, that's the only thing DST does now. And even for outdoor activities, the ones that actually need daylight are now so few and far between, keeping DST around is irresponsible and stupid.
No, this is wrong. The total hours of daylight don't change but the usable hours do.
I get up for work around 6am usually. For most of the year it is dark. For much of the rest the sun is just up. For just a couple of months in the year the sun is up early enough that I could use the daylight in the morning and then be back in the house at 6am to get ready for work.
At the end of the day it's similar - except that this time I can use the daylight in the evening until it's too dark. Only then do I have to go in and get cleaned up etc.
No one is stopping you from getting up earlier and going to bed earlier, regardless of DST. You can go to bed as soon as you get off work if you want, and then get up as soon as you've had enough sleep. DST giving anyone more 'usable' daylight is a myth.
If all you want to do outside is sit and read a book then it probably doesn't make much difference (although it's usually much warmer in the evening when the sun is setting than it is in the morning when the sun is rising.)
But I want to be out cycling, working in the garden etc.
So I want it dark in the morning when I get up and go to work because that is dead time. And I want it light in the evenings because I can utilize all the hours of light.
Yeah, see I can do that too.
If all you want to do after work is piddle around by yourself doing things like cycling, working in the garden, etc. then sure you'll like the extra daylight in the evening.
But I want to be out late in the evening hanging out with friends, having a good time, etc.
So I want to sleep in late in the mornings and have it already be daylight when I get up and go to work, because all the best social activities happen after it's already dark out in the evening. And getting up an hour earlier just sucks any way you look at it, if you don't happen to be a morning person.
See, what you bring up is only personal preference. It's nothing more than a "what I want" vs. "what you want". And guess what, what I want is to not have to get up an extra hour early so all 200 of you in the world who want extra time to cycle or garden an extra hour can do it after work instead of before. And what I want means no one has to fuck around with clocks twice a year or deal with stupid mandatory jet lag twice a year.
So get over yourself. If you want to cycle or garden, get your ass out of bed an hour early and do it before you go to work, and don't pretend like you're doing anyone else any favors by making everyone get up an hour early for no reason.
DST needs to die. It out-lived its usefulness about 90 years ago.
Right now, I see the idiodicy of DST. You don't actually get more daylight, we just fool you into thinking you do.
Too bad most people aren't that smart.
All DST does is change what time your clock shows. It doesn't change what time it really is, and it doesn't change what time your body thinks it is. And it for damned sure doesn't give anyone more fucking daylight.
You're actually wrong. Until they changed it, the law was Eastern time with no DST. But several counties close to big cities in other states (namely Chicago and Cincinnati) defied this law for obvious reasons. And the state just kind of turned a blind eye, for equally obvious reasons. And yes, I grew up in Indiana as well and thoroughly despise DST. It needs to go the way of the dodo, seeing as how it's a lot more useless now than... well, pretty much anything, ever.
I'm not a biker (yet), but I have to agree with a lot of the posts here. The biggest problem is people just don't pay attention. I'll be the first to admit, I push the limits a lot in my car, but I've never had a problem seeing either type of cyclist on the road. The only time there's any visual difficulty at all is when it's dark and one headlamp/tail-lamp is a bit difficult to use as a point of reference for distance. But that's never proved to be a big problem. I've also had other drivers pull out right in front of my car, and I always drive with my headlights on. There was one time it was nearly dark and some moron pulled out and did a left turn right in front of me, to the point I pretty much came to a complete stop to avoid him. How do you not see a car bearing down on you after dark with the headlights on? But I guess I'm doing alright with defensive driving, since the only accidents I've ever had (caused by me or otherwise) were when I was a young kid and caused by misjudging my vehicle's capabilities in the rain.
This does reinforce for me though the importance of the conscious effort I always make when behind a biker to leave even more distance than I normally would following someone, so they know I see them.
I'm pretty sure this list is about mods that are still mods, and have not evolved to stand-alone games. I've never played Ricochet, but both Counter-Strike and Team Fortress are now full-fledged retail games and therefore no longer qualify as mods.
Also, they give due credit to Counter-Strike on the first page.
Yes, but that's if you're looking for a job as things are now. If the economy really does take that big of a dump and so many people are unemployed, tech jobs are gonna be some of the first to dry up. "Looking for a job" will not include all that much resume sending and waiting. It'll be more of looking for a job anywhere you can think and doing any kind of odd job you can find to make a buck. Hopefully we won't get to that point, but right now we're on very similar path to where we were about 80 years ago.
You are of course falling for the common fallacy that any free time that a person has can be magically converted into gold as if they had some sort of Philosophers stone. That isn't necessarily the case. Infact, it will probably be MORE likely rather than less likely that people have free time on their hands in the near future.
And most people will be using that 'free time' to look for a job.
Indeed. Despite all the hours I've played (and enjoyed) in MMOs, I have to say the most fun gaming hours I've ever had were multiplayer Tetris on the original Gameboy and multiplayer GoldenEye on the N64. Not far behind are games like split-screen Madden, Mario Party, etc. And of course small LAN parties featuring games like UT, RA2, and AOE2. I'll give up a great many other activities for many of the above, even now. Real life interaction is just something that cannot be replaced by the internet, no matter how hard you try.
I'm inclined to agree with you. Also worthy of note is that most of the other drives in the test are actually more expensive, despite having less space. And guess what, most of the ones on the test that come in at a lower price are also ones that are outperformed by the new drive on virtually every test. So yes please, I'll take 50% more space for better read speeds and less money, not to mention a 5-year warranty. I've purchased Seagate drives exclusively for about 4 years now, and have yet to have one fail on me. Also worked at a computer service/build for a year recently where we used Seagate drives exclusively, and saw maybe as high as a 1% failure rate on new drives.
Wait a minute... so he put it in there to dry out, left the door wide open and his wife put it on preheat without looking inside?? One of them's an idiot.
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I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not but...
You must be new here.
For shame. We all know for a fact that every single person who downloads something and keeps it available on P2P has uploaded it to 10,000 other people. Therefore, every single such person has in fact directly distributed this unauthorized material 10,000 times, which clearly indicates a fine of 10,000 times the actual value of the item is not excessive. Ok, I know some math nazi is going to come along and try to prove this wrong, so we'll just cut that off before it starts by pointing out that everyone always downloads the same illegal download 10,000 times so the math actually does work out.
The confusion is the difference between upload bandwidth and the act of uploading.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Download
First of all, Vista is able to address memory over 2gb (a software limitation of XP).
Wrong. The limitation is around 3.3GB of memory, and all 32-bit OSes have that limitation, including Vista 32-bit.
I do agree with the general sentiment of your post though.
Try spending a day at work on a Vista machine. You'll see what we're talking about.
I've used Vista every day at work for almost 4 months now. And slowly but surely it's convincing me it's ready for my home machines as well. I haven't given in yet, but I'm guessing I will soon now.
apart from maybe checking out their legal pages.
But isn't that enough reason? I mean, they have some really good advice there. Like, make sure you use a good quality retractable baton.
Bit torrent starts to upload literally as soon as you have data that any other peer needs. It seems to me like new peers are given some data ASAP for that very reason. And then of course, as soon as you have some data to upload, another peer/seed is relieved from uploading that particular data, giving it more upload cap to send you more data, etc. As long as people aren't too stingy with their upload it works pretty well.
I tried doing it once, only to discover that the nasty article just contradicted everything in the summary and the comments. NEVER RTFA, those things are lying pieces of shit.
If we didn't change the clocks then supposedly you'll use more energy by turning on lights when it's dark out, because it's 7am and you have to get ready for work. You also don't have to spend any additional effort darkening your room to go to sleep at night.
You kinda got that backwards. DST gets you up an hour earlier in the morning during the summer, so you'd actually be more likely to have to turn on the lights in the morning. The original concept behind DST was so people don't waste as many candles after work. Now though, most people use the lights in the house whether it's dark outside or not, and using the lights an extra hour more or less every day doesn't add up to nearly as much as the cost of using extra candles back in the day. Also, as a study showed a while back, the lower cost in lighting is now being outweighed by higher costs in cooling, because most people who come home from work in the summer don't want to mess around outside, and so instead of getting home when the house is already cooler (because it's later in the day) they come home when it's still hot and crank up the AC.
So literally the only people who still benefit from DST are the ones who have some outdoor hobby they want to do after work (not before) that has to be done in areas that aren't lit up by plenty of lighting. And there's not very many of those hobbies and areas left. Even most golf courses nowadays are lit up enough to finish your game after dark. Really, the only hobbies that are left that still benefit from DST can be just as easily done before work as after. So we all pay the price in energy bills, mandatory jet lag, and the inconvenience of changing clocks. Just so a very small percentage of people can do their little hobbies after work instead of before. Yup, sounds like a great trade.
It always amuses me that the people who are anti changing the clocks say that the people who like it can just "get up earlier". The people who don't like it could just "get up later".
Now you're just being stupid. If we only worked a few hours in the middle of the day, you'd be absolutely right. For most people though the work day starts as soon as they get up. So sure, show me this place where I can go work and they don't care if I just decide to come in to work an hour later every morning during DST. People like you don't amuse me. But you do amaze me at how stupid and selfish you are about this issue. Somehow you think it makes sense to make everyone change clocks twice a year and get up an hour earlier during the summer, just so you can do your little personal hobbies after work instead of before.
And don't kid yourself, that's the only thing DST does now. And even for outdoor activities, the ones that actually need daylight are now so few and far between, keeping DST around is irresponsible and stupid.
No, this is wrong. The total hours of daylight don't change but the usable hours do.
I get up for work around 6am usually. For most of the year it is dark. For much of the rest the sun is just up. For just a couple of months in the year the sun is up early enough that I could use the daylight in the morning and then be back in the house at 6am to get ready for work.
At the end of the day it's similar - except that this time I can use the daylight in the evening until it's too dark. Only then do I have to go in and get cleaned up etc.
No one is stopping you from getting up earlier and going to bed earlier, regardless of DST. You can go to bed as soon as you get off work if you want, and then get up as soon as you've had enough sleep. DST giving anyone more 'usable' daylight is a myth.
If all you want to do outside is sit and read a book then it probably doesn't make much difference (although it's usually much warmer in the evening when the sun is setting than it is in the morning when the sun is rising.)
But I want to be out cycling, working in the garden etc.
So I want it dark in the morning when I get up and go to work because that is dead time. And I want it light in the evenings because I can utilize all the hours of light.
Yeah, see I can do that too.
If all you want to do after work is piddle around by yourself doing things like cycling, working in the garden, etc. then sure you'll like the extra daylight in the evening.
But I want to be out late in the evening hanging out with friends, having a good time, etc.
So I want to sleep in late in the mornings and have it already be daylight when I get up and go to work, because all the best social activities happen after it's already dark out in the evening. And getting up an hour earlier just sucks any way you look at it, if you don't happen to be a morning person.
See, what you bring up is only personal preference. It's nothing more than a "what I want" vs. "what you want". And guess what, what I want is to not have to get up an extra hour early so all 200 of you in the world who want extra time to cycle or garden an extra hour can do it after work instead of before. And what I want means no one has to fuck around with clocks twice a year or deal with stupid mandatory jet lag twice a year.
So get over yourself. If you want to cycle or garden, get your ass out of bed an hour early and do it before you go to work, and don't pretend like you're doing anyone else any favors by making everyone get up an hour early for no reason.
DST needs to die. It out-lived its usefulness about 90 years ago.
Right now, I see the idiodicy of DST. You don't actually get more daylight, we just fool you into thinking you do.
Too bad most people aren't that smart.
All DST does is change what time your clock shows. It doesn't change what time it really is, and it doesn't change what time your body thinks it is. And it for damned sure doesn't give anyone more fucking daylight.
You're actually wrong. Until they changed it, the law was Eastern time with no DST. But several counties close to big cities in other states (namely Chicago and Cincinnati) defied this law for obvious reasons. And the state just kind of turned a blind eye, for equally obvious reasons. And yes, I grew up in Indiana as well and thoroughly despise DST. It needs to go the way of the dodo, seeing as how it's a lot more useless now than... well, pretty much anything, ever.
I'm not a biker (yet), but I have to agree with a lot of the posts here. The biggest problem is people just don't pay attention. I'll be the first to admit, I push the limits a lot in my car, but I've never had a problem seeing either type of cyclist on the road. The only time there's any visual difficulty at all is when it's dark and one headlamp/tail-lamp is a bit difficult to use as a point of reference for distance. But that's never proved to be a big problem. I've also had other drivers pull out right in front of my car, and I always drive with my headlights on. There was one time it was nearly dark and some moron pulled out and did a left turn right in front of me, to the point I pretty much came to a complete stop to avoid him. How do you not see a car bearing down on you after dark with the headlights on? But I guess I'm doing alright with defensive driving, since the only accidents I've ever had (caused by me or otherwise) were when I was a young kid and caused by misjudging my vehicle's capabilities in the rain.
This does reinforce for me though the importance of the conscious effort I always make when behind a biker to leave even more distance than I normally would following someone, so they know I see them.
I'm pretty sure this list is about mods that are still mods, and have not evolved to stand-alone games. I've never played Ricochet, but both Counter-Strike and Team Fortress are now full-fledged retail games and therefore no longer qualify as mods.
Also, they give due credit to Counter-Strike on the first page.
Yes, but that's if you're looking for a job as things are now. If the economy really does take that big of a dump and so many people are unemployed, tech jobs are gonna be some of the first to dry up. "Looking for a job" will not include all that much resume sending and waiting. It'll be more of looking for a job anywhere you can think and doing any kind of odd job you can find to make a buck. Hopefully we won't get to that point, but right now we're on very similar path to where we were about 80 years ago.
You are of course falling for the common fallacy that any
free time that a person has can be magically converted
into gold as if they had some sort of Philosophers stone.
That isn't necessarily the case. Infact, it will probably
be MORE likely rather than less likely that people have
free time on their hands in the near future.
And most people will be using that 'free time' to look for a job.
I seriously hope you just posted that for the lulz.
I've been weaning myself off it - hence my posting as AC. I "lost" my login and email so that I'm not wasting so much time here on Slashdot,
Obviously your devious plan has been very successful.
Indeed. Despite all the hours I've played (and enjoyed) in MMOs, I have to say the most fun gaming hours I've ever had were multiplayer Tetris on the original Gameboy and multiplayer GoldenEye on the N64. Not far behind are games like split-screen Madden, Mario Party, etc. And of course small LAN parties featuring games like UT, RA2, and AOE2. I'll give up a great many other activities for many of the above, even now. Real life interaction is just something that cannot be replaced by the internet, no matter how hard you try.
Even the most hardcore of gamers / power users would see that price point and say RAID Array, here I come!
Not me. I hate RAID even more than morgan hates dishonest people.
I'm inclined to agree with you. Also worthy of note is that most of the other drives in the test are actually more expensive, despite having less space. And guess what, most of the ones on the test that come in at a lower price are also ones that are outperformed by the new drive on virtually every test. So yes please, I'll take 50% more space for better read speeds and less money, not to mention a 5-year warranty. I've purchased Seagate drives exclusively for about 4 years now, and have yet to have one fail on me. Also worked at a computer service/build for a year recently where we used Seagate drives exclusively, and saw maybe as high as a 1% failure rate on new drives.
The tagline for that will be "Where do you want to pirate today?"
Yup! And it's a pretty sweet trick too!
Wait a minute... so he put it in there to dry out, left the door wide open and his wife put it on preheat without looking inside?? One of them's an idiot.