But don't many phone calls cross providers' networks and incur charges there, as well? Yet usually you only pay for the calls you make, not the ones you receive, when dealing with land lines. So in that light, the cell phones companies' ideas don't quite make sense (except, of course, in revenue -- where roughly anything can be made to make sense).
All I know is that when I make a call I have a need to reach someone and thus I accept the monetary burden involved in telling them what I need to tell them. When someone else calls me, I don't know whether it's an emergency or a friend catching up or just a telemarketer, so until phone calls come with "from" and "subject" headers, a phone company should have no right at all to charge me for what I might not even want to hear. (And even in that case, wouldn't telemarketers just give misleadingly important subjects like spammers do?)
A lot of slashdotters may never RTFA, but some of us like to know something of what the article is going to be about, so we can decide if it's worth R'ing-TFA. Otherwise Slashdot would just be a collection of titled links and not link, summary, discussion. Just a little gripe.
The reviewer noted that he could type quickly on the Das Keyboard, but how about accurately? And how do his speed and accuracy compare to a keyboard he uses more regularly? I'd say from personal experience that I tend to type more accurately on mechanical keyboards (and thus feel free to speed up), but this is a review -- I'd like it to be thorough enough that it includes quantifiable information in this regard, such as typing test results. Accuracy is an important factor when you're actually shelling out for a keyboard on which to type.
Yes, but are we talking the same model and production run of RAM? Some others are saying that Apple uses higher-quality parts, which would make their higher markup a little more equivalent, if not fully on-par.
It seems on the outside that running one OS, with its particular resource demands, on top of another OS with its own, would slow down performance. But given ozmanjusri and Bert64's replies, particularly reminding me that WINE isn't itself an operating system, I suppose that there's actually some hope. Not that Microsoft would be particularly happy about it, but I'd love to see the results of a homebrew attempt to do what siddesu described.
I'm sorry, but I find it hard to believe that an OS that was even further abstracted, by being placed on top of another operating system, could be faster or more stable. Windows 3.1 over DOS, anyone? And those were both comparative lightweights.
On the other hand, perhaps this lowering of inhibitions is beneficial for our self-expression. I bet you'll see a lot of people who have problems interacting "normally" in real life carrying on conversations online that are indistinguishable from those of the socially well-adjusted. And personally, I find myself more able to talk with friends and new acquaintances about issues that are important and worthy of being brought up, but still seen as too taboo or embarrassing for public discussion (example: I find it easier to keep a level head when talking about religion when I can quickly skim over and reflect on what I'm about to say). All we have to do is learn how to rein it in properly and we're golden -- and if we can translate that newfound talkativeness to real life as well, so much the better.
I've only noticed two things about memory while testing out Firefox (and mind you, these are from watching Windows Task Manager, so they may not be the most reliable observations).
My basic quick for-the-hell-of-it test was to load a couple dozen high-resolution pictures (1024x768 or larger) on Opera and Firefox and watch the memory counter. Opera was fairly consistent about how the memory use increased over time, but didn't pack it down as much as Firefox. Firefox was very aggressive about reducing RAM usage, but seemed to do so only after all images had been loaded (when there was plenty of loadtime, given my 200KB/s connection, to reduce the other images' space). Additionally, RAM ballooned (at one point I hit 600MB) each time I loaded a new small set of images, then was gradually packed back down.
Firefox 3's performance is still better than FF2 by a long shot, but given that one of my computers is an old ThinkPad with a mere 320MB RAM, I'd be more able to predict its responsiveness while using Opera, as opposed to Firefox possibly locking up the system for some time until it packs things back down.
Ah, but don't forget that a lot of that address space is reserved for experimental use, whole class-A ranges were grabbed by single, small*ish* companies in the early days (example: Apple), and many people require several public IPs (for example, for multiple webservers). Granted, network address translation can stave it off a little longer, but eventually, given the pace of world population growth, that 25% of the population will soon be 4 billion people. We may as well change now, before we run into bigger problems when we do actually run out.
Also, question for anyone who knows: Are cell phones that access the Internet assigned IPs, or do cell data services use some other kind of scheme? Given that there are billions of cells in this world (probably more people have cells than go online), that would seem to use it up rather quickly.
If you want something a little more quantifiable, I will first state that the Linux implementation of flash seems even more unnecessarily CPU-intensive than Windows. To wit, my Athlon 3500+ cannot play YouTubes without skipping (Firefox 2, openSUSE 10.3, latest version of Flash), while it could do three simultaneously on Windows if I ever wanted to.
Now, notice how many MySpace pages have one or multiple flash-based music players, several video windows that sometimes even start autoplaying, and of course the flash-based ads, and opening your best friend's MySpace quickly chokes the entire computer down for minutes on end. This is annoying, and Facebook's lack of such silly embed-mania is a welcome breather. Although pages can still be full to the brim with apps.
I've noticed that, but are any other brands doing the same? Sure, using a TrackPoint kind of sucks if your fingers are a little greasy, but otherwise it's a lot less motion-intensive and a bit more precise.
True that. It may sound silly, but I buy solely ThinkPads because I can't stand touchpads. Once you go to the TrackPoint you never want to tilt any other way.
Yes, but how many people are there who pose for porn pics, or make porn videos, compared to the amount of strip clubs and their employees? Also, a lot of people would be hesitant to go to a strip club just in case someone they know recognizes their car in the lot -- or is, embarrassingly enough, attending the same "event."
Unlike music, generally there's a pretty small market for the stars of porn to get out and perform live and make money via that alternative revenue stream -- particularly considering the social taboo involved. And I don't suppose many people would wear an "I 3 Tawnee Stone" T-shirt in public either. 'Bout the only way for porn to make money is for people to pay for the pics and vids they want.
I know it's breaking rules 1 and 2, but I wouldn't be surprised if 4chan was on the list. While it's a forum for everything from anime screenshots to computer troubleshooting, it does get flooded with child porn every once in awhile. No matter how responsive the moderators are in removing it (and they usually are), I can see a lot of groups choosing to focus on the fact that child porn *can* be posted to it in the first place.
I noticed that Wikipedia did have an article for the Get Out Clause awhile back but it was deleted -- probably for not being notable. Doesn't major news coverage like this count as notable?
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But don't many phone calls cross providers' networks and incur charges there, as well? Yet usually you only pay for the calls you make, not the ones you receive, when dealing with land lines. So in that light, the cell phones companies' ideas don't quite make sense (except, of course, in revenue -- where roughly anything can be made to make sense). All I know is that when I make a call I have a need to reach someone and thus I accept the monetary burden involved in telling them what I need to tell them. When someone else calls me, I don't know whether it's an emergency or a friend catching up or just a telemarketer, so until phone calls come with "from" and "subject" headers, a phone company should have no right at all to charge me for what I might not even want to hear. (And even in that case, wouldn't telemarketers just give misleadingly important subjects like spammers do?)
A lot of slashdotters may never RTFA, but some of us like to know something of what the article is going to be about, so we can decide if it's worth R'ing-TFA. Otherwise Slashdot would just be a collection of titled links and not link, summary, discussion. Just a little gripe.
You can use the lasers to remove the hair from your palms once you're done with the porn. :P
The reviewer noted that he could type quickly on the Das Keyboard, but how about accurately? And how do his speed and accuracy compare to a keyboard he uses more regularly? I'd say from personal experience that I tend to type more accurately on mechanical keyboards (and thus feel free to speed up), but this is a review -- I'd like it to be thorough enough that it includes quantifiable information in this regard, such as typing test results. Accuracy is an important factor when you're actually shelling out for a keyboard on which to type.
Yes, but are we talking the same model and production run of RAM? Some others are saying that Apple uses higher-quality parts, which would make their higher markup a little more equivalent, if not fully on-par.
It seems on the outside that running one OS, with its particular resource demands, on top of another OS with its own, would slow down performance. But given ozmanjusri and Bert64's replies, particularly reminding me that WINE isn't itself an operating system, I suppose that there's actually some hope. Not that Microsoft would be particularly happy about it, but I'd love to see the results of a homebrew attempt to do what siddesu described.
I'm sorry, but I find it hard to believe that an OS that was even further abstracted, by being placed on top of another operating system, could be faster or more stable. Windows 3.1 over DOS, anyone? And those were both comparative lightweights.
On the other hand, perhaps this lowering of inhibitions is beneficial for our self-expression. I bet you'll see a lot of people who have problems interacting "normally" in real life carrying on conversations online that are indistinguishable from those of the socially well-adjusted. And personally, I find myself more able to talk with friends and new acquaintances about issues that are important and worthy of being brought up, but still seen as too taboo or embarrassing for public discussion (example: I find it easier to keep a level head when talking about religion when I can quickly skim over and reflect on what I'm about to say). All we have to do is learn how to rein it in properly and we're golden -- and if we can translate that newfound talkativeness to real life as well, so much the better.
Actually, in Japan you can not only buy beer and pornography from vending machines, you can also buy used panties...
But it's not the Internet! If anything it's the World Wide Web! D:
I've only noticed two things about memory while testing out Firefox (and mind you, these are from watching Windows Task Manager, so they may not be the most reliable observations). My basic quick for-the-hell-of-it test was to load a couple dozen high-resolution pictures (1024x768 or larger) on Opera and Firefox and watch the memory counter. Opera was fairly consistent about how the memory use increased over time, but didn't pack it down as much as Firefox. Firefox was very aggressive about reducing RAM usage, but seemed to do so only after all images had been loaded (when there was plenty of loadtime, given my 200KB/s connection, to reduce the other images' space). Additionally, RAM ballooned (at one point I hit 600MB) each time I loaded a new small set of images, then was gradually packed back down. Firefox 3's performance is still better than FF2 by a long shot, but given that one of my computers is an old ThinkPad with a mere 320MB RAM, I'd be more able to predict its responsiveness while using Opera, as opposed to Firefox possibly locking up the system for some time until it packs things back down.
Ah, but don't forget that a lot of that address space is reserved for experimental use, whole class-A ranges were grabbed by single, small*ish* companies in the early days (example: Apple), and many people require several public IPs (for example, for multiple webservers). Granted, network address translation can stave it off a little longer, but eventually, given the pace of world population growth, that 25% of the population will soon be 4 billion people. We may as well change now, before we run into bigger problems when we do actually run out.
Also, question for anyone who knows: Are cell phones that access the Internet assigned IPs, or do cell data services use some other kind of scheme? Given that there are billions of cells in this world (probably more people have cells than go online), that would seem to use it up rather quickly.
If you want something a little more quantifiable, I will first state that the Linux implementation of flash seems even more unnecessarily CPU-intensive than Windows. To wit, my Athlon 3500+ cannot play YouTubes without skipping (Firefox 2, openSUSE 10.3, latest version of Flash), while it could do three simultaneously on Windows if I ever wanted to. Now, notice how many MySpace pages have one or multiple flash-based music players, several video windows that sometimes even start autoplaying, and of course the flash-based ads, and opening your best friend's MySpace quickly chokes the entire computer down for minutes on end. This is annoying, and Facebook's lack of such silly embed-mania is a welcome breather. Although pages can still be full to the brim with apps.
I've noticed that, but are any other brands doing the same? Sure, using a TrackPoint kind of sucks if your fingers are a little greasy, but otherwise it's a lot less motion-intensive and a bit more precise.
True that. It may sound silly, but I buy solely ThinkPads because I can't stand touchpads. Once you go to the TrackPoint you never want to tilt any other way.
Any reason given as to why not?
Yes, but how many people are there who pose for porn pics, or make porn videos, compared to the amount of strip clubs and their employees? Also, a lot of people would be hesitant to go to a strip club just in case someone they know recognizes their car in the lot -- or is, embarrassingly enough, attending the same "event."
Unlike music, generally there's a pretty small market for the stars of porn to get out and perform live and make money via that alternative revenue stream -- particularly considering the social taboo involved. And I don't suppose many people would wear an "I 3 Tawnee Stone" T-shirt in public either. 'Bout the only way for porn to make money is for people to pay for the pics and vids they want.
That news article is why I'm trading in my van for a Vespa. You can never be too safe!
I know it's breaking rules 1 and 2, but I wouldn't be surprised if 4chan was on the list. While it's a forum for everything from anime screenshots to computer troubleshooting, it does get flooded with child porn every once in awhile. No matter how responsive the moderators are in removing it (and they usually are), I can see a lot of groups choosing to focus on the fact that child porn *can* be posted to it in the first place.
AltaVista has a prominent link on its home page for "MP3/Audio" searches. I don't see the RIAA taking them on.
You four-digit types. (yes, I realize...)
Does it count if I do my figures on a TI-99?
I noticed that Wikipedia did have an article for the Get Out Clause awhile back but it was deleted -- probably for not being notable. Doesn't major news coverage like this count as notable?
No, silly, it's that little "e"! The Internet is pretty small I guess...