If you want the cable company to sell you cable a la carte then you need to cancel your cable subscription, and tell them why.
They've sabotaged that option also through evil pricing.
Our basic package includes at least 50 channels (we watch about 10 of them) along with 100/10 unthrottled internet. The extra package we get from our cable company costs about 9eur/month and provides about 10 channels or so (I forget - we only watch 4 of them). If you want, you can actually buy single channels a la carte, at 5eur/month each. Some cost more, of course, such as the dumber sports channels & all porn channels. If we got just the channels we watch, the a la carte price for the channels alone would be rather higher than the combined monthly bill for TV + 100/10 internet.
So one day the atoms might just realize that they've been tricked and you'll end up with your computer on fire because your benzene chains have all broken and you end up with 2-methyl-1,3,5-trinitrobenzene
Actually, the explosive yield is greater if you omit the methyl group. Trinitrobenzene out-booms trinitrotoluene, but is harder to handle due to its lower stability.
How exactly do you expect DHS to scan your exabyte disks at the border? Better gather all your porn and terrorism-related stuff into one convenient folder for them to find, so as not to inconvenience the dullards.
And what about those poor MediaDefender buffoons? Scanning a few exabytes for Madonna's pathetic wails could take them years.
It's already a challenge to fill a 60GB MP3 player with MP3s. I have 9TB of disks on the network at home, and it's less than half full, even with all of our CDs and DVDs ripped onto the server - and of the 9TB, we use 6TB as double backup of the 3TB primary storage.
What's a person to do when disk capacities increase by another 3 orders of magnitude?
"70 percent more likely than people of normal weight to die" did they also find the fountain of youth?
It's the other way around: they found the fountain of zombies, and it's apparently in Canada!
Normal people have a 100% chance of dying (obviously), so these poor saps must have a 170% chance of dying. On average, therefore, they will die 1.7 times each. Damn Canadian zombies.
Zuckerberg envisions a more personalized, humanized Web, where our network of friends, colleagues, peers, and family is our primary source of information, just as it is offline.
Zuckerberg's vision of offline life must be based on that Idiocracy movie.
My "network" of family, friends, colleagues, etc. is not my primary source of information. They may contribute valuable opinions, and frequently some useful facts or pointers to where relevant information can be found. However, most of my information - online or offline - comes from more authoratitive sources. I rely on textbooks, reference books, and so forth, as well as on searches online (google/wikipedia are starting points). I also actually seek out and consult with experts for facts/advice, whether medical or construction or fishing or whatever.
SWOTL was top shelf, the last and best 2.5D flight simulator by Totally Games/Lucasfilm Games. The manual alone was worth the price of the box.
Ah, happy memories! I still have the SWOTL manual, and it was exemplary in providing well-researched background material as well as instructions for the game. In fact, the box for SWOTL is also lying around here somewhere, even including the "code wheel" for its DRM. Of course, a simple binary patch removed the DRM from the program...
It's true, you only had 60 rounds of 30mm ammo, but with the Mk.103 cannon and careful aim you could easily knock every opponent out of the sky before running out. The P-51s usually only took two or three rounds to destroy utterly. Always fun to fly a tour of duty in the 229, although to tell the truth, the Do.335 from an expansion pack was my most favourite. It was a little slower and less maneuverable, but still faster than any Allied fighter (well, except the P-80, another expansion pack fighter) and probably the most durable plane in the entire game.
I also have the Do-335 and P-80 expansion packs, and it was fun to take one 229 against a group of P-80s. With a binary editor and a cheat sheet of field locations, I could increase the amount of ammo and its caliber, and change the power of the engine or manoeverability of a plane. It was more fun to fly un-modded, of course (not to mention the fatal side-effects of modding your guns up to fire shells with explosive force of 5000kg of TNT).
Hmm, does SWOTL run OK and find the joystick in DOSbox or some other VM?
However, it has never been demonstrated to me that any of the FACTS stated in the Bible, be they a scientific or historical are wrong.
No? Here's an easy one for you.
The bible says that pi is equal to three (I Kings 7:23-26). The text states that a circle whose diameter is 10 cubits has a circumference of 30 cubits. Now, even if we allow for rounding to an integer number of cubits, the circumference would be approximated as 31 cubits, not 30.
You should be able to arrange your own demonstration that the bible is wrong in this, just using a measuring tape and a wheel or other circular object. Measure in cubits, if you like, the bible will still be wrong.
The Horton 229 was one of the planes in the 1990-ish DOS game Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe, in which it was designated the Gotha 229. However, the manuals contained descriptions and pictured of the captured airframes, and it's the same plane.
It was my favourite for flying in that game - fast and manoeverable, with good weapons, but insufficient ammo. P-51s, P-47s, P-38s, and suchlike were lambs to the slaughter, until your ammo ran out. Of course, you could patch the aircraft definition file to fix the ammo supply, and tweak its performance in other ways (thrust ramp, fuel, various rate of climb/turn parameters, etc.)
Advice: avoid lutefisk. It's nasty, very nasty.
In fact, in the nastiest dish in the world competition, Norway powered into second place with lutefisk. It was judged more repulsive than Scotland's haggis, but less disgusting than the Swedish entry, surströmming (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surstrmming, even the Swedes have to drink a bottle of vodka before eating it).
Boiled sheep's eyes or raw sea-slugs taste a lot nicer than lutefisk or surströmming. I speak from actual experience.
And on the 3-year-old Dell Dimension M610 which afflicts me at work, the thing cannot even complete booting Windows XP on its original battery. Mind you, it has to load a lot of corporate dross during startup, but it still seems crappy that it cannot even boot on battery power after 3 years of mostly running on AC in its docking station. A replacement laptop has been ordered, thankfully (with two batteries, of course).
Uh, that's grade school math. In high school they learn all of the other numbers:
one, two, few, some, many, too many.
At least, that's the level of many high school leavers in the U.S. these days. Counting badly on the fingers of one hand because they don't want to put down the GameBoy/iPhone or whatever they're jerking in the other hand.
Why is the site you link to in your piece show as 100% black in Firefox 3.0.11?
And as 100% white in Opera 9.64? The page source is not viewable either.
It looks like enormously incompetent coding, or a pathetic failed attempt at malware distribution.
For my next trick, I'll compare the state of Ubuntu circa 2002
Since the first version of Ubuntu was in 2004 (Warty Warthog), that would be quite a feat.
I installed Warty, and it was a bit rough on a Sony VAIO laptop. However, the following version (Breezy Badger) installed and found everything and configured the wireless network, display, bluetooth, etc. just dandy. We dual-booted Breezy with XP, but when Dapper Drake arrived I got rid of XP for good.
Same here, affecting Opera 9.64, Firefox 3.0.11, and Epiphany 2.26.1 on Ubuntu Jaunty 64 bit.
At least the blank subject lines were fixed in creating this particular bug in slashdot.
Should there be transparency in who donates money to politicians? What about corps who donate money?
Only those eligible to vote should be allowed to donate money to politicians or political parties or their ilk, and all such donations should be public. For everyone else, including corporations, such donations should be forbidden with severe penalties.
weill go on and BING for "Microsoft word torrent" and see for yourself who's the winner
Wanting to torrent Microsoft Office would indicate a loser, not a winner.
FWIW, both Google and Bing gave lengthy lists of results to the search. The results from Bing seemed to have more malware indicators like "crakz" in their titles, but the torrents from both are probably all unclean.
Anyone who downloads and installs cracked software from a torrent deserves the consequences - no matter what search engine was used to find it. Alas, the resulting botnet/worm/whatever pestilence may cause collateral suffering for the rest of us.
Wrong, you decide to give it to Bill. I decide to give it to Linus and he asks for a lot less.
Actually, he pays Bill to take all of the hardware performance improvement away.
Linus only takes about half of it in cumulative updates, and does not charge.
We're up to, what, over 900 channels? If we say that the cable bill is $90 a month (and that's overestimating), that's only a single dollar per channel
Is this Hollywood accounting? Or bankruptcy: 10 cents on the dollar?
You mean Lifetime, HSN, basically the ones nobody watches anyway??
No, they mean the Science Channel and Discovery.
Interestingly, Discovery and Animal Planet are the ones our kids watch the most. In fact, those two channels are more than 90% of the kids' viewing, and they can select any of the channels we get (about 80, didn't count, don't care). I watch a few minutes of news/weather on YLE, CNN, Nelonen, and EuroNews. The other channels, from Nickelodeon to Showtime to MTV to BBC Food to Deutsche Welle, are worthless and remain unwatched.
My candidate for the channel which should not suck, but does: National Geographic (religious loonies at weekends, air disaster and other death fetish programs at prime time).
Humph.
My first two languages in Chemical Engineering were FORTRAN and APL. Of the two, the interpreted language APL was used far more, especially for making quick programs to do computations & graphs for lab reports. We used FORTRAN IV (pre-F66, FWIW), with decks - nay, boxes - of punched cards, for larger scale stuff, such as projects extending over a whole term. I can still recite the JCL incantations needed...
Now get off the retirement center's lawn.
Now that they're cutting a portion of the service out - do you get a cut on the monthly rate as well?
Of course not. They're improving their service, by removing unused overhead, thus speeding up[*] access to all other data. You'll pay a lot more, as you already should.
[*] speedup will give speeds of up to 100% of previous speeds.
2 hours from now I won't even be finished downloading it, much less evaluating it - and I have a decent pipe I'm pulling from.
How do you define "decent pipe"?
A single 700MB ISO should take less than 2 minutes on 100Mbps fiber. Usually, it takes a bit longer than that, since the server may not allocate that much bandwidth to a single download, or there is likely to be a bottleneck somewhere else on the route. Still, I get a typical distro ISO in less than 5 minutes - equivalent to about a 20Mbps link. If it's taking 2 hours, there is something wrong - that's only 100kbps throughput.
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If you want the cable company to sell you cable a la carte then you need to cancel your cable subscription, and tell them why.
They've sabotaged that option also through evil pricing.
Our basic package includes at least 50 channels (we watch about 10 of them) along with 100/10 unthrottled internet. The extra package we get from our cable company costs about 9eur/month and provides about 10 channels or so (I forget - we only watch 4 of them). If you want, you can actually buy single channels a la carte, at 5eur/month each. Some cost more, of course, such as the dumber sports channels & all porn channels. If we got just the channels we watch, the a la carte price for the channels alone would be rather higher than the combined monthly bill for TV + 100/10 internet.
So one day the atoms might just realize that they've been tricked and you'll end up with your computer on fire because your benzene chains have all broken and you end up with 2-methyl-1,3,5-trinitrobenzene
Actually, the explosive yield is greater if you omit the methyl group. Trinitrobenzene out-booms trinitrotoluene, but is harder to handle due to its lower stability.
How exactly do you expect DHS to scan your exabyte disks at the border? Better gather all your porn and terrorism-related stuff into one convenient folder for them to find, so as not to inconvenience the dullards.
And what about those poor MediaDefender buffoons? Scanning a few exabytes for Madonna's pathetic wails could take them years.
It's already a challenge to fill a 60GB MP3 player with MP3s. I have 9TB of disks on the network at home, and it's less than half full, even with all of our CDs and DVDs ripped onto the server - and of the 9TB, we use 6TB as double backup of the 3TB primary storage.
What's a person to do when disk capacities increase by another 3 orders of magnitude?
"70 percent more likely than people of normal weight to die" did they also find the fountain of youth?
It's the other way around: they found the fountain of zombies, and it's apparently in Canada!
Normal people have a 100% chance of dying (obviously), so these poor saps must have a 170% chance of dying. On average, therefore, they will die 1.7 times each. Damn Canadian zombies.
Zuckerberg envisions a more personalized, humanized Web, where our network of friends, colleagues, peers, and family is our primary source of information, just as it is offline.
Zuckerberg's vision of offline life must be based on that Idiocracy movie.
My "network" of family, friends, colleagues, etc. is not my primary source of information. They may contribute valuable opinions, and frequently some useful facts or pointers to where relevant information can be found. However, most of my information - online or offline - comes from more authoratitive sources. I rely on textbooks, reference books, and so forth, as well as on searches online (google/wikipedia are starting points). I also actually seek out and consult with experts for facts/advice, whether medical or construction or fishing or whatever.
SWOTL was top shelf, the last and best 2.5D flight simulator by Totally Games/Lucasfilm Games. The manual alone was worth the price of the box.
Ah, happy memories! I still have the SWOTL manual, and it was exemplary in providing well-researched background material as well as instructions for the game. In fact, the box for SWOTL is also lying around here somewhere, even including the "code wheel" for its DRM. Of course, a simple binary patch removed the DRM from the program...
It's true, you only had 60 rounds of 30mm ammo, but with the Mk.103 cannon and careful aim you could easily knock every opponent out of the sky before running out. The P-51s usually only took two or three rounds to destroy utterly. Always fun to fly a tour of duty in the 229, although to tell the truth, the Do.335 from an expansion pack was my most favourite. It was a little slower and less maneuverable, but still faster than any Allied fighter (well, except the P-80, another expansion pack fighter) and probably the most durable plane in the entire game.
I also have the Do-335 and P-80 expansion packs, and it was fun to take one 229 against a group of P-80s. With a binary editor and a cheat sheet of field locations, I could increase the amount of ammo and its caliber, and change the power of the engine or manoeverability of a plane. It was more fun to fly un-modded, of course (not to mention the fatal side-effects of modding your guns up to fire shells with explosive force of 5000kg of TNT).
Hmm, does SWOTL run OK and find the joystick in DOSbox or some other VM?
However, it has never been demonstrated to me that any of the FACTS stated in the Bible, be they a scientific or historical are wrong.
No? Here's an easy one for you.
The bible says that pi is equal to three (I Kings 7:23-26). The text states that a circle whose diameter is 10 cubits has a circumference of 30 cubits. Now, even if we allow for rounding to an integer number of cubits, the circumference would be approximated as 31 cubits, not 30.
You should be able to arrange your own demonstration that the bible is wrong in this, just using a measuring tape and a wheel or other circular object. Measure in cubits, if you like, the bible will still be wrong.
The Horton 229 was one of the planes in the 1990-ish DOS game Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe, in which it was designated the Gotha 229. However, the manuals contained descriptions and pictured of the captured airframes, and it's the same plane.
It was my favourite for flying in that game - fast and manoeverable, with good weapons, but insufficient ammo. P-51s, P-47s, P-38s, and suchlike were lambs to the slaughter, until your ammo ran out. Of course, you could patch the aircraft definition file to fix the ammo supply, and tweak its performance in other ways (thrust ramp, fuel, various rate of climb/turn parameters, etc.)
Top three are pork ribs, Pinnekjøtt and Lutefisk.
Advice: avoid lutefisk. It's nasty, very nasty.
In fact, in the nastiest dish in the world competition, Norway powered into second place with lutefisk. It was judged more repulsive than Scotland's haggis, but less disgusting than the Swedish entry, surströmming (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surstrmming, even the Swedes have to drink a bottle of vodka before eating it).
Boiled sheep's eyes or raw sea-slugs taste a lot nicer than lutefisk or surströmming. I speak from actual experience.
And on the 3-year-old Dell Dimension M610 which afflicts me at work, the thing cannot even complete booting Windows XP on its original battery. Mind you, it has to load a lot of corporate dross during startup, but it still seems crappy that it cannot even boot on battery power after 3 years of mostly running on AC in its docking station. A replacement laptop has been ordered, thankfully (with two batteries, of course).
Uh, that's grade school math. In high school they learn all of the other numbers:
one, two, few, some, many, too many.
At least, that's the level of many high school leavers in the U.S. these days. Counting badly on the fingers of one hand because they don't want to put down the GameBoy/iPhone or whatever they're jerking in the other hand.
Why is the site you link to in your piece show as 100% black in Firefox 3.0.11?
And as 100% white in Opera 9.64? The page source is not viewable either.
It looks like enormously incompetent coding, or a pathetic failed attempt at malware distribution.
For my next trick, I'll compare the state of Ubuntu circa 2002
Since the first version of Ubuntu was in 2004 (Warty Warthog), that would be quite a feat.
I installed Warty, and it was a bit rough on a Sony VAIO laptop. However, the following version (Breezy Badger) installed and found everything and configured the wireless network, display, bluetooth, etc. just dandy. We dual-booted Breezy with XP, but when Dapper Drake arrived I got rid of XP for good.
Same here, affecting Opera 9.64, Firefox 3.0.11, and Epiphany 2.26.1 on Ubuntu Jaunty 64 bit.
At least the blank subject lines were fixed in creating this particular bug in slashdot.
Should there be transparency in who donates money to politicians? What about corps who donate money?
Only those eligible to vote should be allowed to donate money to politicians or political parties or their ilk, and all such donations should be public. For everyone else, including corporations, such donations should be forbidden with severe penalties.
and is piloted by L Ron himself! Probably full of Thetans, too.
weill go on and BING for "Microsoft word torrent" and see for yourself who's the winner
Wanting to torrent Microsoft Office would indicate a loser, not a winner.
FWIW, both Google and Bing gave lengthy lists of results to the search. The results from Bing seemed to have more malware indicators like "crakz" in their titles, but the torrents from both are probably all unclean.
Anyone who downloads and installs cracked software from a torrent deserves the consequences - no matter what search engine was used to find it. Alas, the resulting botnet/worm/whatever pestilence may cause collateral suffering for the rest of us.
Wrong, you decide to give it to Bill. I decide to give it to Linus and he asks for a lot less.
Actually, he pays Bill to take all of the hardware performance improvement away.
Linus only takes about half of it in cumulative updates, and does not charge.
We're up to, what, over 900 channels? If we say that the cable bill is $90 a month (and that's overestimating), that's only a single dollar per channel
Is this Hollywood accounting? Or bankruptcy: 10 cents on the dollar?
You mean Lifetime, HSN, basically the ones nobody watches anyway??
No, they mean the Science Channel and Discovery.
Interestingly, Discovery and Animal Planet are the ones our kids watch the most. In fact, those two channels are more than 90% of the kids' viewing, and they can select any of the channels we get (about 80, didn't count, don't care). I watch a few minutes of news/weather on YLE, CNN, Nelonen, and EuroNews. The other channels, from Nickelodeon to Showtime to MTV to BBC Food to Deutsche Welle, are worthless and remain unwatched.
My candidate for the channel which should not suck, but does: National Geographic (religious loonies at weekends, air disaster and other death fetish programs at prime time).
Humph.
My first two languages in Chemical Engineering were FORTRAN and APL. Of the two, the interpreted language APL was used far more, especially for making quick programs to do computations & graphs for lab reports. We used FORTRAN IV (pre-F66, FWIW), with decks - nay, boxes - of punched cards, for larger scale stuff, such as projects extending over a whole term. I can still recite the JCL incantations needed...
Now get off the retirement center's lawn.
Now that they're cutting a portion of the service out - do you get a cut on the monthly rate as well?
Of course not. They're improving their service, by removing unused overhead, thus speeding up[*] access to all other data. You'll pay a lot more, as you already should.
[*] speedup will give speeds of up to 100% of previous speeds.
2 hours from now I won't even be finished downloading it, much less evaluating it - and I have a decent pipe I'm pulling from.
How do you define "decent pipe"?
A single 700MB ISO should take less than 2 minutes on 100Mbps fiber. Usually, it takes a bit longer than that, since the server may not allocate that much bandwidth to a single download, or there is likely to be a bottleneck somewhere else on the route. Still, I get a typical distro ISO in less than 5 minutes - equivalent to about a 20Mbps link. If it's taking 2 hours, there is something wrong - that's only 100kbps throughput.
Belgium
Please don't use that word in polite company!
And don't use it here either!