I also think it's quite telling that Intel is coming out significantly ahead *despite a near-billion-dollar screw-up* with the Sandy Bridge/SATA3 issues...
I find Intel to be much more "set and forget" than the AMD products. AMD chips tend to be more fiddly and require more intervention to do exactly what you expect them to.
$0.95 is even cheaper than $0.99...just saying. If you want to discuss the psychological aspects, let's talk about dropping the big shiny silver coin, instead of the tiny worthless brownish-gold coin.
There is no reason you can't do this. Just pick the nice round number and divide by 1 plus the tax rate as a decimal (5.5% here, so.055).
There is no law saying you have to label things "+ Tax" instead of "Including Tax".
Internet sales are another matter(in the US) as tax is only applied if the purchase is shipped to the same state you sell from(unless you count pointless regulation from places like New York where they try and try to tax interstate sales with little to no success).
I'm curious how many evil under-the-radar provisions there are buried within this legislation that is ostensibly for automatic-driving cars. It seems we can't let anything go without scrutiny these days, lest they completely put one over on us and further erode our rights and liberties.
I would be interested to know the possibility of simulating a robotrader DDoS attack by manipulating the data sources the robotraders query for stock information.
Google banned the first site saying it could be spreading malware, which is proper diligence for a tech company and search engine. The second site it was posted on stayed live and the image continued to be returned in results until the curator of the blog hosting the image removed it himself and posted an apology. It wasn't clear to me if the blogger himself had created/posted the image, or if it was posted by someone from the general public.
If you read the first linked article, everything I just wrote is there, in clear text, which the parent neglected to share.
Google at no point removed an offensive image - they just blocked a potentially security-threatening site which happened to contain a contentious image. Google's position has always been to provide accurate results based on site ranking and popularity by visitors. At no point do they (or have they) removed content simply because it was unfavorable. Security concerns are a completely different matter, with separate criteria for removal.
I encourage/.ers to read this, and note that it was created almost *NINE YEARS AGO* before calling out Savage for bashing a presidential candidate or calling Savage the bully.
SpreadingSantorum has not become popular due to google bombing. It has become popular over the MANY YEARS it has been around because it was more popular than anything the asshole from which it takes its name has been doing. Now that he wants to run for POTUS, he finds it inconvenient that the negatives of what he has said and done in the past are more popularly searched than his actual actions, campaign promises, and political tenets(which are by all accounts still as bigoted and ignorant as they were years ago when Savage created SpreadingSantorum).
Why is this anyone's fault but his own? If he hadn't been so bastardly evil years back when this all started, there would be nothing to contend. But he couldn't keep his right-wing christian extremist mouth shut.
This would be like Hitler searching google and complaining that the first link that showed up was the Wiki article for Nazis.
Santorum said that homosexual intercourse was equivalent to having sex with a dog or other inanimate objects. These statements, and the resulting new definition of his name, occurred long before he was running for president, when he was simply an awful bigoted racist bible-pusher for the US government.
In no way has Santorum ever been ok with "whatever people want to do sexually...". He is trying to outlaw anal sex, gay sex, and any non-straight reproductive sex. Actively. He speaks against gay people and their rights nonstop. He is an evil, awful human being.
You MUST be joking. You're equating a modestly-famous homosexual journalist who stood up against a US Congress Critter who openly bashed gay people and said he wanted to eliminate them... to a group of senior jocks goading a freshman nerd into killing themselves?
When you get back to reality, kindly go fuck yourself - and try not to get any Santorum on the furniture.
Nobody is name calling. They just added another, probably unwanted meaning to his name.
If you look into why SpreadingSantorum and Savage's definition came to be(noting of course that this happened MANY years ago, long before Santorum was running for anything) you'll see that there is actually a political criticism in the new definition.
Santorum was openly gay-bashing and dehumanizing homosexuals from his position in the government. Savage, as a homosexual journalist, wasn't going to stand for it so he wrote at length about how Santorum was wrong, and to remind people of Santorum's inhumane - basically evil - position on homosexuality, he coined the term Santorum as the frothy mixture.
If you consider Dan Savage's actions bullyish, then how would you categorize Rick Santorum's previous public speakings and insults against homosexuality and same-sex relationships - from his position in the government no less? Rick Santorum is an openly-homophobic right-wing extremist. This is an easily observable fact.
This is why Dan Savage (a gay pro-gay-rights columnist, best featured in the Savage Love article in the back of the Onion newspaper) created SpreadingSantorum and coined the Santorum phrase. Note also that this happened a LONG time before Santorum was even a gleam in the eye of a misguided presidential race.
He got what he deserved, and now that he wants to be the president it's not going to suddenly disappear. He created his froth, he can lie in it.
The Dan Savage 'SpreadingSantorum' site and concept has been around for many years longer than this jackass and his presidential bid. It's also more accurate than his campaign materials as far as what he wants to do to this country, and his electability is correctly reflected at SpreadingSantorum. It's not Google's fault - it's not ANYONE's fault but his own. The results you get are correct, Google is doing it's job.
I was implying the entire process should have only taken three months(from "we have a new screen" to "we're done"). There's planning, and then there's overdoing it.
I can see how this might be plausible (a year, that is) if it includes the time that it took to decide which company to get the screen from, which screen to get, custom CAD work for the product, manufacturing time, and whatever other specific considerations go into an IMAX screen.
Why in the world would it take an entire year to plan hoisting a 800kg screen? That weighs less than my car. A few winches could get it in place without putting even the most fragile screen at risk. I wonder what they did with the other 9 months of that year?
FWIW, I have hung a full-sized non-IMAX screen in about half an hour with zero issues. Not 800kg, but at least 100.
When the government willfully and encouragingly allows companies to not pay millions in taxes and gives them discounts for shipping jobs overseas, yes, it is the government's responsibility to help the citizens.
How is one citizen going to attack a huge multinational corporation on their peasant's salary(compared to the execs and lawyers of Giantcorp)? How do citizens have any chance to succeed when the government just takes from them and gives it to the already-rich right and left? When the government just takes the highest bribes and does what they say?
At some point, the availability of quality, meaningful work has to be up to the government that presides over its regulation.
Sorry, "We the police want to do less, if possible zero, actual work" is not an acceptable reason for passing national and international copyright legislation.
The terrorists, who are in this case the US Government, have clearly won. They have taken the freedoms which we have been granted and been too glued to American Idol and MTV to defend. The ironic part is that they have used the 'fear of losing our freedom' to take it from us.
The general population are more concerned with celebrity housewives than who is running the country. They have won. We are now a slave population, and those that speak out against it will be detained and perpetually monitored until the powers-that-be determine they have reached their quota of 'unlawful speech' and have them imprisoned, deported, or executed.
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I also think it's quite telling that Intel is coming out significantly ahead *despite a near-billion-dollar screw-up* with the Sandy Bridge/SATA3 issues...
I find Intel to be much more "set and forget" than the AMD products. AMD chips tend to be more fiddly and require more intervention to do exactly what you expect them to.
You're one of those dastardly METRIC system people, aren't you? Get out! Go on, take your logic and simple order and shove it.
We work based on 1/8ths, 12s and 5280s. That is the scale we know and love, and I'll be damned if you'll take it from us!
$0.95 is even cheaper than $0.99...just saying. If you want to discuss the psychological aspects, let's talk about dropping the big shiny silver coin, instead of the tiny worthless brownish-gold coin.
There is no reason you can't do this. Just pick the nice round number and divide by 1 plus the tax rate as a decimal (5.5% here, so .055).
There is no law saying you have to label things "+ Tax" instead of "Including Tax".
Internet sales are another matter(in the US) as tax is only applied if the purchase is shipped to the same state you sell from(unless you count pointless regulation from places like New York where they try and try to tax interstate sales with little to no success).
I'm curious how many evil under-the-radar provisions there are buried within this legislation that is ostensibly for automatic-driving cars. It seems we can't let anything go without scrutiny these days, lest they completely put one over on us and further erode our rights and liberties.
I would be interested to know the possibility of simulating a robotrader DDoS attack by manipulating the data sources the robotraders query for stock information.
I'm so tired of these awful puns. You're all going on my liszt.
Google banned the first site saying it could be spreading malware, which is proper diligence for a tech company and search engine. The second site it was posted on stayed live and the image continued to be returned in results until the curator of the blog hosting the image removed it himself and posted an apology. It wasn't clear to me if the blogger himself had created/posted the image, or if it was posted by someone from the general public.
If you read the first linked article, everything I just wrote is there, in clear text, which the parent neglected to share.
Google at no point removed an offensive image - they just blocked a potentially security-threatening site which happened to contain a contentious image. Google's position has always been to provide accurate results based on site ranking and popularity by visitors. At no point do they (or have they) removed content simply because it was unfavorable. Security concerns are a completely different matter, with separate criteria for removal.
Then don't sodomize people or let them do it to you. That's fine.
There is no factual sanitary/public health concern from sodomy unless you happen to practice it on a street or public pool or something.
Don't start trying to pass laws against it. That's just nonsense and really none of your business.
The origin of the term 'Santorum'. From Dan Savage's "Savage Love" article May of 2003.
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/SavageLove?oid=14422
I encourage /.ers to read this, and note that it was created almost *NINE YEARS AGO* before calling out Savage for bashing a presidential candidate or calling Savage the bully.
SpreadingSantorum has not become popular due to google bombing. It has become popular over the MANY YEARS it has been around because it was more popular than anything the asshole from which it takes its name has been doing. Now that he wants to run for POTUS, he finds it inconvenient that the negatives of what he has said and done in the past are more popularly searched than his actual actions, campaign promises, and political tenets(which are by all accounts still as bigoted and ignorant as they were years ago when Savage created SpreadingSantorum).
Why is this anyone's fault but his own? If he hadn't been so bastardly evil years back when this all started, there would be nothing to contend. But he couldn't keep his right-wing christian extremist mouth shut.
This would be like Hitler searching google and complaining that the first link that showed up was the Wiki article for Nazis.
Santorum said that homosexual intercourse was equivalent to having sex with a dog or other inanimate objects. These statements, and the resulting new definition of his name, occurred long before he was running for president, when he was simply an awful bigoted racist bible-pusher for the US government.
In no way has Santorum ever been ok with "whatever people want to do sexually...". He is trying to outlaw anal sex, gay sex, and any non-straight reproductive sex. Actively. He speaks against gay people and their rights nonstop. He is an evil, awful human being.
You MUST be joking. You're equating a modestly-famous homosexual journalist who stood up against a US Congress Critter who openly bashed gay people and said he wanted to eliminate them... to a group of senior jocks goading a freshman nerd into killing themselves?
When you get back to reality, kindly go fuck yourself - and try not to get any Santorum on the furniture.
Nobody is name calling. They just added another, probably unwanted meaning to his name.
If you look into why SpreadingSantorum and Savage's definition came to be(noting of course that this happened MANY years ago, long before Santorum was running for anything) you'll see that there is actually a political criticism in the new definition.
Santorum was openly gay-bashing and dehumanizing homosexuals from his position in the government. Savage, as a homosexual journalist, wasn't going to stand for it so he wrote at length about how Santorum was wrong, and to remind people of Santorum's inhumane - basically evil - position on homosexuality, he coined the term Santorum as the frothy mixture.
If you consider Dan Savage's actions bullyish, then how would you categorize Rick Santorum's previous public speakings and insults against homosexuality and same-sex relationships - from his position in the government no less? Rick Santorum is an openly-homophobic right-wing extremist. This is an easily observable fact.
This is why Dan Savage (a gay pro-gay-rights columnist, best featured in the Savage Love article in the back of the Onion newspaper) created SpreadingSantorum and coined the Santorum phrase. Note also that this happened a LONG time before Santorum was even a gleam in the eye of a misguided presidential race.
He got what he deserved, and now that he wants to be the president it's not going to suddenly disappear. He created his froth, he can lie in it.
The Dan Savage 'SpreadingSantorum' site and concept has been around for many years longer than this jackass and his presidential bid. It's also more accurate than his campaign materials as far as what he wants to do to this country, and his electability is correctly reflected at SpreadingSantorum. It's not Google's fault - it's not ANYONE's fault but his own. The results you get are correct, Google is doing it's job.
I was implying the entire process should have only taken three months(from "we have a new screen" to "we're done"). There's planning, and then there's overdoing it.
I can see how this might be plausible (a year, that is) if it includes the time that it took to decide which company to get the screen from, which screen to get, custom CAD work for the product, manufacturing time, and whatever other specific considerations go into an IMAX screen.
Why in the world would it take an entire year to plan hoisting a 800kg screen? That weighs less than my car. A few winches could get it in place without putting even the most fragile screen at risk. I wonder what they did with the other 9 months of that year?
FWIW, I have hung a full-sized non-IMAX screen in about half an hour with zero issues. Not 800kg, but at least 100.
YES!
Also, Penguins.
When the government willfully and encouragingly allows companies to not pay millions in taxes and gives them discounts for shipping jobs overseas, yes, it is the government's responsibility to help the citizens.
How is one citizen going to attack a huge multinational corporation on their peasant's salary(compared to the execs and lawyers of Giantcorp)? How do citizens have any chance to succeed when the government just takes from them and gives it to the already-rich right and left? When the government just takes the highest bribes and does what they say?
At some point, the availability of quality, meaningful work has to be up to the government that presides over its regulation.
Yeah! Quit fighting!
Android already the whole thing.
UK: *long elegant and poignant refusal*
US: "We'll do it, but you have to 'donate' to our campaign funds."
This summary must be incorrect somehow.
I just opened Flight Simulator and had no trouble controlling my flight right into the side of a mountain. Clearly, the system needs work.
Sorry, "We the police want to do less, if possible zero, actual work" is not an acceptable reason for passing national and international copyright legislation.
The terrorists, who are in this case the US Government, have clearly won. They have taken the freedoms which we have been granted and been too glued to American Idol and MTV to defend. The ironic part is that they have used the 'fear of losing our freedom' to take it from us.
The general population are more concerned with celebrity housewives than who is running the country. They have won. We are now a slave population, and those that speak out against it will be detained and perpetually monitored until the powers-that-be determine they have reached their quota of 'unlawful speech' and have them imprisoned, deported, or executed.
Welcome to the future. Welcome to 1984.