These companies can sell you an 8 meg broadband connection, they'll sell it to 100 people and the line they're selling this on is an 80meg connection (example, not right numbers but right point). Any industry that can do this legally (or just get away with it) is clearly going to screw any consumer they can.
The cause of most explosions are explained before they've even been cleaned up (I don't mean, oh, its a bomb, I mean the actual chemicals invlovled etc) even if they are looking at the right thing now, they are shockingly slow at investigating.
"It's 1 year later, and we still don't have a clue waht the hell is going wrong, it could happen again any time, so what we're going to do is blame a relatively cheap component manufactured by a third party and replace it.
So, $500 per 250gigs, so I could buy a PC with 8 times that capacity easily for the same price- but that aside (cos online storage is another ballpark)
Lets look at your options, no added features, only 250gigs and google (I don't trust a corporation that would be handling the majority of searches, a large portion of e-mail, and now all you data! No thanks! Or Dreamhost- Full web server features including SSH and cron- $240 for 291.2gb (Increasing by 2gb weekly) and 2.91tb transfer- a free domain name, and 12000 e-mail addresses at that domain.
I'm sorry, but with all the bulk storage google needs, you would have thought they were not only cost effective, but reliable and know what they're doing... oh well.
Adobe's CEO first calling microsoft a monopolist, name calling, the true sign of a mature, unthreatened CEO- of course they are a monopolist, but it has nothing to do with adobe's market- and if it was, adobe would have no problems because monopolies don't innovate. THen he says he wanders if it is compatible with other OSes, of course it will, most microsoft software is now, of course there may be slight differences like MS office, but it will come out for OS X at the very least.
Okay, first, the old artists taht sell few songs at any given time, but still do constantly sell, no longer get any money. Plus, the industry doesn't make any more money than they do now, cos its capped.
Song costs $0.00 - I buy it Song costs $0.20 - I buy it Song costs $0.40 - I buy it Song costs $0.60 - I buy it Song costs $0.80 - I buy it Song costs $1.00 - I bugger off to the itunes store
Well, I wouldn't, but many people would and you get my point. And this effectively means, this service could never reach the same average sales cost.
Like this guy found a way to make popups in Javascript, and rather than acting responsibly and disclosing it sun and waiting for them to fix it, instead he just came out with it to try and convince people to use no script. It's like those virii that advertise anti-virus programs. I used to use no script but now I've uninstalled it, I am not going to use a program that is made by a guy creating security problems in order to force people into using his software.
Sorry, but a little less bioware player tracking, and EA Games corporate restructuring. Take us back to the days when Bullfrog was making kickass games and stuff.
Isn't it weird when something can be so far from its roots even when its so new.
Alabama- Population- 4,557,808- Electoral College votes - 9 - Votes Per Electoral College Votes- 506,423.11111111111111111111111111 Alaska- Population- 663,661- Electoral College votes - 3 - Votes Per Electoral College Votes- 221,220.33333333333333333333333333
So Basically a person in Alaska has twice the amount of say that a person in Alabama has, that's right, in terms of how your country is run, you vote is worth less than half of what it is worth in Alaska if you are in alabama. And I just took the first two states in the alphabet! Really, now how is that a good system, especially when it gets people like George Bush in power when he lost by the popular vote.
Infact, I haven't done the maths, but I reckon if you worked out all the ratios, that if you positioned your supporters strategically in the states where votes are worth more, you could actually win an election with around 10% less votes than the party with the most votes.
Take a look at newegg.com and places like it, 2gigabytes isn't that unusual. I'm not saying I'd expect them all to have it, but they are high end machines, they should be high end specs in all respects otherwise you're limiting the other aspects.
hehehe, sounded a li'l like the intel chip implanted into his head kicked in there.
second, why is the imac so underpowered in the RAM department, I mean the specs in one of the pictures showed the iMacs, all the way up to the biggest $1800 version only has 1gig- with all the RAM you get in normal PCs now days (4gigabytes not unusual) is this not a little strange?
Finally, is it just me, or have they slighyl repackaged everything, made no huge advances, like for example, why did they bother to minimize a keyboard, which for someone like me, would just be annoying. iLife? It's had nothing added, they just repackaged every single feature, and when asked why.mac doesn't support HD Jobs goes- Well, we do support HD, well actually slightly less than HD- you know what I call not quite HD- NOT HD! Everything just seemed a little small fry.
Another great call for slashdot
Ending an eventful day on a note of sanity, a judge today threw out the jury verdict on Alcatel-Lucent vs. Microsoft and Microsoft no longer has to pony up $1.5 billion. another judge overruled the jury, doesn't democracy give you a warm fuzzy feeling inside.
If you keep bailing out the patent system by having judges rescue the companies with the power you are gonna get stupid hypocrites like Apple's recent statement that the system is fine and no one will change it.
Everyone knew that programmers are unique. Each programmer has his own style and own way of solving problems- which invariably have several solutions. As a result, if you hire lots of people working on the same thing, unless they are experienced as working as a team with the particular people they are working with, there will be lots of translation problems and it'll take a long time to get that understanding. If you hire a few people and they work closely together they can work as a team, understand each other, and over time develop understanding.
One printer isn't going to cause harm, even if you are exposed for long times. However, the office I recently worked in, had about 7 printers for various purposes, and this was an office that used a particularly amount of paper, maybe they should carry out tests in more real conditions- it may not be an issue if you are ina sterile room with a printer, but lets face it, thats not gonna happen.
I blame software developers, if they concentrated on streamlining what they had, rather than just adding features then nobody would build PCs capable of faster processing becasue it was unneeded. I know people would say that people want programs to run faster thats why they get thesehardware upgrades, but really, my Win XP doesn't boot any faster than my win 95 did, and my win Vista boots slower and thats after I bought hardware for it.
It's a totally different thing. The reason is that the hacker case is they are recording people talk about crimes, the talk may or may not be true. The recording you talk about second is an actual recording of a crime taking place-it's a completely different thing. I know many people who would claim to do something illegal if it were socially advantageous (unfortunately that doesn't say much, I'm 16). I would agree that if ABC had gone in with the intention of recording someone actually carry out a crime and had reason to beleive a crime would be committed, that would be true, but instead basically what they were trying to do was talk the people into confessing.
So lets look for a second, they want to learn about what will happen to us when the sun expands in 5billion years. I'll tell you what, we'll either be gone, dead, or evolved into something else, considering meaningful developement of humans has taken place in about a millionth of that time, it doens seem likely that this is meaningless.
Sometimes it just winds me up that we have intelligent people focusing their efforts on things of no immediate consequence when there are far more important things to worry about- that's why I'm betting on the extinction future scenario.
You've never seen any coverage of Mass, have you? It's like Jesus' own personal cult! They way they fawn over every single parable in his gospel is beyond pathetic... it's downright scary.
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These companies can sell you an 8 meg broadband connection, they'll sell it to 100 people and the line they're selling this on is an 80meg connection (example, not right numbers but right point). Any industry that can do this legally (or just get away with it) is clearly going to screw any consumer they can.
The cause of most explosions are explained before they've even been cleaned up (I don't mean, oh, its a bomb, I mean the actual chemicals invlovled etc) even if they are looking at the right thing now, they are shockingly slow at investigating.
"It's 1 year later, and we still don't have a clue waht the hell is going wrong, it could happen again any time, so what we're going to do is blame a relatively cheap component manufactured by a third party and replace it.
But Some Rapscallion has slipped an extra cyllable into the name of your system!
Stellarator? Its somehow wrong
So, $500 per 250gigs, so I could buy a PC with 8 times that capacity easily for the same price- but that aside (cos online storage is another ballpark)
Lets look at your options, no added features, only 250gigs and google (I don't trust a corporation that would be handling the majority of searches, a large portion of e-mail, and now all you data! No thanks!
Or Dreamhost- Full web server features including SSH and cron- $240 for 291.2gb (Increasing by 2gb weekly) and 2.91tb transfer- a free domain name, and 12000 e-mail addresses at that domain.
I'm sorry, but with all the bulk storage google needs, you would have thought they were not only cost effective, but reliable and know what they're doing... oh well.
That keeps itunes back fromt he brink of outright, obvious, monopoly is good in my book, and heck, maybe Real Rhapsody will get some customers back.
I know they can pick up alot of information when you connect to their website, IP, location, but hair pointiness?
Adobe's CEO first calling microsoft a monopolist, name calling, the true sign of a mature, unthreatened CEO- of course they are a monopolist, but it has nothing to do with adobe's market- and if it was, adobe would have no problems because monopolies don't innovate. THen he says he wanders if it is compatible with other OSes, of course it will, most microsoft software is now, of course there may be slight differences like MS office, but it will come out for OS X at the very least.
Okay, first, the old artists taht sell few songs at any given time, but still do constantly sell, no longer get any money. Plus, the industry doesn't make any more money than they do now, cos its capped.
Song costs $0.00 - I buy it
Song costs $0.20 - I buy it
Song costs $0.40 - I buy it
Song costs $0.60 - I buy it
Song costs $0.80 - I buy it
Song costs $1.00 - I bugger off to the itunes store
Well, I wouldn't, but many people would and you get my point. And this effectively means, this service could never reach the same average sales cost.
Like this guy found a way to make popups in Javascript, and rather than acting responsibly and disclosing it sun and waiting for them to fix it, instead he just came out with it to try and convince people to use no script. It's like those virii that advertise anti-virus programs. I used to use no script but now I've uninstalled it, I am not going to use a program that is made by a guy creating security problems in order to force people into using his software.
Sorry, but a little less bioware player tracking, and EA Games corporate restructuring. Take us back to the days when Bullfrog was making kickass games and stuff.
Isn't it weird when something can be so far from its roots even when its so new.
To be fair, its a bit harsh expecting the guys at Sun to meet the minimum system requirements of vista on only their second atttempt at this chip.=)
Alabama- Population- 4,557,808- Electoral College votes - 9 - Votes Per Electoral College Votes- 506,423.11111111111111111111111111
Alaska- Population- 663,661- Electoral College votes - 3 - Votes Per Electoral College Votes- 221,220.33333333333333333333333333
So Basically a person in Alaska has twice the amount of say that a person in Alabama has, that's right, in terms of how your country is run, you vote is worth less than half of what it is worth in Alaska if you are in alabama. And I just took the first two states in the alphabet! Really, now how is that a good system, especially when it gets people like George Bush in power when he lost by the popular vote.
Infact, I haven't done the maths, but I reckon if you worked out all the ratios, that if you positioned your supporters strategically in the states where votes are worth more, you could actually win an election with around 10% less votes than the party with the most votes.
It doesn't matter, its cheaper just to have a big campaign and convince stupid people that the candidate is their best friend.
Take a look at newegg.com and places like it, 2gigabytes isn't that unusual. I'm not saying I'd expect them all to have it, but they are high end machines, they should be high end specs in all respects otherwise you're limiting the other aspects.
first quote: "What about AMD chips?"
.mac doesn't support HD Jobs goes- Well, we do support HD, well actually slightly less than HD- you know what I call not quite HD- NOT HD! Everything just seemed a little small fry.
Steve: "We use Intel chips"
hehehe, sounded a li'l like the intel chip implanted into his head kicked in there.
second, why is the imac so underpowered in the RAM department, I mean the specs in one of the pictures showed the iMacs, all the way up to the biggest $1800 version only has 1gig- with all the RAM you get in normal PCs now days (4gigabytes not unusual) is this not a little strange?
Finally, is it just me, or have they slighyl repackaged everything, made no huge advances, like for example, why did they bother to minimize a keyboard, which for someone like me, would just be annoying. iLife? It's had nothing added, they just repackaged every single feature, and when asked why
If you keep bailing out the patent system by having judges rescue the companies with the power you are gonna get stupid hypocrites like Apple's recent statement that the system is fine and no one will change it.
Everyone knew that programmers are unique. Each programmer has his own style and own way of solving problems- which invariably have several solutions. As a result, if you hire lots of people working on the same thing, unless they are experienced as working as a team with the particular people they are working with, there will be lots of translation problems and it'll take a long time to get that understanding. If you hire a few people and they work closely together they can work as a team, understand each other, and over time develop understanding.
One printer isn't going to cause harm, even if you are exposed for long times. However, the office I recently worked in, had about 7 printers for various purposes, and this was an office that used a particularly amount of paper, maybe they should carry out tests in more real conditions- it may not be an issue if you are ina sterile room with a printer, but lets face it, thats not gonna happen.
I blame software developers, if they concentrated on streamlining what they had, rather than just adding features then nobody would build PCs capable of faster processing becasue it was unneeded. I know people would say that people want programs to run faster thats why they get thesehardware upgrades, but really, my Win XP doesn't boot any faster than my win 95 did, and my win Vista boots slower and thats after I bought hardware for it.
It's a totally different thing. The reason is that the hacker case is they are recording people talk about crimes, the talk may or may not be true. The recording you talk about second is an actual recording of a crime taking place-it's a completely different thing. I know many people who would claim to do something illegal if it were socially advantageous (unfortunately that doesn't say much, I'm 16). I would agree that if ABC had gone in with the intention of recording someone actually carry out a crime and had reason to beleive a crime would be committed, that would be true, but instead basically what they were trying to do was talk the people into confessing.
Screw that, I'm waiting till ittle green men are actually writing the stories themselves.
So lets look for a second, they want to learn about what will happen to us when the sun expands in 5billion years. I'll tell you what, we'll either be gone, dead, or evolved into something else, considering meaningful developement of humans has taken place in about a millionth of that time, it doens seem likely that this is meaningless.
Sometimes it just winds me up that we have intelligent people focusing their efforts on things of no immediate consequence when there are far more important things to worry about- that's why I'm betting on the extinction future scenario.
You've never seen any coverage of Mass, have you? It's like Jesus' own personal cult! They way they fawn over every single parable in his gospel is beyond pathetic... it's downright scary.
Mcafee does similar, but better stuff in anti-virus and I beleive they have backup software too, I haven't tried the backup stuff myself though