Aye, learned that the hard way the first time my RX8 met ice. Pro tip... turn off traction control prior to hitting ice. Your speed will not matter. It would send me into a spin at 20mph.
I purchased a dual core 2ghz computer with 2gigs RAM and a Nvidia 8800 around 2005. I looked at getting a new system and priced it at around 1600$ for what I wanted. Thing is, my computer does fine for all I use it for, including a bit of Skyrim. I just dropped 8gigs into it as an upgrade and am pondering getting a 3ghz+ four core for about 90$. That will push out my purchase of a new system at least a few more years. I own a laptop and an iPhone as well. The iPhone doesn't replace a laptop, and the laptop doesn't replace a desktop. Oh, in the same time that I've had that destop I have purchased 5 iPhones, yes... FIVE iPhones. I don't have to upgrade my desktop every two years, it doesn't get accidentally dropped in the ocean, crushed or flung across the room. Perhaps sales figures are just that, eh?
I started out with slackware and it took about a week to build my workstation how I wanted it (much./configure&&make&&make install). Then I moved to FreeBSD for some time... I know, not Linux... took a day or two to build (much/usr/ports happiness). Then more recently ubuntu and its several hours of install and config to get it "right". I kinda did it all backwards from how a new user might want to go about things.
How about do not track me as an individual, but here is a list provided by my browser of things of which I'm interested. You cannot keep information about me in a DB, but I'll give you access to a DB of interests I have when I visit your site. Hey, I have no fear the "free internet" will collapse... that is straight bullshit. What I have a fear of is being overwhelmed with tampon, chick flick, makeup and my little pony adverts. I would love if all adds were as targeted to my interests as those present here on slashdot. Its no big secret... they know I'm a geek. I can disable the ads here too, but I'm just not motivated to do so as they are never obnoxious and often they are something of interest to me. Still for other sites I don't trust I rock noscript, ghostery and noredirect in firefox to mitigate attempts to cyber stalk me by ad companies.
The desktop I currently use is over 7 years old. I purchased a top end system and it lasted. I will soon buy a new PC that will have 8 cores and 32 gigs of memory (I use VMs). Additionally it will have 6 or so times the graphics power and memory to play games my current system already handles well enough. I might have purchased earlier, but I didn't feel I would have been getting that much more for my investment then I already had. The new system will likely last another 7 or so years. In the time that I have had this current system I have purchased 5 iPhones. I even write this on an iPhone, and it makes me wish I had a keyboard.
Measuring the delta for the subject taught would be a better way of determining a teacher's contribution to a child's education. Proper compensation should be given to teacher's who perform better as an incentive. Art isn't just about making pretty pictures. There is history to it, there is math involved and there are elements that can be tested. True... we can't have an almost blank page that says, "use your #2 pencil to sketch blah blah blah." Still, there are things the students should have learned. Establishing a requirement of what has to be taught outside of the aesthetic shouldn't be that much of a challenge.
One thing you pointed out I found interesting is the number of students in a classroom. As things stand there is currently one "education employee" per 11.6 students. Yet classrooms have 25 - 30+ children. When I was in public school there was only one teacher in the room with us. I realize we need a school nurse, principal, a handful of counselors and attendance staff. Grounds keeps, cafeteria staff and security too! Still, how do we approach this ratio of students to "education employee"? I think it is a case of those who can't, teach. Those who can't teach become school administrators. Often administrators paid more then those in the trenches actually teaching our kids. Due to tenure and unions, in a public server context, we can't clean house at the top.
One might say that these tests themselves create more overhead, but really? How many people does it take to make a standardized test even at the state level? What, Is the scantron so hard to operate that it takes an army to do so? It's obvious that there is excessive administrative overhead, and that takes money not just from our actual educators; the education of our children suffers due to this entitlement. This is why the private sector can due this job more efficiently, and why with each strike the public education system is killing itself. It is a shame as I prefer a school not be a engine for religious indoctrination.
Oh the delicious irony. The faceless, nameless and unscrupulous... yet I believe them before I'll ever believe the likes of Apple or the FBI. See, Anonymous has no reason to lie. The bold truth is just fun enough without needing to embellish.
I miss solo games. I purchased Diablo once I finally had a high speed internet connection (because dealing with logging in over satellite would have sucked). Yup, PAID for it. No desire to go multiplayer and my inability to play it up at the ranch prevented my initial purchase. Sad too... there isn't much to do in places where your best option for internet is satellite. Seems like the area, while sparsely populated, should be a great market for game studios. Downloading a multi gigabyte torrent is unthinkable over satellite. Thing is... it would require game makers take the time to publish DVDs that don't have a hundred outstanding bug fixes that would require a multi gigabyte download. So, no games for you rural world! Fear of piracy and complacency in QA pretty much make studios incapable of serving you.
I do so love my apartment in the city. A shorter commute and the joy of broadband.
They prefer you, RapidShare, to actually going after a moving target. Sure, they take down a whole bunch of people using your service legitimately, but if they had to go after the sites that linked to pirated materials, and more importantly the individuals who are pirating, then⦠well⦠that would be a lot of work!
More nonsense. Exactly what products are they tying together through copyright law and licensing? They tie the products together through functionality and integration.
And yet you trust MS more, even though they are the ones pushing secure boot to prevent you from installing Linux on a brand name PC? Apple actually advertises support for running competitors OSs on their hardware.
Apple is so much better! I think I'm going to go out an by a copy of OSX and run it on my custom built PC! Oh wait, that is right... it is tied to apple hardware and enforced with licensing and copyright. Just ask olde Psystar who tried to circumvent the restriction and found themselves in court over it. Can anyone tell me if you can buy a Mac without OSX and get some of the price knocked off? I don't think you were able to before, but maybe Apple saw the error of their ways. Microsoft may be attempting to lock PCs to their OS, but sort of behavior is nothing new to Apple. Not nonsense, Macs and OSX are tied together at time of purchase.
To both bored_engineer and you I would like to say that I stand corrected.
However I think the PPC and caldav efforts seem a bit self serving at first glance, but I am quite thankful to any company who contributes to OSS.
I guess I was hinting at anything they might have contributed to make Linux run well on this new device prior to release. Yes, I'm quite aware that would be angelic of Apple to do so, and it is way over the top to ask them to do so. Does anyone know if they made information availible to the community to facilitate non-Apple OSS developers attempting to write nessisary drivers for this new device? Even that would be highly commendable.
Don't get me wrong fan boys... Apple does make good gear, and it isn't Apple's fault it doesn't run Linux all that well on this particular device. However despite having a good operating system for a workstation I'm just not a big fan of OSX at home. I use Linux primarily at work and I am quite happy with it. Given the choice between Windows and OSX at work it will be OSX every time. However, I DO have a better choice in workstation OS that more closely mirrors our production servers on which to develop software.
I also don't care much for Apple as a company. I find Microsoft more trustworthy, and that really does say quite a bit.
It would be nice if Apple contributed to Linux. I know that is asking a lot of them as they throughly enjoy tieing two products together by virtue of license and copyright law. It is something they are unfortunately unlikely to change and as a result I try to avoid purchasing their hardware. Much like I will try to avoid any "secure boot" BIOS gear in the future.
How about they just flip their system to not share my information by default. Those who want the telemarketer "feature" can pay the 5 dollars for the elevated costs! Better yet! Give it to them FREE, YEAH! You can make the telemarketer scumbag pay for the list of people who OPT IN!!!
Oh... wait... you already make people pay for the list, don't you. Hmm... I wonder what your motives are then... could it be people opting out is hurting your data sales?
I find often you you turn things on their head it makes it real easy to see the bullshit.
If patents could not be transfered or sold would it mitigate the trolls or would they simply change tactics and invest in "protecting" inventors with legal services for a stake in the outcome of legal procedings. I also wonder if that would be a bad thing if properly regulated to limit their take in gains (less actual costs) to, say 5%. In the end the actual inventor would be compensated instead of being swindled out of a patent for pennies on the dollar because (s)he cannot afford to protect (her)himself.
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creepy.
...please make an in game avatar dead on the ground somewhere so Santiaga can viciously v-bag it repeatedly.
Aye, learned that the hard way the first time my RX8 met ice. Pro tip... turn off traction control prior to hitting ice. Your speed will not matter. It would send me into a spin at 20mph.
I bet it will be just AWESOME on ice!
I'm getting cancer faster just thinking about it.
I purchased a dual core 2ghz computer with 2gigs RAM and a Nvidia 8800 around 2005. I looked at getting a new system and priced it at around 1600$ for what I wanted. Thing is, my computer does fine for all I use it for, including a bit of Skyrim. I just dropped 8gigs into it as an upgrade and am pondering getting a 3ghz+ four core for about 90$. That will push out my purchase of a new system at least a few more years. I own a laptop and an iPhone as well. The iPhone doesn't replace a laptop, and the laptop doesn't replace a desktop. Oh, in the same time that I've had that destop I have purchased 5 iPhones, yes... FIVE iPhones. I don't have to upgrade my desktop every two years, it doesn't get accidentally dropped in the ocean, crushed or flung across the room. Perhaps sales figures are just that, eh?
Just socialist America standing before a socialist backdrop.
I started out with slackware and it took about a week to build my workstation how I wanted it (much ./configure&&make&&make install). Then I moved to FreeBSD for some time... I know, not Linux... took a day or two to build (much /usr/ports happiness). Then more recently ubuntu and its several hours of install and config to get it "right". I kinda did it all backwards from how a new user might want to go about things.
aaaaand POP! ;)
How about do not track me as an individual, but here is a list provided by my browser of things of which I'm interested. You cannot keep information about me in a DB, but I'll give you access to a DB of interests I have when I visit your site. Hey, I have no fear the "free internet" will collapse... that is straight bullshit. What I have a fear of is being overwhelmed with tampon, chick flick, makeup and my little pony adverts. I would love if all adds were as targeted to my interests as those present here on slashdot. Its no big secret... they know I'm a geek. I can disable the ads here too, but I'm just not motivated to do so as they are never obnoxious and often they are something of interest to me. Still for other sites I don't trust I rock noscript, ghostery and noredirect in firefox to mitigate attempts to cyber stalk me by ad companies.
The desktop I currently use is over 7 years old. I purchased a top end system and it lasted. I will soon buy a new PC that will have 8 cores and 32 gigs of memory (I use VMs). Additionally it will have 6 or so times the graphics power and memory to play games my current system already handles well enough. I might have purchased earlier, but I didn't feel I would have been getting that much more for my investment then I already had. The new system will likely last another 7 or so years. In the time that I have had this current system I have purchased 5 iPhones. I even write this on an iPhone, and it makes me wish I had a keyboard.
Measuring the delta for the subject taught would be a better way of determining a teacher's contribution to a child's education. Proper compensation should be given to teacher's who perform better as an incentive. Art isn't just about making pretty pictures. There is history to it, there is math involved and there are elements that can be tested. True... we can't have an almost blank page that says, "use your #2 pencil to sketch blah blah blah." Still, there are things the students should have learned. Establishing a requirement of what has to be taught outside of the aesthetic shouldn't be that much of a challenge.
One thing you pointed out I found interesting is the number of students in a classroom. As things stand there is currently one "education employee" per 11.6 students. Yet classrooms have 25 - 30+ children. When I was in public school there was only one teacher in the room with us. I realize we need a school nurse, principal, a handful of counselors and attendance staff. Grounds keeps, cafeteria staff and security too! Still, how do we approach this ratio of students to "education employee"? I think it is a case of those who can't, teach. Those who can't teach become school administrators. Often administrators paid more then those in the trenches actually teaching our kids. Due to tenure and unions, in a public server context, we can't clean house at the top.
One might say that these tests themselves create more overhead, but really? How many people does it take to make a standardized test even at the state level? What, Is the scantron so hard to operate that it takes an army to do so? It's obvious that there is excessive administrative overhead, and that takes money not just from our actual educators; the education of our children suffers due to this entitlement. This is why the private sector can due this job more efficiently, and why with each strike the public education system is killing itself. It is a shame as I prefer a school not be a engine for religious indoctrination.
Oh the delicious irony. The faceless, nameless and unscrupulous... yet I believe them before I'll ever believe the likes of Apple or the FBI. See, Anonymous has no reason to lie. The bold truth is just fun enough without needing to embellish.
I miss solo games. I purchased Diablo once I finally had a high speed internet connection (because dealing with logging in over satellite would have sucked). Yup, PAID for it. No desire to go multiplayer and my inability to play it up at the ranch prevented my initial purchase. Sad too... there isn't much to do in places where your best option for internet is satellite. Seems like the area, while sparsely populated, should be a great market for game studios. Downloading a multi gigabyte torrent is unthinkable over satellite. Thing is... it would require game makers take the time to publish DVDs that don't have a hundred outstanding bug fixes that would require a multi gigabyte download. So, no games for you rural world! Fear of piracy and complacency in QA pretty much make studios incapable of serving you.
I do so love my apartment in the city. A shorter commute and the joy of broadband.
They prefer you, RapidShare, to actually going after a moving target. Sure, they take down a whole bunch of people using your service legitimately, but if they had to go after the sites that linked to pirated materials, and more importantly the individuals who are pirating, then⦠well⦠that would be a lot of work!
Awesome, pretty much sums up my thoughts on this headline.
It says more about your own personal bias than it does about either company.
True
Like gcc, llvm, samba, cups, apache, etc. Hell, even Chrome has a ton of Apple code in it.
Already conceded (http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3053337&cid=41015277).
More nonsense. Exactly what products are they tying together through copyright law and licensing? They tie the products together through functionality and integration.
And yet you trust MS more, even though they are the ones pushing secure boot to prevent you from installing Linux on a brand name PC? Apple actually advertises support for running competitors OSs on their hardware.
Apple is so much better! I think I'm going to go out an by a copy of OSX and run it on my custom built PC! Oh wait, that is right... it is tied to apple hardware and enforced with licensing and copyright. Just ask olde Psystar who tried to circumvent the restriction and found themselves in court over it. Can anyone tell me if you can buy a Mac without OSX and get some of the price knocked off? I don't think you were able to before, but maybe Apple saw the error of their ways. Microsoft may be attempting to lock PCs to their OS, but sort of behavior is nothing new to Apple. Not nonsense, Macs and OSX are tied together at time of purchase.
LOL, not with this slashdot UID. ;)
To both bored_engineer and you I would like to say that I stand corrected.
However I think the PPC and caldav efforts seem a bit self serving at first glance, but I am quite thankful to any company who contributes to OSS.
I guess I was hinting at anything they might have contributed to make Linux run well on this new device prior to release. Yes, I'm quite aware that would be angelic of Apple to do so, and it is way over the top to ask them to do so. Does anyone know if they made information availible to the community to facilitate non-Apple OSS developers attempting to write nessisary drivers for this new device? Even that would be highly commendable.
Sad... but true.
Don't buy a Mac.
Don't get me wrong fan boys... Apple does make good gear, and it isn't Apple's fault it doesn't run Linux all that well on this particular device. However despite having a good operating system for a workstation I'm just not a big fan of OSX at home. I use Linux primarily at work and I am quite happy with it. Given the choice between Windows and OSX at work it will be OSX every time. However, I DO have a better choice in workstation OS that more closely mirrors our production servers on which to develop software.
I also don't care much for Apple as a company. I find Microsoft more trustworthy, and that really does say quite a bit.
It would be nice if Apple contributed to Linux. I know that is asking a lot of them as they throughly enjoy tieing two products together by virtue of license and copyright law. It is something they are unfortunately unlikely to change and as a result I try to avoid purchasing their hardware. Much like I will try to avoid any "secure boot" BIOS gear in the future.
How about they just flip their system to not share my information by default. Those who want the telemarketer "feature" can pay the 5 dollars for the elevated costs! Better yet! Give it to them FREE, YEAH! You can make the telemarketer scumbag pay for the list of people who OPT IN!!!
Oh... wait... you already make people pay for the list, don't you. Hmm... I wonder what your motives are then... could it be people opting out is hurting your data sales?
I find often you you turn things on their head it makes it real easy to see the bullshit.
On your uber fast missile. I'll be impressed when you can put a human in it without killing him/her.
If patents could not be transfered or sold would it mitigate the trolls or would they simply change tactics and invest in "protecting" inventors with legal services for a stake in the outcome of legal procedings. I also wonder if that would be a bad thing if properly regulated to limit their take in gains (less actual costs) to, say 5%. In the end the actual inventor would be compensated instead of being swindled out of a patent for pennies on the dollar because (s)he cannot afford to protect (her)himself.
Maybe if you didn't spend so much money on drugs you could have a nice car too. You also wouldn't need one to drive your inebriate arse.