I'll take that. At 50 million file sharers and 1,500 grand (minimum) a piece for the ISPs to drop them, how long could the RIAA hold out? And i love a good courtrom brawl, it'd make for funny trials.
In my experience, Vista keep caching long after you've gone to paging file. (Or did, its possible MS fixed this) Even if all it does is move the cache to the paging file, thats still a waste of resources, especially since disk I/O is a big bottleneck.
And maybe congress would think that being deliberately misled about a false enemy attack in order to start said war would constitute the president "breaking the seal of office".
Um, that was Kennedy. Or someone during the Kennedy administration anyway. While it might have been LBJ, that would be unlikely. All this assuming of course, that there was a conspiracy to get us deeper involved in Vietnam, and not just a general fuckup, malice and stupidity etc.
As far as LBJ's and Kennedy's known abuse of power goes...
-- The Kennedy Administration had the FBI wiretap a Congressional staff member , three executive officials, a lobbyist, and a Washington law firm. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy received the fruits of an FBI "tap" on Martin Luther King, Jr. and a "bug" on a Congressman, both of which yielded information of a political nature.
-- President Johnson asked the FBI to conduct "name checks" of his critics and members of the staff of his 1964 opponent, Senator Barry Goldwater. He also requested purely political intelligence on his critics in the Senate, and received extensive intelligence reports on political activity at the 1964 Democratic Convention from FBI electronic surveillance.
From wikipedia. Nixon was hardly the only screwed up president.
even those who would never have paid the full purchase price for one reason or another may still have paid some lower amount to purchase and play the game which they pirated
This seems horribly dishonest. Sure I might be willing to pay 10 dollars for something where I wouldn't pay 50 (and thus become a customer). But how often do price drops that significant happen?
You can't point to any one spot in an embryo's development (except fertilization) and say "There. Now it is human." With that ambiguity, is it not better to err on the side of caution?
slippery slope fallacy. There are no hard an fast lines in most of your life, unless an arbitrary one was made. What's the exact speed at which it becomes unsafe to drive, or at which meat is safe to eat?
Hahaha, seriously? I was about to come in swinging since I've never had an Antec fail on me or any of my end users... but I only install Earthwatts series.
Libertarian isn't one of the wings, under either definition. Politics is not a one dimensional proposition.
The socialist-anarchist meaning of libertarian exists in the US as well, but its archaic, and from my discussions with British political scientists, its archaic there as well.
My server is built from top to bottom with high efficiency parts, and it still consumes 40 watts. I could cut it down to 33 if I took out the backup hard drive.
Though it occurs to me that I'm measuring peak consumption, and you may be claiming the idle power?
No, the model I'm thinking of bases the variation off of solar input variation caused by the earth's orbital/rotation/tilt pattern. We don't, as far as I know, have enough data on what the sun does to include it in prediction models, or models that are means to be applied over geological time scales.
It has to do with orbital patterns of the earth. Which can mostly predict ice cover over earths history, though not when there are shifts in carbon dioxide levels (the last glacial maxima, the cooling 5.6 million years ago, current trends, there are probably others).
Actually, yes, the climate model I've seen pushed around the most does account for solar activity, which is why temperatures aren't expected to start rising again for another ten years.
Also, since I'm pretty sure you were trying to insinuate that global warming is caused by solar activity, I'm going to point out that if you only use that for the modeling, our temperatures should be dropping (overall, not just for this next decade), not raising.
I'm not an EE, but it seems like converting their current fuel-oil generators to hydrogen would be a fairly inexpensive process.
The two have nothing in common. Hydrogen fuel cells are a chemical process, no moving parts (except for hydrogen delivery). You could conceivably make a hydrogen powered combustion engine, but the entire point of hydrogen is that its more efficient, 70% conversion to electricity instead of 20-35% for combustion.
They can't really choose to go to a competitor anymore than they can choose to go to Vista.
A very large corporation can have thousands of applications, every one of them that doesn't work with Linux/Vista/A beowulf cluster of monkeys/OSX is additional cost to switching platforms.
It's not so much Dell taking advantage of the customer as finding a loophole to get XP to the customer despite Microsoft.
The price to get XP was *NEVER* as low as 50 dollars extra (except when it was free). it was 100, minimum. You have to buy a 'professional' class version of Vista to get XP under Microsoft's downgrade program. It only showed as being only 50 dollars when a system with a more expensive minimum version of Vista had the option. It does appear that Dell is now requiring Vista Enterprise instead of Business, I can't say if that one is dictated by MS or Dell though.
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I'll take that. At 50 million file sharers and 1,500 grand (minimum) a piece for the ISPs to drop them, how long could the RIAA hold out? And i love a good courtrom brawl, it'd make for funny trials.
In my experience, Vista keep caching long after you've gone to paging file. (Or did, its possible MS fixed this) Even if all it does is move the cache to the paging file, thats still a waste of resources, especially since disk I/O is a big bottleneck.
Erm, if Java is doing optimizing, why is it slower than my shitty C++ skills?
And maybe congress would think that being deliberately misled about a false enemy attack in order to start said war would constitute the president "breaking the seal of office".
Um, that was Kennedy. Or someone during the Kennedy administration anyway. While it might have been LBJ, that would be unlikely. All this assuming of course, that there was a conspiracy to get us deeper involved in Vietnam, and not just a general fuckup, malice and stupidity etc.
As far as LBJ's and Kennedy's known abuse of power goes...
-- The Kennedy Administration had the FBI wiretap a Congressional staff member , three executive officials, a lobbyist, and a Washington law firm. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy received the fruits of an FBI "tap" on Martin Luther King, Jr. and a "bug" on a Congressman, both of which yielded information of a political nature.
-- President Johnson asked the FBI to conduct "name checks" of his critics and members of the staff of his 1964 opponent, Senator Barry Goldwater. He also requested purely political intelligence on his critics in the Senate, and received extensive intelligence reports on political activity at the 1964 Democratic Convention from FBI electronic surveillance.
From wikipedia. Nixon was hardly the only screwed up president.
even those who would never have paid the full purchase price for one reason or another may still have paid some lower amount to purchase and play the game which they pirated
This seems horribly dishonest. Sure I might be willing to pay 10 dollars for something where I wouldn't pay 50 (and thus become a customer). But how often do price drops that significant happen?
You can't point to any one spot in an embryo's development (except fertilization) and say "There. Now it is human." With that ambiguity, is it not better to err on the side of caution?
slippery slope fallacy. There are no hard an fast lines in most of your life, unless an arbitrary one was made. What's the exact speed at which it becomes unsafe to drive, or at which meat is safe to eat?
Hahaha, seriously? I was about to come in swinging since I've never had an Antec fail on me or any of my end users... but I only install Earthwatts series.
Granted, they might have been vastly underrated for upgrades, but still, two machines! That has to be, like, common?
The big OEMs have some shitty PSUs, second highest failure rate (after the system boards) when I was at Dell.
Libertarian isn't one of the wings, under either definition. Politics is not a one dimensional proposition.
The socialist-anarchist meaning of libertarian exists in the US as well, but its archaic, and from my discussions with British political scientists, its archaic there as well.
And as I pointed out, you lose half the energy burning it.
I very much doubt that.
My server is built from top to bottom with high efficiency parts, and it still consumes 40 watts. I could cut it down to 33 if I took out the backup hard drive.
Though it occurs to me that I'm measuring peak consumption, and you may be claiming the idle power?
No, the model I'm thinking of bases the variation off of solar input variation caused by the earth's orbital/rotation/tilt pattern. We don't, as far as I know, have enough data on what the sun does to include it in prediction models, or models that are means to be applied over geological time scales.
It has to do with orbital patterns of the earth. Which can mostly predict ice cover over earths history, though not when there are shifts in carbon dioxide levels (the last glacial maxima, the cooling 5.6 million years ago, current trends, there are probably others).
Actually, yes, the climate model I've seen pushed around the most does account for solar activity, which is why temperatures aren't expected to start rising again for another ten years.
Also, since I'm pretty sure you were trying to insinuate that global warming is caused by solar activity, I'm going to point out that if you only use that for the modeling, our temperatures should be dropping
(overall, not just for this next decade), not raising.
The law of freedom of speech applies to the people providing it; not necessarily accessing it.
SCOTUS rulings say otherwise, specifically school systems cannot censor libraries for non obscene materials.
I'm not an EE, but it seems like converting their current fuel-oil generators to hydrogen would be a fairly inexpensive process.
The two have nothing in common. Hydrogen fuel cells are a chemical process, no moving parts (except for hydrogen delivery). You could conceivably make a hydrogen powered combustion engine, but the entire point of hydrogen is that its more efficient, 70% conversion to electricity instead of 20-35% for combustion.
Computers are programmable, this only solves the problems it was designed to solve.
We spend more on education than any other major industrial nation
We're the second highest in per student spending, not first. Or third, depending on how to count it.
Free lawyers for all criminal offenses (it used to just be capital crimes) and requiring the cops to give the Miranda warning both come to mind.
Erm, TFS says as much, or did it get changed between your post and me reading it?
I meant that the OP was left wing, not right wing. I suppose he could be libertarian or something, but the 'not right wing' thing stands in that case.
They can't really choose to go to a competitor anymore than they can choose to go to Vista.
A very large corporation can have thousands of applications, every one of them that doesn't work with Linux/Vista/A beowulf cluster of monkeys/OSX is additional cost to switching platforms.
It's not so much Dell taking advantage of the customer as finding a loophole to get XP to the customer despite Microsoft.
The price to get XP was *NEVER* as low as 50 dollars extra (except when it was free). it was 100, minimum. You have to buy a 'professional' class version of Vista to get XP under Microsoft's downgrade program. It only showed as being only 50 dollars when a system with a more expensive minimum version of Vista had the option. It does appear that Dell is now requiring Vista Enterprise instead of Business, I can't say if that one is dictated by MS or Dell though.
stop the right-wing scaremongering
A) Is this the same prime minister who made it illegal to not carry an ID?
B) This is left wing scare mongering.
How much did a VCR cost? I can't imagine justifying that with what a low end DVD players costs today.