You realize that downloading torrents involves uploading as well, unless you've gone out of your way to configure your client to act in a very "selfish" mode that doesn't serve the downloader's interests...right?
I was just thinking this morning about an incident many years ago when a rich old dude who owned MS stock lost his shit at me when I talked about the practical necessity of pirating a copy of Windows as a broke 3rd-world teenager, calling me an entitled brat who didn't deserve to have it because I couldn't pay for it (keep in mind that in those days there was really no other practical desktop OS). I should simply have refrained from using any computers to stay within the rules, he argued in effect.
I thought to myself, that is one of the most ridiculous and silly things that I have ever experienced. This rich old man blasting a poor kid for subverting the rules of the silly game that made him rich, in a way that harmed exactly no-one. But it shouldn't be funny, his worldview was monstrous, horrible, a level of hyper-selfishness that transcends physical wealth and extends to symbolism.
To think that I had enough respect for that guy that I didn't respond...I should have told that disgusting man to go fuck himself immediately.
Well if one of the pharma-mega-corps has the patents on the HepC treatment and a different company comes up with the cure...they'd love to make some money and cut off a competitor's money supply wouldn't they?
You joke but I actually saw arguments along these lines not long after the 2008 economic crash. People worried that if the CEOs of the banks that took government loans didn't get obscene bonuses as usual, it would pressure other banks which weren't bailed out to do the same and that would be un-capitalist government interference.
I should really make a locked-down *nix appliance that secures devices behind a keyfile-secured VPN or SSH tunnel and requires cryptknock before allowing access, and a software suite (like PuTTy and some scripts) to make connecting easy from a Windows computer, and then sell the setup for a ridiculously high price calling them "unbreakable infrastructure security terminals."
If that big dumb idiot who ran HBGary can be a rich executive, why not me?
Can I use a short-throw projector like the ones that would be in phones? If so the only problem would be privacy. I assume I'm doing CLI work since I don't get a mouse, but if I needed a pointing device a mouse or touchpad (like a phone's touchscreen) could work well.
Nope, my QR code reader app doesn't open the website immediately, it shows you the contents first (therefore no goatse/malware-by-QR). The QR code itself contained a link to the homepage.
1. Intelligent species learns to use fossil fuels at a massive scale before becoming collectively intelligent enough to manage their use 2. Species burns every last trace of them until an unstoppable extinction event is triggered 3. Rotting organic matter returns to petrochemicals 4. New intelligent species arises 5. Return to step 1
I find the iPad is also too thin. There's definitely a lower limit where decreased thickness no longer makes sense. The tapered edges (to give the illusion of even lower thickness) sure don't help.
You can have big screens without a big phone, just make the phone take up more of the screen's face (and with a landscape slider, you can still have a full keyboard). Plus pretty soon the higher-end phones will all have projectors in them anyways.
My phones have actually been going down in size since the early 2000s. My Treo 650 was the same size or maybe a bit smaller than my Treo 180, and my N900 is a bit smaller than my Treo 650. The only time size went up is when I went from a dumb phone (some cheapo Motorola) to a PDA-phone (Treo 180).
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In a libertarian utopia, this is the kind of vehicle you'd drive every day!
See Facebook, the iOS app store and AOL.
Because it ran mostly on Ethernet, created by Xerox. Conservative logic!
Why not go back to DuPont or whoever made the raw materials for the Ethernet lines then?
It was Al Gore, duh.
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Question answered.
You realize that downloading torrents involves uploading as well, unless you've gone out of your way to configure your client to act in a very "selfish" mode that doesn't serve the downloader's interests...right?
I was just thinking this morning about an incident many years ago when a rich old dude who owned MS stock lost his shit at me when I talked about the practical necessity of pirating a copy of Windows as a broke 3rd-world teenager, calling me an entitled brat who didn't deserve to have it because I couldn't pay for it (keep in mind that in those days there was really no other practical desktop OS). I should simply have refrained from using any computers to stay within the rules, he argued in effect.
I thought to myself, that is one of the most ridiculous and silly things that I have ever experienced. This rich old man blasting a poor kid for subverting the rules of the silly game that made him rich, in a way that harmed exactly no-one. But it shouldn't be funny, his worldview was monstrous, horrible, a level of hyper-selfishness that transcends physical wealth and extends to symbolism.
To think that I had enough respect for that guy that I didn't respond...I should have told that disgusting man to go fuck himself immediately.
Well if one of the pharma-mega-corps has the patents on the HepC treatment and a different company comes up with the cure...they'd love to make some money and cut off a competitor's money supply wouldn't they?
Someone will probably brute-force it first.
He totally did!
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LOLOLOLOL XD
Whoa I'm biased towards buying Kingston memory now.
You joke but I actually saw arguments along these lines not long after the 2008 economic crash. People worried that if the CEOs of the banks that took government loans didn't get obscene bonuses as usual, it would pressure other banks which weren't bailed out to do the same and that would be un-capitalist government interference.
There's no hope for you guys, sorry.
I should really make a locked-down *nix appliance that secures devices behind a keyfile-secured VPN or SSH tunnel and requires cryptknock before allowing access, and a software suite (like PuTTy and some scripts) to make connecting easy from a Windows computer, and then sell the setup for a ridiculously high price calling them "unbreakable infrastructure security terminals."
If that big dumb idiot who ran HBGary can be a rich executive, why not me?
Still it should have been spelled "There're no"
A few years ago, Gattaca was rated the most realistic sci-fi movie by NASA. Keep that in mind everyone.
Yeah nothing that can't be cleaned up with a hex editor and a small script.
Can I use a short-throw projector like the ones that would be in phones? If so the only problem would be privacy. I assume I'm doing CLI work since I don't get a mouse, but if I needed a pointing device a mouse or touchpad (like a phone's touchscreen) could work well.
Nope, my QR code reader app doesn't open the website immediately, it shows you the contents first (therefore no goatse/malware-by-QR). The QR code itself contained a link to the homepage.
the source of the warming is the phenomenon which you don't understand.
You would have made a very clever analogy if not for this part which is totally wrong.
I think the giant ice blocks falling into the ocean are part of the problem...
Sure it is!
1. Intelligent species learns to use fossil fuels at a massive scale before becoming collectively intelligent enough to manage their use
2. Species burns every last trace of them until an unstoppable extinction event is triggered
3. Rotting organic matter returns to petrochemicals
4. New intelligent species arises
5. Return to step 1
You know what, I'm not even sure I'm joking now.
I find the iPad is also too thin. There's definitely a lower limit where decreased thickness no longer makes sense. The tapered edges (to give the illusion of even lower thickness) sure don't help.
You can have big screens without a big phone, just make the phone take up more of the screen's face (and with a landscape slider, you can still have a full keyboard). Plus pretty soon the higher-end phones will all have projectors in them anyways.
My phones have actually been going down in size since the early 2000s. My Treo 650 was the same size or maybe a bit smaller than my Treo 180, and my N900 is a bit smaller than my Treo 650. The only time size went up is when I went from a dumb phone (some cheapo Motorola) to a PDA-phone (Treo 180).