It's all part of the "Green economy" so get to building those new transformers so those coal fired power plants can get the power to where it needs to be.
And? This is true with all boycotts... and part of the goal of the boycott. You don't want to just reduce BP's profits, you also want to make people employed there leave and go elsewhere. Not only do they lose money, they lose talent to. I personally don't give a shit about how well my local gas station owner is doing.
Dark Energy and Dark Matter have pretty much proven that Scientists don't have a clue as to whats going on. Not saying there IS a big crunch but our understanding of the expansion and possible collapse of the universe is definitely missing some rather large puzzle pieces.
How many people that have never seen a Coyote in their life can reply to this article with ridiculous misinformation? Coyotes are larger in northern Canada, but even there are never larger than a medium sized dog (50lbs or so) The ones in the Wisconsin/Illinois area are slightly larger than a cat... less than 20lbs. They eat mostly mice, birds and maybe rats. Cats are way too large for your average Coyote, and even if they were to target a cat, cats can easily avoid them simply by going vertical. Coyotes can't climb. They things are completely harmless unless you have chickens. If you have chickens, they can be a total pain in your ass.
I welcome whatever legal device they think is going to stop file sharing. The only affect it will have is pushing the open source community to whatever will eventually replace torrenting even faster.
What I was talking about was the difference between a $500 fridge and a $5000 fridge. What you're talking about is a $10,000,000 prototype that you'd spend several years developing and have no support for when the MRI pulls the fillings out of your wifes head.
Most likely it all got deleted, but was originally copied over from paperwork (I doubt they were storing records in a computer back then) So they're all probably furiously re-entering the data by hand, not realizing a scanner and a little help from google could get it done in a few hours.
An apple computer Compared to the Mona Lisa. Now I've heard everything. Lets not forget that there were many other computer manufactures around at the time producing hardware superior to anything apple was doing and most of them went on to be far far more successful than apple. I know apple markets itself has this giant global computer manufacturer but the fact of the matter is they make toys for people with too much money to show of to their friends. Every product they make has a competing products that are superior, cheaper and more popular. This constant misnomer that somehow apple has the lead on anything in relation to technology drives me crazy. It's all marketing. There were smartphones better than the iphone long before the iphone was released. They're called blackberries. Now, after the fact, there are even more... and again, they are better, cheaper, and more popular.
Because the buying and maintaining the equipment and lines that run to your house cost a telco around $20/month. That price is the same if you have a voice line, a 56k line, a 10Mb line or a gigabit connection. On top of that cost you have your badwidth costs, profit margin, local taxes, etc. So the bandwidth is only a part of the total cost. When you have a much slower connection all that overhead takes up a lot more of the bill than it does when you have this ultra high speed line. $20-$30 of your bill is hardware, maintinance, and tax related irrelevent of the speed. So it's more like saying the 15meg line is costing you $20 for bandwith and the 150meg line is costing you $170.
Yeah, but the cases in which your hardware would no longer be supported, it's going to be on fairly old equipment (5-10years) which, for the most part, people are using as servers, firewalls, routers, etc... I wouldn't be turning on daily updates on a device like that. Worst case, if you built a computer for a relative they use just to check their mail. But again, I wouldn't turn on updates unless I were there to monitor it.
Think of it like this. You have metric ass-tons of money. Your counter-tops cost $20k. The floors another $10k. You have a cook, a housekeeper. Your cupboards are filled with food imported from all over the world. Now you need a fridge... The biggest thing in your kitchen is going to be the least expensive? Are you going to go to bestbuy to pick it out? No. So there are these sorts of appliances that seem crazy to a normal person but really are just and excuse to pour money into a device so it doesn't devalue the room in which it resides.
They broke Minnesota law by lying to him. The job did not really exist, simple as that. The verdict was for Punitive Damages "compensation in excess of actual damages - a form of punishment awarded in cases of malicious or willful misconduct" not Liability damages "compensation for actual damages"
having built these... I can say that a DIY car computer can do ANYTHING you want. Stuff you couldn't even dream of on an ipad. Can you program the Ipad to start the car? Unlock the doors from your cellphone? I have a truck that I use for rock crawling. I've got sensors that can detect the current angle the trucks leaning and audibly warn me if I'm in danger of rolling. It can read information directly from the cars engine and tell you if somethings wrong. You can install accelerometers to sense impact and call emergency services if you want. You can install wifi, share the drive in your car on your home network so when you walk inside you can download data, upload maps, music, movies... Of course almost all this stuff has to be pieced together, the software's in dozens of different open source beta projects... etc... etc.. But really, in my experience Ipads are for Doctors and Dentists with little to no computer savvy that just want to mount their Ipad in their Prius and show off to their employees.
At some point someone needs to tell the insurance companies that they are in business to provide INSURANCE against risk. If the consumer has no risk to insure against, their services are kind of pointless.
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It's all part of the "Green economy" so get to building those new transformers so those coal fired power plants can get the power to where it needs to be.
Good! Maybe one the shit blows up they can replace the 50 year old hardware that's been causing brownouts in California since the early 80s.
You know, when Ireland did this, there was a lot of talk here in the US about doing the same. Not sure if anyone remembers that.
Hippies. They say they want to change the world, but all they do is smoke pot and smell bad.
And? This is true with all boycotts... and part of the goal of the boycott. You don't want to just reduce BP's profits, you also want to make people employed there leave and go elsewhere. Not only do they lose money, they lose talent to. I personally don't give a shit about how well my local gas station owner is doing.
The article was posted on a Canadian website. The fact that Canadians were involved would be of immediate interest to their readers.
Dark Energy and Dark Matter have pretty much proven that Scientists don't have a clue as to whats going on. Not saying there IS a big crunch but our understanding of the expansion and possible collapse of the universe is definitely missing some rather large puzzle pieces.
"The world continues to chase apple -- probably for the better."
When did Slashdot become a forum for apple fanboys?
How many people that have never seen a Coyote in their life can reply to this article with ridiculous misinformation? Coyotes are larger in northern Canada, but even there are never larger than a medium sized dog (50lbs or so) The ones in the Wisconsin/Illinois area are slightly larger than a cat... less than 20lbs. They eat mostly mice, birds and maybe rats. Cats are way too large for your average Coyote, and even if they were to target a cat, cats can easily avoid them simply by going vertical. Coyotes can't climb. They things are completely harmless unless you have chickens. If you have chickens, they can be a total pain in your ass.
I welcome whatever legal device they think is going to stop file sharing. The only affect it will have is pushing the open source community to whatever will eventually replace torrenting even faster.
He's using the Martian calendar silly.
What I was talking about was the difference between a $500 fridge and a $5000 fridge. What you're talking about is a $10,000,000 prototype that you'd spend several years developing and have no support for when the MRI pulls the fillings out of your wifes head.
Well played my friend. Well played.
Most likely it all got deleted, but was originally copied over from paperwork (I doubt they were storing records in a computer back then) So they're all probably furiously re-entering the data by hand, not realizing a scanner and a little help from google could get it done in a few hours.
An apple computer Compared to the Mona Lisa. Now I've heard everything. Lets not forget that there were many other computer manufactures around at the time producing hardware superior to anything apple was doing and most of them went on to be far far more successful than apple. I know apple markets itself has this giant global computer manufacturer but the fact of the matter is they make toys for people with too much money to show of to their friends. Every product they make has a competing products that are superior, cheaper and more popular. This constant misnomer that somehow apple has the lead on anything in relation to technology drives me crazy. It's all marketing. There were smartphones better than the iphone long before the iphone was released. They're called blackberries. Now, after the fact, there are even more... and again, they are better, cheaper, and more popular.
Because the buying and maintaining the equipment and lines that run to your house cost a telco around $20/month. That price is the same if you have a voice line, a 56k line, a 10Mb line or a gigabit connection. On top of that cost you have your badwidth costs, profit margin, local taxes, etc. So the bandwidth is only a part of the total cost. When you have a much slower connection all that overhead takes up a lot more of the bill than it does when you have this ultra high speed line. $20-$30 of your bill is hardware, maintinance, and tax related irrelevent of the speed. So it's more like saying the 15meg line is costing you $20 for bandwith and the 150meg line is costing you $170.
Yeah, but the cases in which your hardware would no longer be supported, it's going to be on fairly old equipment (5-10years) which, for the most part, people are using as servers, firewalls, routers, etc... I wouldn't be turning on daily updates on a device like that. Worst case, if you built a computer for a relative they use just to check their mail. But again, I wouldn't turn on updates unless I were there to monitor it.
Think of it like this. You have metric ass-tons of money. Your counter-tops cost $20k. The floors another $10k. You have a cook, a housekeeper. Your cupboards are filled with food imported from all over the world. Now you need a fridge... The biggest thing in your kitchen is going to be the least expensive? Are you going to go to bestbuy to pick it out? No. So there are these sorts of appliances that seem crazy to a normal person but really are just and excuse to pour money into a device so it doesn't devalue the room in which it resides.
Definitely. It's not like anything short of a meteor strike or a nuke could sink one.
And the price of the cargo will go up. Nothing will change about how it got here.
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They broke Minnesota law by lying to him. The job did not really exist, simple as that. The verdict was for Punitive Damages "compensation in excess of actual damages - a form of punishment awarded in cases of malicious or willful misconduct" not Liability damages "compensation for actual damages"
having built these... I can say that a DIY car computer can do ANYTHING you want. Stuff you couldn't even dream of on an ipad. Can you program the Ipad to start the car? Unlock the doors from your cellphone? I have a truck that I use for rock crawling. I've got sensors that can detect the current angle the trucks leaning and audibly warn me if I'm in danger of rolling. It can read information directly from the cars engine and tell you if somethings wrong. You can install accelerometers to sense impact and call emergency services if you want. You can install wifi, share the drive in your car on your home network so when you walk inside you can download data, upload maps, music, movies... Of course almost all this stuff has to be pieced together, the software's in dozens of different open source beta projects... etc... etc.. But really, in my experience Ipads are for Doctors and Dentists with little to no computer savvy that just want to mount their Ipad in their Prius and show off to their employees.
OMG YOUR RIGHT! I Just got chrome rims my warenty is ruined! ;-)
At some point someone needs to tell the insurance companies that they are in business to provide INSURANCE against risk. If the consumer has no risk to insure against, their services are kind of pointless.