72KB wouldn't be big enough to store the extracted text captions from a single movie. It's too small for a single photo or a single record album compressed in MP3 or AAC.
You probably can't find a current OS or even a single application that can fit in such a small space.
> They want to sell shitty pictures, taken by shitty camera phones
It's the proverbial million monkeys typing on a million typewriters. Except the output actually has some chance of being useful.
Your silly attempt at pretense doesn't really alter that.
Selecting what's useful MIGHT be a problem. However the entire point of this service is probably to efficiently sort through the dreck. So it's already a non-problem.
The service was just waiting for someone crass enough to properly exploit it.
In the context of the times, the 2nd amendment basically meant you getting together with your neighbors and practicing close order drill and marksmanship. The offer of FREE BEER was a common incentive to attend your local militia gathering.
The militia was no more organized than "the guys from my homeowners association". That's opposed to the HOA itself. An HOA is far more organized and regimented.
> Why exactly do you feel someone has the intrinsic right to a weapon which can kill many people in seconds?
The world is a dangerous place. ANY firearm useful for self defense or even civilian police work is going to satisfy the "can kill many people in seconds" criteria.
Your eagerness to ignore the law also ignores the practical realities of the situation, especially in light of "The drug war". Meanwhile, I can't by Nyquil anymore because some idiots are worried it might get turned into meth.
They have tried to insulate themselves from much of the real world that others have to face daily. That doesn't make it all go away. It just leaves you unprepared when it finally catches up to you.
Perhaps people in "big cities" are a little more vigilant.
Pretty much anyone can be "diagnosed" with something. It's not just Aspergers.
This is one good reason to never trust anyone that calls themselves a mental health professional. You never know when the Soviet or McCarthy era abuses will begin again.
I've had a "deleted" yahoo account get hacked and used for spam/malware. It was "deleted" the first time the account got hacked and was used for spam/malware. It had been in disuse for years before it was hacked the first time and afterwards. After the 2nd time the account was hacked, I deleted each one of my accounts as well as "deleting" the account itself.
I'm waiting for the day that that account comes back from the dead again.
Apple fanboys like to gloss over that part: the actual end user requirements.
They may be far less than what is warranted for an overpriced token of conspicuous consumption. They could also be far more interesting than what can be done with something that's crippled in the name of ease of use.
What's the user going to do with it? That's the most important question.
> You mean people who recognize that others have better things to do than waste their time learning a needlessly complex device?
THEN DON'T USE ONE AT ALL.
It would be considered an obvious conclusion if we were talking about any other device but it seems to be a total taboo if we're talking about computing.
People like you are why cars kill more children than guns.
AOL and Yahoo accounts tend to get hacked. It's best just to avoid those services entirely. You also have to acknowledge the possibility that yes it is YOUR email service that got hacked rather than the victims.
I thought it rather insightful of the "n00b" that the originating account could have been hacked. I also found the dismissiveness of the "expert" to be unwarranted.
...which does fuckall for forged headers or any other subtle form of phishing that depends on stupid people being complacent.
If you're a Mac user kidding yourself in this manner, then you are the proverbial old geezer that has no social defense mechanisms against telemarketers.
eReaders are dirt cheap. They can probably be considered a loss leader. They're there to enable the sale of content. They are the proverbial razor handle. They will likely never go away because of this.
They simply don't need to compete as an independent product.
So market forces likely won't cause them to go away.
That kind of stuff tends to be really bad quality, over compressed, and relatively small. It's simply not going to be big enough to be that bothersome.
Raw HD Terrestrial broadcasts on the other hand can be quite huge. Sometimes even old SD shows are broadcast in a format that uses more storage than a raw DVD rip while being lower quality.
My own recording stuff would be about 25% as effective if I weren't using a solution that compresses to h264.
10TB or 20TB is really not that much once HD video is in the picture.
Most people simply don't realize how BIG stuff is. You seem to be one of them.
No. The absurdity is in conflating laws that criminalize owning a particular thing with laws that victimize others. Victimizing others generally is the sort of thing that is always wrong and harmful rather than just wrong and harmful in a vanishingly small (but spectacular) number of cases.
There is no logic in it. You might as well ban cars and backyard pools next. You will get much more mileage out of either of those.
This "ban them" meme is just the result of a what in a movie would be some hysterical female character screaming at the male lead "do something". Then he goes and does something stupid just be seen "doing something".
It's been done before. So start digging up some statistics.
There's no need to GUESS at this sort of thing. In the past, kids have brought their guns to school. They didn't carry them around the halls like some sort of liberal dystopian fantasy. There is precedent here.
There's no need to guess. You can look this stuff up. See how the numbers work out.
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Other people buy Big Macs and Fords too...
That just means that they have no clue, or no taste, or just buy things based on some sort of conspicuous consumer herd mentality.
72KB wouldn't be big enough to store the extracted text captions from a single movie. It's too small for a single photo or a single record album compressed in MP3 or AAC.
You probably can't find a current OS or even a single application that can fit in such a small space.
It's no longer 1980. Imagine that?
Your nostalgia was outdated even by 1990.
"I have altered the bargain. Pray that I don't alter it any further."
> They want to sell shitty pictures, taken by shitty camera phones
It's the proverbial million monkeys typing on a million typewriters. Except the output actually has some chance of being useful.
Your silly attempt at pretense doesn't really alter that.
Selecting what's useful MIGHT be a problem. However the entire point of this service is probably to efficiently sort through the dreck. So it's already a non-problem.
The service was just waiting for someone crass enough to properly exploit it.
In the context of the times, the 2nd amendment basically meant you getting together with your neighbors and practicing close order drill and marksmanship. The offer of FREE BEER was a common incentive to attend your local militia gathering.
The militia was no more organized than "the guys from my homeowners association". That's opposed to the HOA itself. An HOA is far more organized and regimented.
> Why exactly do you feel someone has the intrinsic right to a weapon which can kill many people in seconds?
The world is a dangerous place. ANY firearm useful for self defense or even civilian police work is going to satisfy the "can kill many people in seconds" criteria.
Your eagerness to ignore the law also ignores the practical realities of the situation, especially in light of "The drug war". Meanwhile, I can't by Nyquil anymore because some idiots are worried it might get turned into meth.
Yeah, there's that. The guy had a rifle with slugs that can go through steel quite readily.
...assuming he didn't do that before he employed the hammer.
They have tried to insulate themselves from much of the real world that others have to face daily. That doesn't make it all go away. It just leaves you unprepared when it finally catches up to you.
Perhaps people in "big cities" are a little more vigilant.
You should read the DSM-IV sometime.
Pretty much anyone can be "diagnosed" with something. It's not just Aspergers.
This is one good reason to never trust anyone that calls themselves a mental health professional. You never know when the Soviet or McCarthy era abuses will begin again.
> So you don't have any competent Windows administrators? That's all I got out of this.
This tends to be the result when you tell everyone that you don't have to understand what you are doing and that you aren't going to get paid squat.
When you encourage everyone to believe that you can run Microsoft products with "cheap idiots", then that's what you will end up with.
The smart ones will get themselves a Unix cert and move up in the world.
Windows delivers vendor lock.
It is the thing most compatible to itself so it does best at dealing with the network effects that other Microsoft products generate.
Beyond that, it demonstrates itself less able to scale well enough to solve the sorts of big problems that large corporations tend to have.
Microsoft in corporations is a manifestation of the "msword problem".
I've had a "deleted" yahoo account get hacked and used for spam/malware. It was "deleted" the first time the account got hacked and was used for spam/malware. It had been in disuse for years before it was hacked the first time and afterwards. After the 2nd time the account was hacked, I deleted each one of my accounts as well as "deleting" the account itself.
I'm waiting for the day that that account comes back from the dead again.
It all depends on the requirements.
Apple fanboys like to gloss over that part: the actual end user requirements.
They may be far less than what is warranted for an overpriced token of conspicuous consumption. They could also be far more interesting than what can be done with something that's crippled in the name of ease of use.
What's the user going to do with it? That's the most important question.
> You mean people who recognize that others have better things to do than waste their time learning a needlessly complex device?
THEN DON'T USE ONE AT ALL.
It would be considered an obvious conclusion if we were talking about any other device but it seems to be a total taboo if we're talking about computing.
People like you are why cars kill more children than guns.
AOL and Yahoo accounts tend to get hacked. It's best just to avoid those services entirely. You also have to acknowledge the possibility that yes it is YOUR email service that got hacked rather than the victims.
I thought it rather insightful of the "n00b" that the originating account could have been hacked. I also found the dismissiveness of the "expert" to be unwarranted.
...which does fuckall for forged headers or any other subtle form of phishing that depends on stupid people being complacent.
If you're a Mac user kidding yourself in this manner, then you are the proverbial old geezer that has no social defense mechanisms against telemarketers.
eReaders are dirt cheap. They can probably be considered a loss leader. They're there to enable the sale of content. They are the proverbial razor handle. They will likely never go away because of this.
They simply don't need to compete as an independent product.
So market forces likely won't cause them to go away.
My local iFan ended up using an e-ink reader. She likes it a lot better. It is smaller, better suited to reading, and has killer battery life.
She started out with an iPad.
It's a bogus question probably written from the point of view from some fanboy ninny that things that "Apple is inevitable".
That kind of stuff tends to be really bad quality, over compressed, and relatively small. It's simply not going to be big enough to be that bothersome.
Raw HD Terrestrial broadcasts on the other hand can be quite huge. Sometimes even old SD shows are broadcast in a format that uses more storage than a raw DVD rip while being lower quality.
My own recording stuff would be about 25% as effective if I weren't using a solution that compresses to h264.
10TB or 20TB is really not that much once HD video is in the picture.
Most people simply don't realize how BIG stuff is. You seem to be one of them.
> What part of "gun related" don't you understand?
You are abusing the numbers to suit your own political agenda.
It doesn't really matter how you try to spin it.
The first step to gaining the moral high ground in an argument is to NOT LIE.
Those countries likely never had much of a history of people having any freedom at all or the ability to own things in general.
No. The absurdity is in conflating laws that criminalize owning a particular thing with laws that victimize others. Victimizing others generally is the sort of thing that is always wrong and harmful rather than just wrong and harmful in a vanishingly small (but spectacular) number of cases.
There is no logic in it. You might as well ban cars and backyard pools next. You will get much more mileage out of either of those.
This "ban them" meme is just the result of a what in a movie would be some hysterical female character screaming at the male lead "do something". Then he goes and does something stupid just be seen "doing something".
Body armor doesn't get rid of the kinetic energy of a bullet.
Plus, you can always aim for the head.
It's been done before. So start digging up some statistics.
There's no need to GUESS at this sort of thing. In the past, kids have brought their guns to school. They didn't carry them around the halls like some sort of liberal dystopian fantasy. There is precedent here.
There's no need to guess. You can look this stuff up. See how the numbers work out.