It frees us for more fun things, like, uh, using google for porn. Yeah, that's what we were all told. "In the future, robots will do all the work for you and you'll only have to work 20 hours a week."
Instead, if something that used to take 5 hours now takes 1, your boss expects it to be done in 1 hour.
although im a capitalist, im increasingly starting to think that big corporations need a MAJOR whack on their butts so that competition can be a possibility again. And we all thought we were getting a good deal when the 700MHz spectrum was sold...
On election day (since the machine could have an internal clock and work just fine any other day), leave one voting machine alone, and at the end of the day, cast your ballot on it (this may be necessary to "activate" it).
Then check the machine and see if your vote was counted correctly.
Amazon makes you re-enter the complete credit card number if you ship to a new address. What a horrible inconvenience! You should be able to buy it with one click!
So people downloaded the Rock Band version (since it came out first), realized it sucked and didn't bother to get the amazon or itunes version? In other news, more people started using Internet Explorer when it came with Windows.
I'm 24, and maybe it's just me, but 2007 was a horrible year for music. So, because of that, and also due to me making some older friends since graduating from college, I've been getting into some of the older bands (Def Leppard, Aerosmith, Boston, Journey, Billy Idol, and of course, the Crue).
Slashdotting a music service that is essentially nothing but a denial of service (a.k.a. sham), which effectively puts it out of service for a while. Click Here!
Yup, happens all the time. A free market exists and thrives, then suddenly the government comes in and decides the product or service it provides is something people "need," and then regulates it, artificially increasing demand through subsidies and/or barring competitors.
What exactly was unreliable? Would it crash and have to be rebooted? Did it drop packets or introduce high latency?
The only problem I have with it is that its QOS controls don't seem to work. When I run BitTorrent and eMule and play CS, my pings still go to shit. (And I've increased the maximum number of established connectios to 4096 so that's not the issue.)
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Instead, if something that used to take 5 hours now takes 1, your boss expects it to be done in 1 hour.
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Perhaps they changed it before they installed Windows.
In XP, it's just a plain text file on the CD.
Nuclear power plants run Windows NT?
No wonder we have such a N.I.M.B.Y. problem with them.
Now our only choices will be AT&T and Verizon.
I for one welcome our new corporate overlords!
On election day (since the machine could have an internal clock and work just fine any other day), leave one voting machine alone, and at the end of the day, cast your ballot on it (this may be necessary to "activate" it).
Then check the machine and see if your vote was counted correctly.
So all of the inflation makes the $2 trillion deficit really more like a $300 billion deficit.
See, it all works out.
I hope to God we don't get a democrat in the white house *and* a democratic congress.
The reason republicans are so corrupt is because there haven't been as many checks and balances as there should be.
If oil prices are higher, it's because there is more demand for it. Ergo, more carbon emissions.
Yes, let's make those jocks sleep in the gym!
How about...redirecting ifpi.org to piratebay!
Oh wait, that's also been done.
Yeah but the record companies don't make any money off of that, which is what the GP was looking for.
I'm 24, and maybe it's just me, but 2007 was a horrible year for music. So, because of that, and also due to me making some older friends since graduating from college, I've been getting into some of the older bands (Def Leppard, Aerosmith, Boston, Journey, Billy Idol, and of course, the Crue).
The 'boomers are kicking our asses, indeed.
Why not instead just flag the material meeting this criteria as obscene and allow parents to block it when they sign up with an ISP?
Yup, happens all the time. A free market exists and thrives, then suddenly the government comes in and decides the product or service it provides is something people "need," and then regulates it, artificially increasing demand through subsidies and /or barring competitors.
5) Edit his hosts file and redirect foxnews.com to /., google.com to goatse, etc.
6) Put a piece of tape over the ball/sensor of his mouse
7) Take a screenshot of his desktop, delete all the icons, and make the screenshot his wallpaper.
...we still don't get the chicks. "Hey Chris...I'm lost. Can you help me with my math homework?""Sure, here's what you do"
"Oh, thanks! Now I have time to have sex with my boyfriend!" *runs away*
Kids, the next time a girl asks you for help with your math homework, tell her the square root of 2 is pi.
What exactly was unreliable? Would it crash and have to be rebooted? Did it drop packets or introduce high latency?
The only problem I have with it is that its QOS controls don't seem to work. When I run BitTorrent and eMule and play CS, my pings still go to shit. (And I've increased the maximum number of established connectios to 4096 so that's not the issue.)
One assumption you are all making is that he owns all 500 meters of the land between his place and his friend's place.
If you want to go the wireless route, I've had good luck with the antenna "amplifier" I built from this site.