Streaming over broadband isn't a viable option in many countries. Here in Australia an internet plan that allows you to download anything around 25 gigs is considered generous. Now, for the Aunt Jane who thinks the internet is the IE icon on her desktop, who has a 5 gig limit and 3 grandsons who want to watch movies all night, do you think she would go with the option of renting out some physical media, or streaming the videos?
Now you may have the hypothesis that by the time we are streaming HD over broadband there will be no cap.. I doubt that. Australia isn't getting better anytime soon.
Guild wars had it because it was instanced. I completed the original guild wars and the two expansions, it is a good game but the instancing for it stops you from being really immersed, it also stop you from meeting potential people who may be in another instance as you doing the same quest. It is almost impossible to find a group for the small quests you can get in the game, which is where those NPCs come in to play, but then it really doesnt feel like it is an MMO.
Trying to get the public, the mainstream, to start using 'cracker' instead of 'hacker' may not end well for some. The next time a group of black guys yell, "Hey what you looking at cracker?", a cs student may think they are actually complimenting his/her computer skills and approach them to thank them for their kind words.
I tried that and ended up in the emergency ward after being group beaten by all the fucking hags' husbands and the stupid bitches' boyfriends. I knew there were plenty of laws prohibiting them from damaging my internal organs, but they didn't seem to care.
I remember thinking Mario Kart 64 had great graphics, would I say that now? Hell no. The reason being is that you compare it to what is out there at the moment.
Humans have a ranking system, if there is something better than the current best, then that gets moved down, until it has moved so far down it isn't even worth considering and is ultimately 'shit'. When the first car was created it was thought of as fast, now you watch an episode of top gear and whenever an old car is used it is basically laughed at.
It is a natural cycle.
They do this in the Army as well, it's bullshit. On the obstacle course women don't even have to climb the walls, they can simply run around them, because they are women. Also, a large percentage of women are unable to throw grenades far enough so they do not hurt themselves! Oh well, I guess the enemy will be easier on them since they are women.
It doesn't just stop at women, it's also anti-white, if you are white, tough luck, you don't get any help. What's that? You are black? Oh in that case welcome to this university, it doesn't matter that your scores are less than the white candidates, because, hell, you are black! Do you see this type of bullshit in other countries? Nope. The west has this shit shoved down their throats and all we do is sit and take it. I am sure if a large percentage of whites decided to live in China and create their own societies, not learn the traditions/culture, speak in English and basically refuse to assimilate there would be genocide.
I'd mod you if I could. I didn't mean to stereotype so blantantly but really I haven't the slightest idea about the middle east, except for the obvious conflict between Israel and Palestine, where I actually support Palestine, but that's another discussion for another day.
I got my information from here.
"400/500 MHz Samsung 2442B Processor/SOC (400 minimum, ARM920T core, ARMv4T)"
I may also be incorrect about the processor speed of the iphone, for the 3G it may only be 620.
Anyways point wasn't to get the exact specs of the phone, was just stating that they were quite close.
Though I am not a fan of the appearance, it is quite a powerful phone, with a 500mhz processor, which is not quite as powerful as the 700mhz processor on the iphone, but still decent nevertheless. Ofcourse, the benefiting factor being that it is open source, where as the iphone is not. It will be a great time when we are able to buy a phone, with the basic functionality installed, then choose what particular software we want to add on the phone, for free. The main problem with phones today is that there is really no way that the community can fix or improve the software without complications, but if the company is actually encouraging open source software to be developed they will provide the necessary tools (APIs etc) for the community to do these improvements themselves, saving them money in the process. It also appears that more phone companies are starting to follow this open source trend, but will probably still keep their strangle hold on their customer base by using DRM and SIM locks, you can read the article here. Openmoko are definitely in the right direction, I wish them much success.
You can create many interesting hypothesises from viewing those download statistics. For example, why does Iraq have only 1,754 downloads, compared to Iran which has 535,796? Do you think this is mainly due to the war on Iraq? As you would assume that the cultures were quite similar that their would not be a huge difference between them software wise. Or am I just stereotyping? One hypothesis is that 'there is a directly proportional relationship between the percentage of the population that downloaded firefox and the standard of living', or it could be just that their is preferred browser in that area, similar to preferred IMs in different parts of the world. China has 1 billion people in population and just over 700k downloaded the browser.. yep, time to stop rambling and get back to work.
This is why it is a bad idea to create a site solely in flash. One my colleagues developed a site that was just done in flash, and search engines barely rank it, even if you search for the site name in google. However, as pointed out earlier on/. this may not be so much of a problem later on. Here is the article.
The Dala Lama claims he wants to keep Tibetan peoples' culture and he is opposed to them becoming the minority. Look at the US, multiculturalism is forced down our throats, and if we complain, yep, we are racists. Look who is becoming the minority in the US. I am not saying that the cruelty towards Tibetans is acceptable, what I am saying is that there was an out cry when a large percentage of outsiders started migrating there, but hey we are forced to just accept it. Ofcourse I will be flamed, but hey I see things for how they are. Flame on.
I live in Perth dude, after living in the UK, then moving to Sydney, then finally Perth. I have also traveled extensively throughout the UK, Europe and the US and have never thought, 'Hey, I would rather live here'. From my house it is a 5 minute drive to the beach, where I surf often, a 10 minute drive into the city (that is during peak hour for work) and all the pubs/clubs are nearby. There is nothing else I need.
I am only 21 now and have a nice job as a web developer, and when I get enough experience I will move (maybe to London) for a more fast paced environment, but for someone who wants to start a family, or just wants to live in a relaxing environment, it is the perfect place.
I am from Perth, and this story never really made a big deal in the news, I learnt more here than I did from the snippet on the news. I actually have a good mate who works at that rug store and he never even told me about this, don't think it has really registered at all over here.
I agree with a lot of you. I hate going to my friend's page on facebook and writing on their wall which takes 10 minutes to scroll to usually because they are retarded and have just experienced the internet first hand and think they are being internet savvy by installing every application possible. I actually created a group on facebook called "The number of facebook applications owned is inversely proportional to intelligence", feel free to join.
Most nice guys are used as intellectual whores. Basically this means that whenever a girl gets in an argument with their boyfriend, they will go complain to their intellectual whore, who thinks by listening to her whine will get him in bed with her, when he is sadly mistaken.
"An Intellectual Whore is a man who a woman keeps around for intellectual purposes. She is uninterested in him sexually and considers him a friend. He probably wants to sleep with her, so he pretends to be her friend in the hope of one day getting sex." Link Here, it appears to be down at the moment.
I knew Mozilla was attempting to beat the world record, so wondered to myself why they didn't make it an automatic update from firefox2 -> firefox3. I then found out it would not be compatible with all OS, including windows 98, and some of the plug-ins (as I have personally experienced) will not work without a few tweaks, if at all. It is a pain in the ass they didn't but I guess that is how it is. As a web developer it is the bane of my existence to ensure that a website looks and functions correctly in ie5, ie6, ie7, opera, safari and firefox.. now I have to worry about firefox2 and firefox3.. *sigh*
Having to maintain a token-ring network in a poultry plant? THAT was the absolute worst
Did you ever tell your boss that the network was down because the token leaked out and the chickens ate it? Hahaha, how did the above comment get a rating of insightful?
I swear, half my friends sound like Neanderthals after their 10th or so drink. Heck, get my friend's mobiles and listen to any of the messages I left on their phone at 3am.
"He says the ancient human's speech lacked the
'quantal vowel'".. yep sounds about right.
Sounds like he needs to get laid. Get the number for the cheapest escort you can find, preferably young looking, get her to burst into his office, let him have 30 minutes of bliss (He will probably only need 1, but not sure you can get allocated 1 minute time slot). When she leaves and he walks back out later and thinks noone is the wiser, approach him and whisper, "Man can't believe you are banging the boss's daughter - if he finds out you are history."
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Hey, least now it could be legitimate to tell a girl that you are studying to become a Jedi.
Streaming over broadband isn't a viable option in many countries. Here in Australia an internet plan that allows you to download anything around 25 gigs is considered generous. Now, for the Aunt Jane who thinks the internet is the IE icon on her desktop, who has a 5 gig limit and 3 grandsons who want to watch movies all night, do you think she would go with the option of renting out some physical media, or streaming the videos? Now you may have the hypothesis that by the time we are streaming HD over broadband there will be no cap .. I doubt that. Australia isn't getting better anytime soon.
Guild wars had it because it was instanced. I completed the original guild wars and the two expansions, it is a good game but the instancing for it stops you from being really immersed, it also stop you from meeting potential people who may be in another instance as you doing the same quest. It is almost impossible to find a group for the small quests you can get in the game, which is where those NPCs come in to play, but then it really doesnt feel like it is an MMO.
Trying to get the public, the mainstream, to start using 'cracker' instead of 'hacker' may not end well for some. The next time a group of black guys yell, "Hey what you looking at cracker?", a cs student may think they are actually complimenting his/her computer skills and approach them to thank them for their kind words.
I tried that and ended up in the emergency ward after being group beaten by all the fucking hags' husbands and the stupid bitches' boyfriends. I knew there were plenty of laws prohibiting them from damaging my internal organs, but they didn't seem to care.
Who stores blobs in a database anymore? Why not just store the location of the file?
I remember thinking Mario Kart 64 had great graphics, would I say that now? Hell no. The reason being is that you compare it to what is out there at the moment. Humans have a ranking system, if there is something better than the current best, then that gets moved down, until it has moved so far down it isn't even worth considering and is ultimately 'shit'. When the first car was created it was thought of as fast, now you watch an episode of top gear and whenever an old car is used it is basically laughed at. It is a natural cycle.
They do this in the Army as well, it's bullshit. On the obstacle course women don't even have to climb the walls, they can simply run around them, because they are women. Also, a large percentage of women are unable to throw grenades far enough so they do not hurt themselves! Oh well, I guess the enemy will be easier on them since they are women. It doesn't just stop at women, it's also anti-white, if you are white, tough luck, you don't get any help. What's that? You are black? Oh in that case welcome to this university, it doesn't matter that your scores are less than the white candidates, because, hell, you are black! Do you see this type of bullshit in other countries? Nope. The west has this shit shoved down their throats and all we do is sit and take it. I am sure if a large percentage of whites decided to live in China and create their own societies, not learn the traditions/culture, speak in English and basically refuse to assimilate there would be genocide.
I'd mod you if I could. I didn't mean to stereotype so blantantly but really I haven't the slightest idea about the middle east, except for the obvious conflict between Israel and Palestine, where I actually support Palestine, but that's another discussion for another day.
I got my information from here. "400/500 MHz Samsung 2442B Processor/SOC (400 minimum, ARM920T core, ARMv4T)" I may also be incorrect about the processor speed of the iphone, for the 3G it may only be 620. Anyways point wasn't to get the exact specs of the phone, was just stating that they were quite close.
Though I am not a fan of the appearance, it is quite a powerful phone, with a 500mhz processor, which is not quite as powerful as the 700mhz processor on the iphone, but still decent nevertheless. Ofcourse, the benefiting factor being that it is open source, where as the iphone is not. It will be a great time when we are able to buy a phone, with the basic functionality installed, then choose what particular software we want to add on the phone, for free. The main problem with phones today is that there is really no way that the community can fix or improve the software without complications, but if the company is actually encouraging open source software to be developed they will provide the necessary tools (APIs etc) for the community to do these improvements themselves, saving them money in the process. It also appears that more phone companies are starting to follow this open source trend, but will probably still keep their strangle hold on their customer base by using DRM and SIM locks, you can read the article here. Openmoko are definitely in the right direction, I wish them much success.
You can create many interesting hypothesises from viewing those download statistics. For example, why does Iraq have only 1,754 downloads, compared to Iran which has 535,796? Do you think this is mainly due to the war on Iraq? As you would assume that the cultures were quite similar that their would not be a huge difference between them software wise. Or am I just stereotyping? One hypothesis is that 'there is a directly proportional relationship between the percentage of the population that downloaded firefox and the standard of living', or it could be just that their is preferred browser in that area, similar to preferred IMs in different parts of the world. China has 1 billion people in population and just over 700k downloaded the browser .. yep, time to stop rambling and get back to work.
This is why it is a bad idea to create a site solely in flash. One my colleagues developed a site that was just done in flash, and search engines barely rank it, even if you search for the site name in google. However, as pointed out earlier on /. this may not be so much of a problem later on. Here is the article.
It is the same over here in Australia. This is the first I have ever heard that in the US you pay for msg/calls you receive. How ridiculous.
The Dala Lama claims he wants to keep Tibetan peoples' culture and he is opposed to them becoming the minority. Look at the US, multiculturalism is forced down our throats, and if we complain, yep, we are racists. Look who is becoming the minority in the US. I am not saying that the cruelty towards Tibetans is acceptable, what I am saying is that there was an out cry when a large percentage of outsiders started migrating there, but hey we are forced to just accept it. Ofcourse I will be flamed, but hey I see things for how they are. Flame on.
I live in Perth dude, after living in the UK, then moving to Sydney, then finally Perth. I have also traveled extensively throughout the UK, Europe and the US and have never thought, 'Hey, I would rather live here'. From my house it is a 5 minute drive to the beach, where I surf often, a 10 minute drive into the city (that is during peak hour for work) and all the pubs/clubs are nearby. There is nothing else I need. I am only 21 now and have a nice job as a web developer, and when I get enough experience I will move (maybe to London) for a more fast paced environment, but for someone who wants to start a family, or just wants to live in a relaxing environment, it is the perfect place.
I am from Perth, and this story never really made a big deal in the news, I learnt more here than I did from the snippet on the news. I actually have a good mate who works at that rug store and he never even told me about this, don't think it has really registered at all over here.
Actually it is called "Number of FB applications owned is inversely proportional to intelligence." They did not allow many characters in the title.
I agree with a lot of you. I hate going to my friend's page on facebook and writing on their wall which takes 10 minutes to scroll to usually because they are retarded and have just experienced the internet first hand and think they are being internet savvy by installing every application possible. I actually created a group on facebook called "The number of facebook applications owned is inversely proportional to intelligence", feel free to join.
Most nice guys are used as intellectual whores. Basically this means that whenever a girl gets in an argument with their boyfriend, they will go complain to their intellectual whore, who thinks by listening to her whine will get him in bed with her, when he is sadly mistaken. "An Intellectual Whore is a man who a woman keeps around for intellectual purposes. She is uninterested in him sexually and considers him a friend. He probably wants to sleep with her, so he pretends to be her friend in the hope of one day getting sex." Link Here, it appears to be down at the moment.
I knew Mozilla was attempting to beat the world record, so wondered to myself why they didn't make it an automatic update from firefox2 -> firefox3. I then found out it would not be compatible with all OS, including windows 98, and some of the plug-ins (as I have personally experienced) will not work without a few tweaks, if at all. It is a pain in the ass they didn't but I guess that is how it is. As a web developer it is the bane of my existence to ensure that a website looks and functions correctly in ie5, ie6, ie7, opera, safari and firefox .. now I have to worry about firefox2 and firefox3 .. *sigh*
I swear, half my friends sound like Neanderthals after their 10th or so drink. Heck, get my friend's mobiles and listen to any of the messages I left on their phone at 3am. "He says the ancient human's speech lacked the 'quantal vowel'" .. yep sounds about right.
Sounds like he needs to get laid. Get the number for the cheapest escort you can find, preferably young looking, get her to burst into his office, let him have 30 minutes of bliss (He will probably only need 1, but not sure you can get allocated 1 minute time slot). When she leaves and he walks back out later and thinks noone is the wiser, approach him and whisper, "Man can't believe you are banging the boss's daughter - if he finds out you are history."
I have to concur.