But, if you want to download your operating system from a completely unknown and untrusted source, go right ahead.
Granted, TPB would probably link you to the same torrent, but why would you take the risk? Because you find searching, poring over a search list, and deciding on one that looks safe is a more efficient use of your time than just going to the source's torrents?
The shiny hasn't got significantly better, but in areas which actually matter, the UI has actually improved significantly. Task switching is largely seamless. Granted, that's largely a hardware thing, but the fact that I can do several downloads while working on something else, while my computer does an antivirus scan (ok that last part might be a bad idea) is a significant UI improvement.
Also, there are more subtle things. Have you used Windows 95 recently? I've used a few apps that were coded for 95, and you can see a lot of the usability gaps shining through from the less-mature APIs. Unable to properly minimize, hard to resize certain text boxes, crap that overflows off the edge of the screen when the text gets too large... Things have gotten better.
I think the real issue is that a good bus system and $400 dollar rents are mutually exclusive propositions. Anywhere you can get $400 dollar rent, you need a car to get to work.
Well, it depends on what you're looking for. If don't want it to be seen, you just use porn mode.
If you want to hide it except when you need it, you should make a separate profile. Or use an entirely different browser. I tend to use a separate browser for banking. That keeps it very hidden from the casual intruder if you take the shortcuts off.
The only uses for more than 4 gb of RAM are niche uses. Until there's some breakthrough app that makes the inability to use 4gb+ on the desktop anything more than a slight inconvenience (oh no you have to swap if you load 8 movies and 200 Firefox tabs) there's no real reason to force an upgrade. The hardware and software are sufficient. Even for video, given the rate that HD access times are decreasing, RAM is not much of an issue.
Yes, 32-bit offers other benefits, but they're not really that compelling at the moment.
Really? I'm posting this from a 32-bit legacy computer that runs 32-bit Ubuntu just fine. I've got a 'legacy' machine on the right with XP and an Nvidia GForce 5600, also 32 bit, that is even more useful, being a Pentium. You are about 4 years too early to even begin to talk about end-of-life for 32 bit.
I couldn't really find numbers, but I supect ditching 32 bit would entail throwing out at least half of the computers currently in use...
I don't have the numbers to back it up, but I'm fairly certain that a sufficiently large portion of computers use 32-bit to make your presumption completely infeasible for the next few years. They were still selling 32-bit machines two years ago, and people can't reasonably be expected to retire those machines until 2011, and many will still be perfectly useful until 2013 or even 2015 with a few repairs.
Meanwhile, you can keep on living in your fantasy world where hardware can magically upgrade itself to run the latest and greatest software.
I haven't played either game, but it seems evident to me that EVE has a much more complex economy than Asheron's Call, and that gold trading screws with the economy considerably. There are no individual servers, any user's actions affects every other user. Market instability is a real issue for playability.
And in any case, the drain on the servers caused by bots requires significant infrastructure increases.
What exactly do you need clarified? The first sentence says exactly what it does, it predicts flight delay times. The rest talks about the tools used to do it. And though the tools are perhaps overhyped, referring to the tools isn't really a buzzword, just a statement of fact. Now, if the summary had said something along the lines of
"Flight delayed again? Shoulda asked FlightCaster, a new site leveraging the power of the cloud to provide real-time statistical analysis of flight delays. It uses a combination of cutting-edge tools to do its magic. The filesystem uses the infinitely scalable redundant Hadoop cloud storage filesystem. The software itself is written in the dynamic AI language Clojure, which is a dialect of LISP. The web front-end combines magic of the Ruby on Rails framework with the Web 2.0 grandeur of Heroku.
Now that is so laden with buzzwords I can't even understand what it says, and I wrote it. The summary is fairly good. The Buzzword-compliant bit was just poking fun at the fact that Rails and Hadoop have buzzwords thrown around them all the time.
Well, to get more to the point, what answer do they have for our troops in Iraq, Afghanistan, and who knows where else who would like to play a quiet LAN game when internet access is limited or nonexistent.
Also, what kind of ports are required, given that a lot of college students are behind restrictive campus firewalls.
For a final question on this LAN issue, will the game be playable at all if your battle.net account is banned? This is probably a fitting punishment for hacking and the like, but false positives are inevitable, and I don't really want to put down $50 for something if, on a whim, Blizzard can revoke my license.
The GP was specifically talking about HIPPA and the like. So if you work at a school or a hospital, no matter how small, the cops are going to need really strong evidence to get away with that.
Exactly. And that will make the required expenditures much higher when they can no longer be wished away, so any reductions now are money in the bank for that later time.
I said it's not about alien apartheid. My point was that the parent's griping about the what the fact that these are aliens changes isn't really that significant, since the film is only superficially about aliens. It is about South Africa (and apartheid is a central part of South Africa, but it has nothing to do with aliens.)
You're wrong. In fact, one of the real strengths of the movie is that both the white people and the black people involved are inherently self-interested and capable of huge atrocities. Even the aliens come off as wretched individuals (though you don't really see them do anything that isn't unjustified.)
It isn't about alien apartheid. It's about South Africa.
Sure, but the new ones are shit. I'm probably going to cry when my mid-80's digital alarm clock gives out. You can't get them with a proper circuit board any more, they're all printed boards that will die pretty quickly.
Actually, I'm not that far from those days, and I remember how much caffeine my peers intook. I don't drink pop, and I only rarely drink coffee. But I wasn't really disputing that teenagers need more sleep - just that the disparity between the cited requirement of 8-8.5 hours of sleep and the GP's 6 hours or less was likely the result of stimulant intake.
It doesn't matter. If there are materials to build solar panels, and some other materials that we can feed the solar panels to create fuel, the Moon would be an excellent source of fuel. Imagine 3 robotic modules: 1 is a module factory, 1 is a solar module, and one is a mining module. Maybe a 4th that builds delivery tanks to shoot to Earth. The potential for growth without destroying Terran resources is huge.
It's a ways off in the future, but really, I haven't described much that shouldn't be possible in the next 5 years - just very expensive, prohibitively so for commercial interests.
How much caffeine do you drink per day? I think a lot of the disparity is due to the fact that we (rightly) keep younger people from using caffeine and other stimulants.
The researchers in the article specifically pointed out that though a lot of people regularly get by with 6 hours of sleep, they do this using stimulants, not an innate propensity for less sleep.
Yes, satellites are more and more commerical, but that's why NASA needs to be focusing on ways to get out of Earth orbit. And the result of starting a mining colony on the Moon would be huge, much like the huge advantages (which you so quickly dismiss) of Satellite communications.)
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No, but this removes one avenue of attack. We really aren't doing enough to stop them at the moment.
Or you could just use the torrent page.
But, if you want to download your operating system from a completely unknown and untrusted source, go right ahead.
Granted, TPB would probably link you to the same torrent, but why would you take the risk? Because you find searching, poring over a search list, and deciding on one that looks safe is a more efficient use of your time than just going to the source's torrents?
The shiny hasn't got significantly better, but in areas which actually matter, the UI has actually improved significantly. Task switching is largely seamless. Granted, that's largely a hardware thing, but the fact that I can do several downloads while working on something else, while my computer does an antivirus scan (ok that last part might be a bad idea) is a significant UI improvement.
Also, there are more subtle things. Have you used Windows 95 recently? I've used a few apps that were coded for 95, and you can see a lot of the usability gaps shining through from the less-mature APIs. Unable to properly minimize, hard to resize certain text boxes, crap that overflows off the edge of the screen when the text gets too large... Things have gotten better.
And let's not even talk about stability.
I think the real issue is that a good bus system and $400 dollar rents are mutually exclusive propositions. Anywhere you can get $400 dollar rent, you need a car to get to work.
In addition to these benefits, the company also offers world peace, satellite launches, and ponies.
It's a Doctor Who reference. Read a few more comments.
And, it's sort of a common Sci-Fi conceit (which we see mirroring science fact.) The impossible is usually possible.
Well, it depends on what you're looking for. If don't want it to be seen, you just use porn mode.
If you want to hide it except when you need it, you should make a separate profile. Or use an entirely different browser. I tend to use a separate browser for banking. That keeps it very hidden from the casual intruder if you take the shortcuts off.
The only uses for more than 4 gb of RAM are niche uses. Until there's some breakthrough app that makes the inability to use 4gb+ on the desktop anything more than a slight inconvenience (oh no you have to swap if you load 8 movies and 200 Firefox tabs) there's no real reason to force an upgrade. The hardware and software are sufficient. Even for video, given the rate that HD access times are decreasing, RAM is not much of an issue.
Yes, 32-bit offers other benefits, but they're not really that compelling at the moment.
Really? I'm posting this from a 32-bit legacy computer that runs 32-bit Ubuntu just fine. I've got a 'legacy' machine on the right with XP and an Nvidia GForce 5600, also 32 bit, that is even more useful, being a Pentium. You are about 4 years too early to even begin to talk about end-of-life for 32 bit.
I couldn't really find numbers, but I supect ditching 32 bit would entail throwing out at least half of the computers currently in use...
I don't have the numbers to back it up, but I'm fairly certain that a sufficiently large portion of computers use 32-bit to make your presumption completely infeasible for the next few years. They were still selling 32-bit machines two years ago, and people can't reasonably be expected to retire those machines until 2011, and many will still be perfectly useful until 2013 or even 2015 with a few repairs.
Meanwhile, you can keep on living in your fantasy world where hardware can magically upgrade itself to run the latest and greatest software.
I haven't played either game, but it seems evident to me that EVE has a much more complex economy than Asheron's Call, and that gold trading screws with the economy considerably. There are no individual servers, any user's actions affects every other user. Market instability is a real issue for playability.
And in any case, the drain on the servers caused by bots requires significant infrastructure increases.
What exactly do you need clarified? The first sentence says exactly what it does, it predicts flight delay times. The rest talks about the tools used to do it. And though the tools are perhaps overhyped, referring to the tools isn't really a buzzword, just a statement of fact. Now, if the summary had said something along the lines of
Now that is so laden with buzzwords I can't even understand what it says, and I wrote it. The summary is fairly good. The Buzzword-compliant bit was just poking fun at the fact that Rails and Hadoop have buzzwords thrown around them all the time.
All Flash = I see none of them.
Well, to get more to the point, what answer do they have for our troops in Iraq, Afghanistan, and who knows where else who would like to play a quiet LAN game when internet access is limited or nonexistent.
Also, what kind of ports are required, given that a lot of college students are behind restrictive campus firewalls.
For a final question on this LAN issue, will the game be playable at all if your battle.net account is banned? This is probably a fitting punishment for hacking and the like, but false positives are inevitable, and I don't really want to put down $50 for something if, on a whim, Blizzard can revoke my license.
The GP was specifically talking about HIPPA and the like. So if you work at a school or a hospital, no matter how small, the cops are going to need really strong evidence to get away with that.
Exactly. And that will make the required expenditures much higher when they can no longer be wished away, so any reductions now are money in the bank for that later time.
I think you have them confused with IBM.
I said it's not about alien apartheid. My point was that the parent's griping about the what the fact that these are aliens changes isn't really that significant, since the film is only superficially about aliens. It is about South Africa (and apartheid is a central part of South Africa, but it has nothing to do with aliens.)
You're wrong. In fact, one of the real strengths of the movie is that both the white people and the black people involved are inherently self-interested and capable of huge atrocities. Even the aliens come off as wretched individuals (though you don't really see them do anything that isn't unjustified.)
It isn't about alien apartheid. It's about South Africa.
Fixed that for you.
Sure, but the new ones are shit. I'm probably going to cry when my mid-80's digital alarm clock gives out. You can't get them with a proper circuit board any more, they're all printed boards that will die pretty quickly.
Except the battery will be all but dead...
Actually, I'm not that far from those days, and I remember how much caffeine my peers intook. I don't drink pop, and I only rarely drink coffee. But I wasn't really disputing that teenagers need more sleep - just that the disparity between the cited requirement of 8-8.5 hours of sleep and the GP's 6 hours or less was likely the result of stimulant intake.
It doesn't matter. If there are materials to build solar panels, and some other materials that we can feed the solar panels to create fuel, the Moon would be an excellent source of fuel. Imagine 3 robotic modules: 1 is a module factory, 1 is a solar module, and one is a mining module. Maybe a 4th that builds delivery tanks to shoot to Earth. The potential for growth without destroying Terran resources is huge.
It's a ways off in the future, but really, I haven't described much that shouldn't be possible in the next 5 years - just very expensive, prohibitively so for commercial interests.
How much caffeine do you drink per day? I think a lot of the disparity is due to the fact that we (rightly) keep younger people from using caffeine and other stimulants.
The researchers in the article specifically pointed out that though a lot of people regularly get by with 6 hours of sleep, they do this using stimulants, not an innate propensity for less sleep.
Satellites => Cell phones, GPS, Google Earth...
Yes, satellites are more and more commerical, but that's why NASA needs to be focusing on ways to get out of Earth orbit. And the result of starting a mining colony on the Moon would be huge, much like the huge advantages (which you so quickly dismiss) of Satellite communications.)