Comcast, for all its evil, is starting to test IPv6 in certain areas, and they are running their own 6to4 relays now. Which is good, because before I had to use a university relay out in the midwest somewhere, despite being in VA. Their core network already supports IPv6.
Maybe they have gotten cheaper (I haven't done the research), but are still more expensive than HDDs? Maybe HDDs have more fierce competition? Could there be supply problems? Those are but a few ideas I've come up with off the top of my head.
If space is what you crave, get an SSD + a big old platter drive. Put your OS on the SSD and all those big honking media files on the HDD. That's what I've done for my desktop. Laptop users will not have the luxury of two internal drives in many cases.
There are ARM powered netbooks out there. Some of them can be had for about 100 bucks. Case in point: here's one for $108. I bet it's only a matter of time till we get one with a PowerVR or the likes.
Most of my friends still run XP; I only know two who are running anything else. My girlfriend is on Vista, and one of my friends is on 7. Windows 7 is being picked up, but mainly by getting new hardware, at least in my circle.
IIRC, a 32-bit process, even under Windows * 64 bit can still only address 2 GB of RAM, and I still haven't seen much in the way of 64 bit games. I thought it was going to take off when the likes of HL2 and FarCry added 64-bit support, but I haven't noticed too many titles with 64 bit binaries.
I don't know about cheaper, but it's probably easier to make pretty explosions than come up with a good script. Also, there are people who just want pretty explosions and don't care about script at all.
Being ignorant of any olive branches Obama extended to the right, where did he try to meet them halfway? The only place where he seems to be meeting the right (or going further) is in his ramping up of the war in Afghanistan and some of his campaign rhetoric on Iran and Pakistan.
Not everyone who opposed Bush, his wars, etc. was a member of the left. There are plenty of libertarians who opposed it all, and some of them can also be found in the various conspiracy theory movements (eg 9/11 truthers). Many of those libertarians continue to oppose the wars, even though most of the left has moved on now that there's a new president.
Most of those farmers were armed, and it was those armed dirt poor farmers who fought in the Continental Army to oust the British. If anything, I'd have been more worried then than now. They tarred and feathered people for the lamest of infractions against rights. We roll over and play dead when they declare us to be enemy combatants and lock us away without trial.
Of course, back then currency was a title to a certain amount of shiny metals, and there's no need for an extra special law to protect against forgeries. Fraud should cover it, and nothing in the Constitution could be construed as permitting fraud. Having a representation of a coin, bill, seal, etc. etc. is not fraudulent, and making it so is like what states used to do with the magical seal of the King/Emperor/God-incarnate/etc.
We used to. In the era of Andrew Jackson and co., you could just walk right on in. You could even attempt to kill him if you wish. Just make sure you get his cane first...
Lots of these now offlimits offices, houses, etc. used to be freely accessible to the people who paid for them.
It's funny that in my state (Virginia) I can walk into a gun dealership and buy a semi-auto rifle, yet I can't have a switchblade. I can also get a concealed carry permit to carry around a handgun, but concealing a stiletto is not OK. IIRC, if you can find one old enough, you can still get automatic weapons. I would comment on the logic of this, but then again, this is Congress we are talking about.
Those things are still relevant, though not to the same extent. I am careful with space when I write networking code, possibly at the level that someone from 1987 was.
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Comcast, for all its evil, is starting to test IPv6 in certain areas, and they are running their own 6to4 relays now. Which is good, because before I had to use a university relay out in the midwest somewhere, despite being in VA. Their core network already supports IPv6.
Unless you also count EUI-64, then there are ~3.4 x 10^30 addresses.
Maybe they have gotten cheaper (I haven't done the research), but are still more expensive than HDDs? Maybe HDDs have more fierce competition? Could there be supply problems? Those are but a few ideas I've come up with off the top of my head.
If space is what you crave, get an SSD + a big old platter drive. Put your OS on the SSD and all those big honking media files on the HDD. That's what I've done for my desktop. Laptop users will not have the luxury of two internal drives in many cases.
There are ARM powered netbooks out there. Some of them can be had for about 100 bucks. Case in point: here's one for $108. I bet it's only a matter of time till we get one with a PowerVR or the likes.
Most of my friends still run XP; I only know two who are running anything else. My girlfriend is on Vista, and one of my friends is on 7. Windows 7 is being picked up, but mainly by getting new hardware, at least in my circle.
The compatibility mode isn't perfect; there are things that break with it.
IIRC, a 32-bit process, even under Windows * 64 bit can still only address 2 GB of RAM, and I still haven't seen much in the way of 64 bit games. I thought it was going to take off when the likes of HL2 and FarCry added 64-bit support, but I haven't noticed too many titles with 64 bit binaries.
Yep, IIRC they weren't even based on the same rendering engine. I wonder who thought that that was a good idea....
I don't know about cheaper, but it's probably easier to make pretty explosions than come up with a good script. Also, there are people who just want pretty explosions and don't care about script at all.
I agree with the GP. It's good and all, but is it as amazingly awesome as our culture makes it out to be? I don't think so.
I have a Droid for that purpose.
I knew it! Now all we need is someone to upvote me to counteract it! Now, has anyone seen my meds?
Being ignorant of any olive branches Obama extended to the right, where did he try to meet them halfway? The only place where he seems to be meeting the right (or going further) is in his ramping up of the war in Afghanistan and some of his campaign rhetoric on Iran and Pakistan.
Not everyone who opposed Bush, his wars, etc. was a member of the left. There are plenty of libertarians who opposed it all, and some of them can also be found in the various conspiracy theory movements (eg 9/11 truthers). Many of those libertarians continue to oppose the wars, even though most of the left has moved on now that there's a new president.
In Spanish, the word for American is basically "United States-ian" (estadounidense), so perhaps the GP comes from that background.
Most of those farmers were armed, and it was those armed dirt poor farmers who fought in the Continental Army to oust the British. If anything, I'd have been more worried then than now. They tarred and feathered people for the lamest of infractions against rights. We roll over and play dead when they declare us to be enemy combatants and lock us away without trial.
Of course, back then currency was a title to a certain amount of shiny metals, and there's no need for an extra special law to protect against forgeries. Fraud should cover it, and nothing in the Constitution could be construed as permitting fraud. Having a representation of a coin, bill, seal, etc. etc. is not fraudulent, and making it so is like what states used to do with the magical seal of the King/Emperor/God-incarnate/etc.
Whether it is copyright law or not, it has essentially the same effect as an indefinite copyright where the holder gives no right to reproduce.
We used to. In the era of Andrew Jackson and co., you could just walk right on in. You could even attempt to kill him if you wish. Just make sure you get his cane first...
Lots of these now offlimits offices, houses, etc. used to be freely accessible to the people who paid for them.
I think that went over your head....
It's funny that in my state (Virginia) I can walk into a gun dealership and buy a semi-auto rifle, yet I can't have a switchblade. I can also get a concealed carry permit to carry around a handgun, but concealing a stiletto is not OK. IIRC, if you can find one old enough, you can still get automatic weapons. I would comment on the logic of this, but then again, this is Congress we are talking about.
Windows Mobile 7 is a tiny little drop in the massive ocean of other embedded systems.
Those things are still relevant, though not to the same extent. I am careful with space when I write networking code, possibly at the level that someone from 1987 was.
And some of us still fork() our way forward. POSIX can be found in many places, even your phone....