It is being phased out. I don't know what the Apple OS is. Windows is effectively 64 bit by default now. All my work computers were native 64 bit Vista new just prior to Win 7. IT department at the time mandated they all be rolled back to XP 32-bit for ease of care.
Anyways, that is the point. Freaking Skyrim can run on a 32-bit machine if it has to. At FireFox's rate of bloat we won't be asking "Can it run Crysis?" but "Can it run FireFox?"
My mom has an android phone. They sell Android for Dummies books. So what?
Easy to use "appliance" things are bad? My mom can barely operate a flat screen television. It took her two years to figure out how to turn her computer one. Hint, there was literally only one button on it. She can work this phone just fine.
That there are/. readers who like android a lot testifies that it also courts the techies.
Off topic, but I can explain as I didn't have mod points for a few years. I forget when I made this userid, but it was 5-3 years ago. I got mod points starting 1.5 months ago.
Never comment. I voted a few times. Made one or two comments, but really I just read the posted articles and skimmed the comments. The name might as well been useless.
If this is a real moon rock someone just threw it away at one point. One person's valuable rock worth millions is another thing you can just pick up outside.
I swear I've seen Maxwell batteries somewhere. Maybe not the "Super POWER ACE red" variety, but I know that company has been state side at some point. I'm tempted to say either in the pharmacy in the previous town I lived in or some dollar store.
These kind of posts seem to be popping up a lot and off topic the last day or so. Are they always this bad or did I just not notice them till I was trying to burn off my mod points?
I don't see a link... so not an advertisement.
This is Slashdot where the cool-aid has already been drank, urinated, recycled through open sourced urine recycling hardware/software pirated from NASA, and drank again. Not astro-turfing unless it is of the 2-minute hate variety. Of course it could be trojan-astro-turfing by coming off as so vitriolic and annoying to drive people away from that mentality.
Under current precedent and what not it is more along the lines it belongs to FaceBook to lease out who whoever. The German company merely requested it first.
For years we have been joking that 1984 is not a guide. Now it seems either someone being paid to develop this has a sense of humor or has decided to up their game. No longer will 1984 be the guide, they are out to outdo the Dark Lord Sauron himself. Though, Tolkien was trying to recreate the lost myths of Britain, and by that reasoning LotR would be our past... Has anyone noticed any recent appointees or elected officials seemingly always wearing a plain gold ring?
Well, I guess if you want to pick a beef you might as well go for it. One more question, am I the only person who never had Windows 95 blow up on them? I mean, going to 98 was a heck of a lot smoother, but I never had any problems with '95.
Uhm, no. An idealist is only good if you agree with their ideals.
To paraphrase Jack Sparrow: "Me? I'm a politician, and a politician you can always trust to be political. Honestly. It's the idealists you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they're going to do something incredibly... stupid."
The Republicans elected a bunch of idealists. We now have presidential candidates who effectively want to disband the federal government, stating air pollution might cure asthma, vaccines cause autism, there is no unemployment just laziness and the best way to show this is to repeal child labor laws and force nine-year-olds to have jobs, etc., are now talking points.
These didn't come out of no where. The candidates are either idealists themselves or trying to appeal to the idealist part of their party in these tight primary races.
Anyone else find all that South Park stuff being on there is somewhat ironic? Maybe they just need to pitch more that all the episodes save some of the more recent ones (after the first week and then they pop back on) and two taken down for censorship are online for free?
I say Ironic was Trey and Matt stated they pushed for all the episodes being online for free because they were tired of having to pirate their own series whenever they easily wanted to rewatch an episode easily?
Wants to get high, justifies possible aid to global climate change.
Quite similar to a person with a vested interest in ethanol once told me. Ethanol is carbon negative! Take the corn kernels and make ethanol. What do you do with the cob and stalks? He didn't know, but you could do something with them as they are made from carbon pulled from the air. There you go, more carbon stored than burned. Therefore, make and burn more ethanol by building plants made by the company he works for.
Devil's advocate. Irene was NYC Region's Katrina. The storm that everyone who didn't have their head in a hole had been expecting. It was one of the reasons I was hesitant to seriously consider moving there after college. NYC gets an Irene like storm every 60-75 years and I knew it was due from past statistical records.
Everything else? I'll have to take your word on. Not all weirdness is weird, but sometimes weirdness is just weirdness.
Well, it is going to lead to evolution, but you are overlooking horizontal gene transfer among bacteria that could be accelerating the problem. This isn't pure mutation and reproduction, but the bacteria equivalent of developing their own anti-anti-biotic and spreading it among their own kind too.
Alchohol based and similar antibiotics don't have a drug to build a resistance to. It is just deadly in a high enough dose. Those that live are through dumb luck. So these products are safe to use without fear of adding to drug resistance.
Yes, I'm one of them. I am actually supporting this in hopes I can convince them to transport this bridge in Brooklyn I bought up there as a lawn decoration.
I didn't want to get into all that to keep my comment concise and to the point. I was replying to a comment whose logic was "Cost a lot to build, therefore must surely have money to pay this off."
I was countering that argument with a personal example that I lived. Not hearsay or second hand information.
I concede and admit that there are numerous other variables in play here. I am not saying $2 million is not a lot for the company currently. Maybe this plant wasn't making pennies on the dollar. Maybe it paid off its construction. I do not know. But you can't argue $2 million is "nothing" just because the project cost a lot to construct. The validity of nuclear power or green energy and the superiority of either did not fact into my statement.
I used to think like that, but then I worked for a company that cost several hundred million to build. Millions of dollars came in and left through the place on a daily basis at times. They only got to keep pennies on the dollar and most of the money had to go towards the loans and other investors. There were times the company had tens of thousands on its books as usable, owned, cash.
You can't judge cost to build as the standard for something like this. The investors and owners, probably could come up with that easily. The company itself if there are enough shield corporations between it and the owners? Hard to say.
I used to think that was possible, but WoW released their earnings report last week. They lost 800k players, or about 1.7 million since this last expansion. They are actually up year to date despite of this.
SWTOR will be the one to watch. EA has said they need 1 million subscriptions to break even and prefer 2 million. Right now only two pay-to-play MMOs are above the 1 million mark.
You know, something seems wrong if the worst case scenario is is this greatly surpassed. Four years ago? It looks like all the countries are at the same rate of increase as they were back then (for the most part) if you go by that Reuter's chart. I'm reading this wrong somehow, right? Status quo increase can't be worse than the "worst case scenario"?
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It is being phased out. I don't know what the Apple OS is. Windows is effectively 64 bit by default now. All my work computers were native 64 bit Vista new just prior to Win 7. IT department at the time mandated they all be rolled back to XP 32-bit for ease of care.
Anyways, that is the point. Freaking Skyrim can run on a 32-bit machine if it has to. At FireFox's rate of bloat we won't be asking "Can it run Crysis?" but "Can it run FireFox?"
My mom has an android phone. They sell Android for Dummies books. So what?
Easy to use "appliance" things are bad? My mom can barely operate a flat screen television. It took her two years to figure out how to turn her computer one. Hint, there was literally only one button on it. She can work this phone just fine.
That there are /. readers who like android a lot testifies that it also courts the techies.
You forgot their submarines: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdI1y4sdPZE
Off topic, but I can explain as I didn't have mod points for a few years. I forget when I made this userid, but it was 5-3 years ago. I got mod points starting 1.5 months ago.
Never comment. I voted a few times. Made one or two comments, but really I just read the posted articles and skimmed the comments. The name might as well been useless.
Not all were stolen. http://news.yahoo.com/former-resident-sues-claim-alaska-moon-rocks-071955850.html
If this is a real moon rock someone just threw it away at one point. One person's valuable rock worth millions is another thing you can just pick up outside.
I swear I've seen Maxwell batteries somewhere. Maybe not the "Super POWER ACE red" variety, but I know that company has been state side at some point. I'm tempted to say either in the pharmacy in the previous town I lived in or some dollar store.
These kind of posts seem to be popping up a lot and off topic the last day or so. Are they always this bad or did I just not notice them till I was trying to burn off my mod points?
I don't see a link... so not an advertisement.
This is Slashdot where the cool-aid has already been drank, urinated, recycled through open sourced urine recycling hardware/software pirated from NASA, and drank again. Not astro-turfing unless it is of the 2-minute hate variety. Of course it could be trojan-astro-turfing by coming off as so vitriolic and annoying to drive people away from that mentality.
Just trolling maybe?
Under current precedent and what not it is more along the lines it belongs to FaceBook to lease out who whoever. The German company merely requested it first.
Reminds me about accusations that part of the UAV software was either pirated or incorrectly used open source. Looks like this is nothing new.
Well, I hope jokes.
For years we have been joking that 1984 is not a guide. Now it seems either someone being paid to develop this has a sense of humor or has decided to up their game. No longer will 1984 be the guide, they are out to outdo the Dark Lord Sauron himself. Though, Tolkien was trying to recreate the lost myths of Britain, and by that reasoning LotR would be our past... Has anyone noticed any recent appointees or elected officials seemingly always wearing a plain gold ring?
Well, I guess if you want to pick a beef you might as well go for it. One more question, am I the only person who never had Windows 95 blow up on them? I mean, going to 98 was a heck of a lot smoother, but I never had any problems with '95.
Uhm, no. An idealist is only good if you agree with their ideals.
To paraphrase Jack Sparrow: "Me? I'm a politician, and a politician you can always trust to be political. Honestly. It's the idealists you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they're going to do something incredibly... stupid."
The Republicans elected a bunch of idealists. We now have presidential candidates who effectively want to disband the federal government, stating air pollution might cure asthma, vaccines cause autism, there is no unemployment just laziness and the best way to show this is to repeal child labor laws and force nine-year-olds to have jobs, etc., are now talking points.
These didn't come out of no where. The candidates are either idealists themselves or trying to appeal to the idealist part of their party in these tight primary races.
Anyone else find all that South Park stuff being on there is somewhat ironic? Maybe they just need to pitch more that all the episodes save some of the more recent ones (after the first week and then they pop back on) and two taken down for censorship are online for free?
I say Ironic was Trey and Matt stated they pushed for all the episodes being online for free because they were tired of having to pirate their own series whenever they easily wanted to rewatch an episode easily?
So your ideal interface would be a movie?
Wants to get high, justifies possible aid to global climate change.
Quite similar to a person with a vested interest in ethanol once told me. Ethanol is carbon negative! Take the corn kernels and make ethanol. What do you do with the cob and stalks? He didn't know, but you could do something with them as they are made from carbon pulled from the air. There you go, more carbon stored than burned. Therefore, make and burn more ethanol by building plants made by the company he works for.
Devil's advocate. Irene was NYC Region's Katrina. The storm that everyone who didn't have their head in a hole had been expecting. It was one of the reasons I was hesitant to seriously consider moving there after college. NYC gets an Irene like storm every 60-75 years and I knew it was due from past statistical records.
Everything else? I'll have to take your word on. Not all weirdness is weird, but sometimes weirdness is just weirdness.
I wish I could go back in time and patent, copyright and trademark the concept of "First Post!".
Of course it would be useless here. The volume on /. would triple just out of spite that such a thing was patented in protest.
Well, it is going to lead to evolution, but you are overlooking horizontal gene transfer among bacteria that could be accelerating the problem. This isn't pure mutation and reproduction, but the bacteria equivalent of developing their own anti-anti-biotic and spreading it among their own kind too.
It is evolution + developed.
Alchohol based and similar antibiotics don't have a drug to build a resistance to. It is just deadly in a high enough dose. Those that live are through dumb luck. So these products are safe to use without fear of adding to drug resistance.
Only the cheap/poor timid ones or ones with stubborn doctors. You can be surprised how far "samples" can be stretched and how often handed out.
Yes, I'm one of them. I am actually supporting this in hopes I can convince them to transport this bridge in Brooklyn I bought up there as a lawn decoration.
I didn't want to get into all that to keep my comment concise and to the point. I was replying to a comment whose logic was "Cost a lot to build, therefore must surely have money to pay this off."
I was countering that argument with a personal example that I lived. Not hearsay or second hand information.
I concede and admit that there are numerous other variables in play here. I am not saying $2 million is not a lot for the company currently. Maybe this plant wasn't making pennies on the dollar. Maybe it paid off its construction. I do not know. But you can't argue $2 million is "nothing" just because the project cost a lot to construct. The validity of nuclear power or green energy and the superiority of either did not fact into my statement.
I used to think like that, but then I worked for a company that cost several hundred million to build. Millions of dollars came in and left through the place on a daily basis at times. They only got to keep pennies on the dollar and most of the money had to go towards the loans and other investors. There were times the company had tens of thousands on its books as usable, owned, cash.
You can't judge cost to build as the standard for something like this. The investors and owners, probably could come up with that easily. The company itself if there are enough shield corporations between it and the owners? Hard to say.
I used to think that was possible, but WoW released their earnings report last week. They lost 800k players, or about 1.7 million since this last expansion. They are actually up year to date despite of this.
SWTOR will be the one to watch. EA has said they need 1 million subscriptions to break even and prefer 2 million. Right now only two pay-to-play MMOs are above the 1 million mark.
You know, something seems wrong if the worst case scenario is is this greatly surpassed. Four years ago? It looks like all the countries are at the same rate of increase as they were back then (for the most part) if you go by that Reuter's chart. I'm reading this wrong somehow, right? Status quo increase can't be worse than the "worst case scenario"?