What is the point of using remote resources when local resources are so cheap for non-businesses? The 60's model was based on the economic realities of computing being unaffordable for most people. That is not the case today.
Why do people who often don't even store 100GB of data on their own computers need everything sent into "the cloud"?
All the blather about "public" and "private" as binary opposites leaves people with no ability to deal the reality of how these things overlap. Literally two sides of the same coin in this case, and in a growing number of cases.
It seems to me that the closest analogy to this test would be our sense of balance. Our reaction to tipping over is mostly unconsciously controlled and happens faster than our normal movements.
Balance is processed in the inner ear and eyes giving about a short a signal path as is possible for us.
Didn't Adblock only arise due to delays in getting Adblock Plus ported to Chrome? I don't see Adblock in Mozilla's addon offerings.
I used Adblock with Chrome until ABP became available and then I switched. Perhaps there was enough time lag and/or confusion for Adblock to remain popular on Chrome.
I'll always leave adblock enable on those sites that make (empty) threats. Everything on the 'Net has an alternative source, and users smart enough to use adblock are smart enough to find alternative sources.
If they ask nicely to show ads, like DuckDuckGo does, then I may allow them through.
Drawing comparisons to WWII is ironic, because the F-35 program is exactly the kind of program that the US did not invest in during the war. A program that consumed lots of resources on the promise of radical advances without delivering anything actually useful onto the battlefield now.
Germany in contrast, spent lots of time on such projects even into the final desperate days.
Yes, let's kept paying the crony capitalists lest we be left defenseless. So many people have been nonchalant about the economic damage this system has caused to our country, so I can only hope the security damage is more successful in grabbing their attention.
Even if this project met its goals, it would still be extremely underwhelming... especially on cost-benefit analysis. Starting over is the right choice.
Realistically you are already subject to an endless litany of laws as a citizen of the United States circa 2014. So many rules, in fact, that you don't even know what most of them are. Society is necessarily built on "re-education" from our theoretical natural state, because these rules are not all inherent to our behavior.
The idea in the story was that an efficient enforcement mechanism can minimize the number of necessary rules and maximize their fairness. While you may prefer our current system to the one in the story, it's not hard to imagine that the current system of rules is non-optimal.
The inability to act out many "bad" behavior in the Australia Project was negated by the disconnect between brain and body in the plugged-in citizens. You were free to do what you wanted in your own personal Matrix where there were no ill effects to either you or others.
Americans are individuality obsessed, perhaps moreso than any other human culture throughout history. The story is written specifically to force us to think about this subject.
There were lots of benefits to the plug-in setup. The primary social justification for the setup was to prevent bad behavior/crime.
Having an perfect AI referee watching everyone through their own senses is far-fetched, but I took it to be more of a thought experiment than some attempt at non-fiction.
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It may help them determine who exactly is using the browser in multiple users on one account scenarios.
What is the point of using remote resources when local resources are so cheap for non-businesses? The 60's model was based on the economic realities of computing being unaffordable for most people. That is not the case today.
Why do people who often don't even store 100GB of data on their own computers need everything sent into "the cloud"?
All the blather about "public" and "private" as binary opposites leaves people with no ability to deal the reality of how these things overlap. Literally two sides of the same coin in this case, and in a growing number of cases.
That OS has been unsupported for more than 4 years at this point.
Install Linux or get a new computer.
It seems to me that the closest analogy to this test would be our sense of balance. Our reaction to tipping over is mostly unconsciously controlled and happens faster than our normal movements.
Balance is processed in the inner ear and eyes giving about a short a signal path as is possible for us.
The reason the PS3's PS2 backwards compatibility was removed was cost-cutting, not technical issues as you seem to be implying.
This is also the case with Ghostery.
Didn't Adblock only arise due to delays in getting Adblock Plus ported to Chrome? I don't see Adblock in Mozilla's addon offerings.
I used Adblock with Chrome until ABP became available and then I switched. Perhaps there was enough time lag and/or confusion for Adblock to remain popular on Chrome.
This is just half a rack... I'm more of a full rack guy.
I pasted the wrong link. Change to allow some ads by default was in 2011: http://slashdot.org/story/11/1...
Ad Blocking software allows them to show and always has. And that is because they are unobtrusive and not annoying.
All of my browsers have some kind of ad-block technology in them. And the Google text ads show just fine, thank you.
False with regards to Adblock Plus. http://tech.slashdot.org/story...
I'll always leave adblock enable on those sites that make (empty) threats. Everything on the 'Net has an alternative source, and users smart enough to use adblock are smart enough to find alternative sources.
If they ask nicely to show ads, like DuckDuckGo does, then I may allow them through.
VLC and Mplayer can both play Blu-rays in both ISO and file folder format on Linux as long as they are decrypted.
If you want everything on the disc, make the Blu-ray into an ISO just as you would with DVD.
It's a bigger file, sure, but disk space has been getting cheaper.
$30/month is enough to get me not only a uncapped 100/100mb line, but a dedicated server/seedbox running at high utilization 24/7 too.
"The last mile is expensive", yadda yadda, sure, but there has to be more than a bit of price gouging here.
Because almost all ants are female.
No, the article itself mentions the impact difference between the two sides should be less than 1%.
The near side had much more surface in a liquid state during and after many of the impacts. The article claims heat from the Earth was the cause.
Drawing comparisons to WWII is ironic, because the F-35 program is exactly the kind of program that the US did not invest in during the war. A program that consumed lots of resources on the promise of radical advances without delivering anything actually useful onto the battlefield now.
Germany in contrast, spent lots of time on such projects even into the final desperate days.
Yes, let's kept paying the crony capitalists lest we be left defenseless. So many people have been nonchalant about the economic damage this system has caused to our country, so I can only hope the security damage is more successful in grabbing their attention.
Even if this project met its goals, it would still be extremely underwhelming... especially on cost-benefit analysis. Starting over is the right choice.
Any Borderlands 2 players?
I suddenly realize that Dubai may have been the inspiration for the not-yet-built city of Opportunity.
There is also a difference between rhetoric and propaganda.
Conflation of copyright infringement with theft is a case of the latter.
Listen as I whisper in your ear: "QWERTYUIOP"
Listen to the words of the serpent I shall not!
For in my visions I have seen The Answer... and it is spelt thus:
',.PYFGCRL
Gravity bends space, although always in the same basic way. (I think)
So lets imagine there may be some other way of bending space...
Realistically you are already subject to an endless litany of laws as a citizen of the United States circa 2014. So many rules, in fact, that you don't even know what most of them are. Society is necessarily built on "re-education" from our theoretical natural state, because these rules are not all inherent to our behavior.
The idea in the story was that an efficient enforcement mechanism can minimize the number of necessary rules and maximize their fairness. While you may prefer our current system to the one in the story, it's not hard to imagine that the current system of rules is non-optimal.
The inability to act out many "bad" behavior in the Australia Project was negated by the disconnect between brain and body in the plugged-in citizens. You were free to do what you wanted in your own personal Matrix where there were no ill effects to either you or others.
Americans are individuality obsessed, perhaps moreso than any other human culture throughout history. The story is written specifically to force us to think about this subject.
There were lots of benefits to the plug-in setup. The primary social justification for the setup was to prevent bad behavior/crime.
Having an perfect AI referee watching everyone through their own senses is far-fetched, but I took it to be more of a thought experiment than some attempt at non-fiction.