It's more like wearing a bullet proof vest inside an APC. Most likely not strictly necessary, but should anything get inside - or you step outside - utterly essential.
After the first reboot, some stupid popup appeared, prompting me to "like" the software on Facebook.
See, that's the point at which I would have sought an alternative. If the vendor is dumb enough to put that in their product (and a security product too), I really would be wondering what the fuck else they had put in there.
I don't know about the US, but here in the UK online grocery ordering is pretty popular. All (almost all?) the supermarkets offer it, at least in and around the big cities (I live on the outskirts of London so can't comment on more rural areas). You place your order, it's fulfilled by your local participating store, loaded into a small refrigerated van and delivered to your house during the time slot you specify.
It's been a good 4 or 5 years since I regularly, physically went to the supermarket to do a "full" grocery shop; shopping online is so much faster and more convenient (especially as I don't drive) that to me it's well worth the delivery charge.
That's one way in which conducting the research in a different country may yield different results.
If you're running a completely-FOSS debian install on top of these new Intel processors, what leverage do they have on you?
Leverage for what? If you're running an OS that they don't port their "make CPU go fast now" software to, you simply get what you paid for - a CPU with X cores running at Y GHz, and they don't get to charge you $Z for the upgrade.
Maybe, just maybe, if you crack it they could smack you with the DMCA (depending on the implementation of course), but how would they know you'd done it?
there is some reasonable logic - the benefit of being mobile accrues to the person with the mobile phone, so they should pay for it.
You could also argue that the benefit in being able to contact someone who is away from their landline accrues to the one placing the call, and so they should pay for it.
people are forbidden by law in Europe... to question the holocaust it's not very "scientific" thing to forbid questioning the matter...
The reasoning behind that, apparently, is that by claiming that the Holocaust didn't happen, you are effectively calling everyone who claims to have survived it a liar, and thus are defaming their character and committing either libel or slander (as appropriate). As it is felt that those people have already suffered enough, rather than forcing them to sue, the matter is covered by criminal law to allow the state to do it instead.
That's my usual example to people who ask "but what good is pure research?". The laser was literally sat around in research labs for decades before anyone worked out what to do with it; now almost every home in the developed world has at least one, and a significant proportion have several.
What is it with everyone and their demands from hard drive makers?
It's quite simple - until a product meets my criteria I'm not going to buy it.
I'd love an SSD, but at the current price/GB there's absolutely no way I can afford one, so when the subject is discussed I may well opine that they're too expensive (for me). That won't do anything to make them cheaper of course; sucks to be me.
Of course, being that this is/., I would think the fact that SilverLight does not play on any open players or Linux distributions would be enough to reject this summary's premise alone.
Don't be silly; it gives everyone a chance to have rip the shit out of Silverlight *and* Flash, argue the merits of HTML 5, etc. There's a good chance that a proper flamewar will develop, driving lots of lovely page (and therefore ad) impressions.
The only ones who can't absorb that cost are people doing work for free, and they don't need to worry about the ratings because they aren't selling stuff.
So no hobbyist ever sold anything? What about someone just starting out in mobile game development, are they meant to save up the $2040 and just hope that they can recoup it on their first ever title? That would absolutely put me off.
I'm in the UK and I just checked my privacy settings and the settings relating to this are present. I don't know if the service itself is enabled yet though.
I don't know why anyone would put any real data into a service like Facebook.
Because I have actual real-life friends on Facebook, and as I am interested in seeing what they're up to from time to time, I assume that that interest is reciprocated. I have also made new friends on Facebook and similar sites, some of which have become genuine, real life friends.
Facebook gets useful demographic data about me that they use to target adverts at me (that I block and/or ignore), I get to keep in touch with friends more easily (especially ones that are geographically distant) and sometimes make new ones. To me, I come off best in that trade. Your mileage may (and clearly does) vary.
which is (at least in my area) what 3mbps is. That is Cox's "value" tier. You pay very little for it. That's fine, but it is for people who really don't do much. It doesn't surprise me that it is slow. Pony up more cash if speed is important.
The fact remains though that if you are paying for 3Mbps, you should be receiving 3Mbps. If in fact you are receiving "up to 3Mbps if conditions are favourable, but less most of the time" then it should be labelled clearly as such.
Bulb lifetime depends upon the particulars of the installation and usage patterns - e.g. a bulb that is left on constantly with a nice steady power supply will last longer than one that is frequently switched on and off and/or has a power supply that suffers frequent large fluctuations from spec.
To an extent ADSL suffers similar problems - even if my ISP is perfectly capable of delivering a continuous 8Mpbs connection, if my phone wires are too poor I won't achieve that speed (which is exactly why I switched to cable). Of course, over-subscribing the line so it is frequently saturated isn't going to help either...
I'm sure companies would be happy to pay someone "up to" four hundred dollars an hour.
I often see salaries in job adverts quoted as "up to X" - at the interview you negotiate the actual rate. The only real difference here is that by the time you negotiate the actual bandwidth you're already under contract.
But I do agree with you; I think it should be fine for companies to advertise a service as "up to XMbps", as long as you get to back out of the contract if the actual speed is not high enough (where "high enough" would obviously be open to interpretation and arbitration). That's unlikely to happen however, given that provision of the service incurs a cost that someone would still have to swallow.
Also, to let my friends know where I am and what I'm doing. I don't bother checking in at work, at home, at the shops, etc, but if I'm actually out (and I remember) then yeah, I'll check in on it.
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It's more like wearing a bullet proof vest inside an APC. Most likely not strictly necessary, but should anything get inside - or you step outside - utterly essential.
while delays in proprietary software projects are quietly swept under the carpet due to 'commercial sensitivity'
Only by the vendor of that particular product/project - the media generally rip such things to pieces regardless of the vendor.
After the first reboot, some stupid popup appeared, prompting me to "like" the software on Facebook.
See, that's the point at which I would have sought an alternative. If the vendor is dumb enough to put that in their product (and a security product too), I really would be wondering what the fuck else they had put in there.
I don't know about the US, but here in the UK online grocery ordering is pretty popular. All (almost all?) the supermarkets offer it, at least in and around the big cities (I live on the outskirts of London so can't comment on more rural areas). You place your order, it's fulfilled by your local participating store, loaded into a small refrigerated van and delivered to your house during the time slot you specify.
It's been a good 4 or 5 years since I regularly, physically went to the supermarket to do a "full" grocery shop; shopping online is so much faster and more convenient (especially as I don't drive) that to me it's well worth the delivery charge.
That's one way in which conducting the research in a different country may yield different results.
If you're running a completely-FOSS debian install on top of these new Intel processors, what leverage do they have on you?
Leverage for what? If you're running an OS that they don't port their "make CPU go fast now" software to, you simply get what you paid for - a CPU with X cores running at Y GHz, and they don't get to charge you $Z for the upgrade.
Maybe, just maybe, if you crack it they could smack you with the DMCA (depending on the implementation of course), but how would they know you'd done it?
there is some reasonable logic - the benefit of being mobile accrues to the person with the mobile phone, so they should pay for it.
You could also argue that the benefit in being able to contact someone who is away from their landline accrues to the one placing the call, and so they should pay for it.
people are forbidden by law in Europe... to question the holocaust ...
it's not very "scientific" thing to forbid questioning the matter
The reasoning behind that, apparently, is that by claiming that the Holocaust didn't happen, you are effectively calling everyone who claims to have survived it a liar, and thus are defaming their character and committing either libel or slander (as appropriate). As it is felt that those people have already suffered enough, rather than forcing them to sue, the matter is covered by criminal law to allow the state to do it instead.
There is a measurable difference in the acceleration due to gravity at the equator compared to that at the poles because of the rotation of the Earth.
The effect of its rotation is observable without recourse to fixed reference points.
Geek impaired? On slashdot?
No it is not.
Facebook helps me to get on with my life - I have some good friends that I would probably never have met without it.
If you don't like Facebook then fine, just ignore it. In what way is it preventing you from getting on with your life?
the laser was first theorized in 1917
That's my usual example to people who ask "but what good is pure research?". The laser was literally sat around in research labs for decades before anyone worked out what to do with it; now almost every home in the developed world has at least one, and a significant proportion have several.
What is it with everyone and their demands from hard drive makers?
It's quite simple - until a product meets my criteria I'm not going to buy it.
I'd love an SSD, but at the current price/GB there's absolutely no way I can afford one, so when the subject is discussed I may well opine that they're too expensive (for me). That won't do anything to make them cheaper of course; sucks to be me.
Those parasites weren't controlling him though, he was still in complete control.
A closer analogy would be the brain slugs that turn up from time to time.
Of course, being that this is /., I would think the fact that SilverLight does not play on any open players or Linux distributions would be enough to reject this summary's premise alone.
Don't be silly; it gives everyone a chance to have rip the shit out of Silverlight *and* Flash, argue the merits of HTML 5, etc. There's a good chance that a proper flamewar will develop, driving lots of lovely page (and therefore ad) impressions.
The only ones who can't absorb that cost are people doing work for free, and they don't need to worry about the ratings because they aren't selling stuff.
So no hobbyist ever sold anything? What about someone just starting out in mobile game development, are they meant to save up the $2040 and just hope that they can recoup it on their first ever title? That would absolutely put me off.
I'm in the UK and I just checked my privacy settings and the settings relating to this are present. I don't know if the service itself is enabled yet though.
I don't know why anyone would put any real data into a service like Facebook.
Because I have actual real-life friends on Facebook, and as I am interested in seeing what they're up to from time to time, I assume that that interest is reciprocated. I have also made new friends on Facebook and similar sites, some of which have become genuine, real life friends.
Facebook gets useful demographic data about me that they use to target adverts at me (that I block and/or ignore), I get to keep in touch with friends more easily (especially ones that are geographically distant) and sometimes make new ones. To me, I come off best in that trade. Your mileage may (and clearly does) vary.
A lot of very popular websites make very heavy use of JavaScript, including most of Google's apps and Facebook. That is only going to increase.
People might not be leaving Firefox in droves for Chrome because of JS speed now, but it may well become an issue in the future.
No, that's because JScript is not JavaScript, not exactly. JavaScript is an implementation of ECMAScript, as is JScript.
which is (at least in my area) what 3mbps is. That is Cox's "value" tier. You pay very little for it. That's fine, but it is for people who really don't do much. It doesn't surprise me that it is slow. Pony up more cash if speed is important.
The fact remains though that if you are paying for 3Mbps, you should be receiving 3Mbps. If in fact you are receiving "up to 3Mbps if conditions are favourable, but less most of the time" then it should be labelled clearly as such.
Bulb lifetime depends upon the particulars of the installation and usage patterns - e.g. a bulb that is left on constantly with a nice steady power supply will last longer than one that is frequently switched on and off and/or has a power supply that suffers frequent large fluctuations from spec.
To an extent ADSL suffers similar problems - even if my ISP is perfectly capable of delivering a continuous 8Mpbs connection, if my phone wires are too poor I won't achieve that speed (which is exactly why I switched to cable). Of course, over-subscribing the line so it is frequently saturated isn't going to help either...
I'm sure companies would be happy to pay someone "up to" four hundred dollars an hour.
I often see salaries in job adverts quoted as "up to X" - at the interview you negotiate the actual rate. The only real difference here is that by the time you negotiate the actual bandwidth you're already under contract.
But I do agree with you; I think it should be fine for companies to advertise a service as "up to XMbps", as long as you get to back out of the contract if the actual speed is not high enough (where "high enough" would obviously be open to interpretation and arbitration). That's unlikely to happen however, given that provision of the service incurs a cost that someone would still have to swallow.
Because it's there - and why not?
Also, to let my friends know where I am and what I'm doing. I don't bother checking in at work, at home, at the shops, etc, but if I'm actually out (and I remember) then yeah, I'll check in on it.
Or relevant, given the flaw is in Firefox.