The moment the hard drive spins up to try and page a program to disk, any power savings is more than negated. I wouldn't consider 2GB as "more than enough", maybe 3 or 4GB, but 2 is barely acceptable for running a modern browser with dozens of tabs open, an office program or two, and a few other productivity apps and maybe something like iTunes.
Which provider do you use for your email? I use gmail, and among the hundreds of spams my oldest account receives, it's exceptionally rare for any to make it past the filter, perhaps 2-3 a year. For a while, a couple years ago, I would get 2-3 a week on that account, then google sprinkled some googledust on the servers and it's now practically non-existent.
This new evidence shows that high levels of Reactive Oxidative species are rather a biological signal used to combat aging then the process itself.
Then the process itself what? Doesn't seem like the author of this statement made it through the second half of third grade where the difference between "then" and "than" is taught...
People misusing "pet peeves" is one of my peeves. Notice I didn't say "one of my pet peeves" since pet in this sense means "one above all others", thus is not something you can have more than one of.
Google provides many products and services that I use and like. I've never once had a Google ad which had something like "buy these window drapes, they go great with that new couch you bought last week". In fact, I've clicked on a few Google ads over the years (and ZERO other ads) simply because the product in the ad actually moderately interested me. As for the information "chrome passes to Google", well, that's no more information than they get from simply from tracking the links someone clicks in a Google search. I've never once been wronged by Google, or had them deleteriously affect my life. I don't see any harm in them knowing I frequent slashdot, xkcd, wikipedia, and click on many science and tech news articles throughout the day. I don't see any harm in them knowing I use their search engine to troubleshoot computer issues all day at work. If they use that information to serve me small, unobtrusive ads based on that information, and use said revenue to pay for stuff like Docs and Gmail, that's fine with me. I'd rather have them track my browsing habits, and have targeted ads than pay money for those services. It's not like some person is sitting around at google actively watching your every click, laughing, and choosing what ads to send you, it's all machines, and with hundreds of millions a day, they literally don't have time to put a human in front of that data, and never will.
Infant mortality rate is honestly not that important. Sure, to the parents, when little timmy dies it's a horrible loss, but to be blunt, infants are nothing more than screaming poop factories. Given the choice between living in a country with a life expectancy of 50 and nearly no infant deaths or one with a life expectancy of 500 and a 50% infant death rate, I'll choose the latter.
A game controller was originally designed to control games that consisted of moving left/right or up/down and possibly doing a single action, such as jump/shoot. Stuff like Pong, pacman, etc. 25 years or so of progression and the controllers keep adding more buttons, analog sticks. If I'm trying to click on a control, select an inventory item, pan my screen around, or any other number of things, I'd MUCH rather have the speed AND accuracy a mouse provides. Analog sticks are far slower or far less accurate for manipulating a cursor, and they are far less suited to panning a screen around, such as in first person shooters. As for the keyboard, I'd much rather hit the J key to bring up my in game journal than Right-shoulder 1 + 2 + X or some shit, since you only have a few buttons and are forced to memorize button combinations for every non-common tasks that can't have a single button dedicated to it.
I have a Droid and let me tell you, trying to click on links on a touch interface is a pain. I very much do not ever want to attempt to do my main web browsing on a touch interface, ever.
You could map the entire IPv4 internet on IPv6 addresses forever and not care. There's so many IPv6 addresses, even if Earth had 10x the current population and each man, woman and child had 100,000 addresses each, there'd still be tons left over.
You can't tell me they'd rather send you ads they THINK you'll like based on age, sex, income versus sending you ads they KNOW you'll like. They use general stuff like age, sex, etc because they don't know what else to do, YET. And I'm sure they are trying.
That won't help. The reason for the charge due to the imbalance is (presumably) to offset the cost is infrastructure. Lets make up numbers here. If Level 3 is sending 1000 units and receiving 1100, they need infrastructure to carry 1100. Comcast receives 1000 and sends 100 and also needs infrastructure for 1100. Now if Netflix needlessly makes client pcs send as much as they receive, both Comcast and Level 3 will now transmit and receive 1000, and need infrastructure to carry 2000 units.
So instead of Comcast charging Level 3 for the extra 1000 units of infrastructure Level 3 is causing them to need, both Level 3 AND Comcast would need to have capacity for 2000. That is an increase in capacity between the two of them of 1800 (again, entirely arbitrary numbers), instead of just Comcast adding 1000. 1800 > 1000, so in the end, it would cost the customers 80% to make the imbalance into a "zero" difference. Either one side "loses" or BOTH lose, but it cannot ever be that neither do, and end the end, that "loss" is paid for by the customer.
DSL isn't able to compete, either. At my apartment, I can get either ATT DSL at 3 (possibly 6 depending on signal strength) megs down and 512k up or, for about 2x the price of the 3 meg services I can get 22 mbit down, 2 mbit up service from the cable company. I've had DSL a few different times before at various places and they always seem to connect you at the maximum limits of your service, so if the line is just barely short enough to do 3 mbit under ideal conditions on a magically perfect day, they'll connect that to charge you as much as possible even tho you NEVER see more than half of that. Cable usually seems to pretty much always run at advertised speeds.
So, $15-20 a month for 1.5-3 mbit down or $35 a month for 22 mbit? Yeah, there's technically competition, but not really as you'd either be VERY cash-strapped to get dsl, not care about speed at all or just plain dumb.
Mostly due to the country being full of fat, lazy, ignorant sheep who don't care what goes on so long as they can watch their 'merkin idol while eating a tub of lard. Consequently greedy jackasses get elected because they had the most commercials during primetime reality shows, and take hand-outs from all the big-business to pass laws and regulations that prevent competition and benefit no one other than big business.
On that note, I really REALLY need to get around to buying a copy of Rosetta Stone for Swedish before things get absolutely intolerably bad here.
So that's why the sky is blue and water falls from it? Because there's an ocean up there? Genesis sure knows how to convince me it's not completely made up shit, that's for sure! I guess NASA has been launching submarines on their rockets this whole time and SCUBA divers? Neat!
How is this even a problem? I have not read of a SINGLE incident of a LEGAL owner of a minigun using it to kill people. Not to mention it is a FACT that someone who's willing to kill doesn't really give a crap if having the gun they are about to use is legal or not.
Chances are that those numbers are extremely skewed based on Amazon shoppers being far more likely to purchase Amazon's offering. I applaud Amazon for making both available, however. It's most likely people ALREADY having decided to get a Kindle, clicking on a link to compare them before they purchase, to make sure they will be satisfied with their purchase before buying.
So you think they think of themselves as terrorists and their goal is terror? I hardly think they sit around hatching up new plans to "make us afraid"...
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The moment the hard drive spins up to try and page a program to disk, any power savings is more than negated. I wouldn't consider 2GB as "more than enough", maybe 3 or 4GB, but 2 is barely acceptable for running a modern browser with dozens of tabs open, an office program or two, and a few other productivity apps and maybe something like iTunes.
Which provider do you use for your email? I use gmail, and among the hundreds of spams my oldest account receives, it's exceptionally rare for any to make it past the filter, perhaps 2-3 a year. For a while, a couple years ago, I would get 2-3 a week on that account, then google sprinkled some googledust on the servers and it's now practically non-existent.
MSE is currently at 3MB and 0% CPU on my Windows 7 64bit install.
This new evidence shows that high levels of Reactive Oxidative species are rather a biological signal used to combat aging then the process itself.
Then the process itself what? Doesn't seem like the author of this statement made it through the second half of third grade where the difference between "then" and "than" is taught...
People misusing "pet peeves" is one of my peeves. Notice I didn't say "one of my pet peeves" since pet in this sense means "one above all others", thus is not something you can have more than one of.
Google provides many products and services that I use and like. I've never once had a Google ad which had something like "buy these window drapes, they go great with that new couch you bought last week". In fact, I've clicked on a few Google ads over the years (and ZERO other ads) simply because the product in the ad actually moderately interested me. As for the information "chrome passes to Google", well, that's no more information than they get from simply from tracking the links someone clicks in a Google search. I've never once been wronged by Google, or had them deleteriously affect my life. I don't see any harm in them knowing I frequent slashdot, xkcd, wikipedia, and click on many science and tech news articles throughout the day. I don't see any harm in them knowing I use their search engine to troubleshoot computer issues all day at work. If they use that information to serve me small, unobtrusive ads based on that information, and use said revenue to pay for stuff like Docs and Gmail, that's fine with me. I'd rather have them track my browsing habits, and have targeted ads than pay money for those services. It's not like some person is sitting around at google actively watching your every click, laughing, and choosing what ads to send you, it's all machines, and with hundreds of millions a day, they literally don't have time to put a human in front of that data, and never will.
Infant mortality rate is honestly not that important. Sure, to the parents, when little timmy dies it's a horrible loss, but to be blunt, infants are nothing more than screaming poop factories. Given the choice between living in a country with a life expectancy of 50 and nearly no infant deaths or one with a life expectancy of 500 and a 50% infant death rate, I'll choose the latter.
A game controller was originally designed to control games that consisted of moving left/right or up/down and possibly doing a single action, such as jump/shoot. Stuff like Pong, pacman, etc. 25 years or so of progression and the controllers keep adding more buttons, analog sticks. If I'm trying to click on a control, select an inventory item, pan my screen around, or any other number of things, I'd MUCH rather have the speed AND accuracy a mouse provides. Analog sticks are far slower or far less accurate for manipulating a cursor, and they are far less suited to panning a screen around, such as in first person shooters. As for the keyboard, I'd much rather hit the J key to bring up my in game journal than Right-shoulder 1 + 2 + X or some shit, since you only have a few buttons and are forced to memorize button combinations for every non-common tasks that can't have a single button dedicated to it.
Perhaps the fact that he posted a link to a total shit webcomic?
I have a Droid and let me tell you, trying to click on links on a touch interface is a pain. I very much do not ever want to attempt to do my main web browsing on a touch interface, ever.
You could map the entire IPv4 internet on IPv6 addresses forever and not care. There's so many IPv6 addresses, even if Earth had 10x the current population and each man, woman and child had 100,000 addresses each, there'd still be tons left over.
Procariot is the Romanian spelling for prokaryote, so my guess is the GP is Romanian and slipped on the translation.
No actual result? For crying out loud, Tang alone is worth every penny spent on our space program!
Or maybe they realized with spelling as bad as yours, you likely didn't make it past 3rd grade.
You can't tell me they'd rather send you ads they THINK you'll like based on age, sex, income versus sending you ads they KNOW you'll like. They use general stuff like age, sex, etc because they don't know what else to do, YET. And I'm sure they are trying.
That won't help. The reason for the charge due to the imbalance is (presumably) to offset the cost is infrastructure. Lets make up numbers here. If Level 3 is sending 1000 units and receiving 1100, they need infrastructure to carry 1100. Comcast receives 1000 and sends 100 and also needs infrastructure for 1100. Now if Netflix needlessly makes client pcs send as much as they receive, both Comcast and Level 3 will now transmit and receive 1000, and need infrastructure to carry 2000 units.
So instead of Comcast charging Level 3 for the extra 1000 units of infrastructure Level 3 is causing them to need, both Level 3 AND Comcast would need to have capacity for 2000. That is an increase in capacity between the two of them of 1800 (again, entirely arbitrary numbers), instead of just Comcast adding 1000. 1800 > 1000, so in the end, it would cost the customers 80% to make the imbalance into a "zero" difference. Either one side "loses" or BOTH lose, but it cannot ever be that neither do, and end the end, that "loss" is paid for by the customer.
DSL isn't able to compete, either. At my apartment, I can get either ATT DSL at 3 (possibly 6 depending on signal strength) megs down and 512k up or, for about 2x the price of the 3 meg services I can get 22 mbit down, 2 mbit up service from the cable company. I've had DSL a few different times before at various places and they always seem to connect you at the maximum limits of your service, so if the line is just barely short enough to do 3 mbit under ideal conditions on a magically perfect day, they'll connect that to charge you as much as possible even tho you NEVER see more than half of that. Cable usually seems to pretty much always run at advertised speeds.
So, $15-20 a month for 1.5-3 mbit down or $35 a month for 22 mbit? Yeah, there's technically competition, but not really as you'd either be VERY cash-strapped to get dsl, not care about speed at all or just plain dumb.
Mostly due to the country being full of fat, lazy, ignorant sheep who don't care what goes on so long as they can watch their 'merkin idol while eating a tub of lard. Consequently greedy jackasses get elected because they had the most commercials during primetime reality shows, and take hand-outs from all the big-business to pass laws and regulations that prevent competition and benefit no one other than big business.
On that note, I really REALLY need to get around to buying a copy of Rosetta Stone for Swedish before things get absolutely intolerably bad here.
I've never seen regional ISPs INSIDE large metro areas. In rural areas I've lots and LOTS of regional ISPs offering various wireless internet plans.
So that's why the sky is blue and water falls from it? Because there's an ocean up there? Genesis sure knows how to convince me it's not completely made up shit, that's for sure! I guess NASA has been launching submarines on their rockets this whole time and SCUBA divers? Neat!
How is this even a problem? I have not read of a SINGLE incident of a LEGAL owner of a minigun using it to kill people. Not to mention it is a FACT that someone who's willing to kill doesn't really give a crap if having the gun they are about to use is legal or not.
Gotta download child porn asap? Really?...
Chances are that those numbers are extremely skewed based on Amazon shoppers being far more likely to purchase Amazon's offering. I applaud Amazon for making both available, however. It's most likely people ALREADY having decided to get a Kindle, clicking on a link to compare them before they purchase, to make sure they will be satisfied with their purchase before buying.
So you think they think of themselves as terrorists and their goal is terror? I hardly think they sit around hatching up new plans to "make us afraid"...
Very carefully? Also, this will make for a hell of a "surprise", especially if she's allergic to bees!