Don't feel like you need to defend yourself against any of the trolling comments here (and in fact you're better off ignoring them). You're a talented young man - and anyone of any importance in the world is going to recognize that immediately. This guy is not important.
Congrats on your success. If you care to share how much $$ you made on the sale, we would all be interested.:)
I truly do not understand where you are coming from when you feel the need to repeat this same comment in 3 different places. What is your beef with this kid? What is your point, exactly?
As others have mentioned, you come across as being extremely jealous. And for an adult to make jealous comments about a teenager - well what can I say except that those comments reflect far worse on the adult, and are generally indicative of an adult who has had issues adapting to life as a grown-up.
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but that's the impression that you are giving off.
Saving money is another good reason. In other countries (I'm thinking of Japan, for example) it is perfectly acceptable for a person to live with their parents until the day they get married. That way, they have a nice nest egg saved up for after they get married.
Having blown tens of thousands of dollars on rent when I was single - that actually seems like a pretty good deal to me.
Those power consumption benchmarks look a little suspect to me. I've got a Phenom II 720 (3 cores @ 2.8 GHZ) with 95 watt TDP, and the total system consumption at idle is about 65 watts. I'm not sure how they are managing to pull down almost double that with an Athlon II (also a 95 watt CPU) in the test system they used - unless a) they turned off the power management settings in the BIOS, or b) they are using some ridiculous 1000W PSU that is totally inefficient at lower loads.
Anyway - assuming that I leave my machine running for 8 hours a day on average, and the overwhelming majority of the time the CPU is at near-idle loads (i.e. consuming 65W), with electricity costing about $0.12 per kWh, I figure that it probably costs me about $24 per year in electricity. If I could shave off 1/3 of the electricity cost, I would only be saving $8 a year. After the 3 years that it takes me to make up that $25 difference, I'm probably in need of a new CPU anyway.
Also - while I haven't spent much time pricing motherboards recently - when I last checked I found that AMD motherboards tend to be cheaper than Intel motherboards, and also that AMD integrated graphics were considerably stronger, allowing me to get by without a discrete graphics card. Furthermore, if I wanted to upgrade my CPU now with the latest and greatest I would be able to do so without replacing my motherboard and buying new memory, I would be able to do so - whereas if I bought an LGA 1156 motherboard a year ago it would now be obsolete.
In other words - I agree with you that with Intel you'll have a faster and more power efficient machine, but I'm not so sure that you'll end up saving any money.
What if my goal in running a website is personal satisfaction rather than profit? I believe that using such a tool to screw around with an unwanted visitor could be deeply satisfying.
Or at some startup company that is trying to make a profit, but where the atmosphere is more fun and exciting than professional (and the pay is probably commensurate), this could be a way to let your admin blow off a little steam.
Just because it would never fly at your company doesn't mean that there are no situations where this plugin is acceptable to use. At the end of the day it's the owner's website, and they can do whatever pleases them.
Where I am (SF Bay Area) I actually get far better reception now and far more channels than I did previously after the DTV upgrade. Sorry to hear that it's not working out so well for you - but I am actually really happy with the results, being able to drop cable, and also knowing that a whole bunch of spectrum was freed up in the process.
Sorry. I was considering unborn children as being people. If nothing else, you could consider the religious right people and since Planned Parenthood is a business, Republicans chose people over business.
Planned Parenthood is not a business - it's a non-governmental organization.
Republicans are against things like public transportation (usually run by or supported by big business)
Public transportation is government public spending, not private business.
stupid carbon trading schemes (carbon traders are a business)
Oil and coal companies, who are also against carbon trading schemes, represent a much bigger and more established business than "carbon traders".
and even against Obamacare, which according to every Democrat I've talked to, is adored by the big insurance and pharmaceutical companies.
Insurance companies were vehemently opposed the new regulations imposed by healthcare reform bill because it makes it harder for them to cherry pick who they want to cover. Pharmaceutical companies were for the bill because they stand to profit handsomely from the increased number of insured Americans.
Any of these prove the point. Neither Republicans nor Democrats do anything ALWAYS, but partisan little bitches that can't see beyond their own the-other-team-is-always-wrong attitude will ALWAYS say that the side they don't agree with is ALWAYS wrong. We can call them the "extremists". This goes for both sides, btw.
So your beef here is that someone used the word "always" when they should have used the word "often"? Ok - I suppose you're correct about this, although I don't think that any readers here were actually confused about this point. Moving beyond pure semantics, can we also come to some agreement that there are indeed fundamental differences between Republicans and Democrats?
One of the biggest differences between Republicans and Democrats is in their differing philosophies towards government regulation of business. Republicans tend to believe that government is highly inefficient relative to private business, and that most attempts by the government to regulate the free market will only interfere with economic growth. Democrats, on the other hand, believe that government oversight and regulation are critical if a market it to remain free.
As such, Democrats, more often than Republicans, tend to create legislation designed to restrict the freedom of private businesses, in the hopes of protecting either consumers, the environment, or other smaller businesses. Recent examples here would be the recently passed health care bill, or recent regulations passed to protect consumers from predatory practices by banks and credit card companies. Businesses (especially the "big" established ones) tend to be against these regulations because changing to comply with these regulations frequently costs money. Republicans also tend to be against these regulations because, as mentioned above, they believe that most attempts by government to interfere in private business is likely to cause more problems than it fixes.
So one result of these differing ideologies between Republicans and Democrats is that Democrats find themselves at odds with private businesses more frequently than Republicans. And Republicans find themselves aligned with private businesses more frequently than Democrats. What we are seeing here in regards to Net Neutrality regulations is really no different.
So I for one am not at all surprised to see Republicans voting against net neutrality regulations designed to protect consumers. And I don't think that the previous poster's comment that "the fact is that Republicans always look out for business interests over the people's interests" is that unreasonable, semantic issues with the word "always" aside. If a Republican were to take issue this
Al Jean, executive producer of the show, says that he can appreciate the concern. 'We have 480 episodes, and if there are a few that they don't want to air for awhile in light of the terrible thing going on, I completely understand that,' says Jean...
Not sure I understand why you're so indignant when the executive producer of the show himself sees no problem here.
What an incredibly reasonable thing to say. I wish more people on slashdot - or in the world for that matter - would be this reasonable.
I personally came to slashdot because I was hoping to learn something about the situation with the nuclear reactors in Japan at a deeper level than the mass media can be counted on to provide. There have been a handful of informative posts in this 600+ post thread that have helped me to improve my understanding considerably, but I have had to filter through an enormous amount of crud along the way. Frankly, I find it all very tiring.
Are there better places to go than slashdot, for a person who is more interested in facts and details than opinions, to educate themselves about current events in science and technology?
If you had read on for another sentence or two you would see that the author and the person who runs the blog are two different people. Your quote is from the person who runs the blog.
While "groped" would certainly be an exaggeration, I have absolutely had my balls touched by a TSA officer after refusing the scanner here in San Francisco. This has happened more than once.
I currently use callcentric.com as a SIP provider to do just this. It's not free, but at $2.95 a month for a dial-in number, and $0.02 a minute for outbound calls to the US, it's pretty darn close. Call quality is comparable to land line phone calls.
Is it just because SIP + Google Voice will presumably be free that people are getting so excited?
What percentage of Mac users do you think are using dual 30" monitors? Now I'm not trying to defend Apple and say that they *shouldn't* try to offer a great user experience for users with large monitors - especially since one of their target demographics seems to be graphic designers - but I also think that you're missing the point somewhat if you cite an issue that probably affects fewer than 1% of users as evidence that "Apple doesn't have good design".
Does playing a guitar really get you laid? Even after high school and college?
If getting laid is what you're after, then I think you'd be better off with a Wii Fit (healthy) and some sort of business simulator - like Railroad Tycoon (rich).
T-Mobile recently came out with their dirt cheap (for an Android phone) "Comet". The phone costs about $150 to buy outright, and you can use it on their pay-as-you-go plan (10 cents per minute calling). A "Web Day Pass" can be purchased* for $1.49, and it gives you unlimited 3G data access for 24 hours on the days that you need it.
You should also be able to use a nicer, more expensive Android phone on the pay-as-you-go plan, if you don't mind paying $250 or more up front for the phone.
I've been waiting for a long time for a pricing model like this to come along before purchasing a smart phone. $80 a month (or even $50 a month on some of the cheaper carriers) is just too much for me to pay for a smart phone given how much of my day is spent sitting in front of a desktop computer and land line. I would love to see T-Mobile be successful with with this pricing model, and to see other carriers following suit.
* Currently T-Mobiles servers are crapping out and you can't actually buy a Web Day Pass. Pretty sloppy - but I assume it's just a temporary problem as they roll out the new system.
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Hey Daniil,
:)
Don't feel like you need to defend yourself against any of the trolling comments here (and in fact you're better off ignoring them). You're a talented young man - and anyone of any importance in the world is going to recognize that immediately. This guy is not important.
Congrats on your success. If you care to share how much $$ you made on the sale, we would all be interested.
I truly do not understand where you are coming from when you feel the need to repeat this same comment in 3 different places. What is your beef with this kid? What is your point, exactly?
As others have mentioned, you come across as being extremely jealous. And for an adult to make jealous comments about a teenager - well what can I say except that those comments reflect far worse on the adult, and are generally indicative of an adult who has had issues adapting to life as a grown-up.
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but that's the impression that you are giving off.
Saving money is another good reason. In other countries (I'm thinking of Japan, for example) it is perfectly acceptable for a person to live with their parents until the day they get married. That way, they have a nice nest egg saved up for after they get married.
Having blown tens of thousands of dollars on rent when I was single - that actually seems like a pretty good deal to me.
Actually... the correct answer to the GP's question is:
We dooo, we dooo!
I agree. There's no way that this experience/technology could ever be applied to anything useful.
/sarcasm
Those power consumption benchmarks look a little suspect to me. I've got a Phenom II 720 (3 cores @ 2.8 GHZ) with 95 watt TDP, and the total system consumption at idle is about 65 watts. I'm not sure how they are managing to pull down almost double that with an Athlon II (also a 95 watt CPU) in the test system they used - unless a) they turned off the power management settings in the BIOS, or b) they are using some ridiculous 1000W PSU that is totally inefficient at lower loads.
Anyway - assuming that I leave my machine running for 8 hours a day on average, and the overwhelming majority of the time the CPU is at near-idle loads (i.e. consuming 65W), with electricity costing about $0.12 per kWh, I figure that it probably costs me about $24 per year in electricity. If I could shave off 1/3 of the electricity cost, I would only be saving $8 a year. After the 3 years that it takes me to make up that $25 difference, I'm probably in need of a new CPU anyway.
Also - while I haven't spent much time pricing motherboards recently - when I last checked I found that AMD motherboards tend to be cheaper than Intel motherboards, and also that AMD integrated graphics were considerably stronger, allowing me to get by without a discrete graphics card. Furthermore, if I wanted to upgrade my CPU now with the latest and greatest I would be able to do so without replacing my motherboard and buying new memory, I would be able to do so - whereas if I bought an LGA 1156 motherboard a year ago it would now be obsolete.
In other words - I agree with you that with Intel you'll have a faster and more power efficient machine, but I'm not so sure that you'll end up saving any money.
What if my goal in running a website is personal satisfaction rather than profit? I believe that using such a tool to screw around with an unwanted visitor could be deeply satisfying.
Or at some startup company that is trying to make a profit, but where the atmosphere is more fun and exciting than professional (and the pay is probably commensurate), this could be a way to let your admin blow off a little steam.
Just because it would never fly at your company doesn't mean that there are no situations where this plugin is acceptable to use. At the end of the day it's the owner's website, and they can do whatever pleases them.
Where I am (SF Bay Area) I actually get far better reception now and far more channels than I did previously after the DTV upgrade. Sorry to hear that it's not working out so well for you - but I am actually really happy with the results, being able to drop cable, and also knowing that a whole bunch of spectrum was freed up in the process.
Sorry. I was considering unborn children as being people. If nothing else, you could consider the religious right people and since Planned Parenthood is a business, Republicans chose people over business.
Planned Parenthood is not a business - it's a non-governmental organization.
Republicans are against things like public transportation (usually run by or supported by big business)
Public transportation is government public spending, not private business.
stupid carbon trading schemes (carbon traders are a business)
Oil and coal companies, who are also against carbon trading schemes, represent a much bigger and more established business than "carbon traders".
and even against Obamacare, which according to every Democrat I've talked to, is adored by the big insurance and pharmaceutical companies.
Insurance companies were vehemently opposed the new regulations imposed by healthcare reform bill because it makes it harder for them to cherry pick who they want to cover. Pharmaceutical companies were for the bill because they stand to profit handsomely from the increased number of insured Americans.
Any of these prove the point. Neither Republicans nor Democrats do anything ALWAYS, but partisan little bitches that can't see beyond their own the-other-team-is-always-wrong attitude will ALWAYS say that the side they don't agree with is ALWAYS wrong. We can call them the "extremists". This goes for both sides, btw.
So your beef here is that someone used the word "always" when they should have used the word "often"? Ok - I suppose you're correct about this, although I don't think that any readers here were actually confused about this point. Moving beyond pure semantics, can we also come to some agreement that there are indeed fundamental differences between Republicans and Democrats?
One of the biggest differences between Republicans and Democrats is in their differing philosophies towards government regulation of business. Republicans tend to believe that government is highly inefficient relative to private business, and that most attempts by the government to regulate the free market will only interfere with economic growth. Democrats, on the other hand, believe that government oversight and regulation are critical if a market it to remain free.
As such, Democrats, more often than Republicans, tend to create legislation designed to restrict the freedom of private businesses, in the hopes of protecting either consumers, the environment, or other smaller businesses. Recent examples here would be the recently passed health care bill, or recent regulations passed to protect consumers from predatory practices by banks and credit card companies. Businesses (especially the "big" established ones) tend to be against these regulations because changing to comply with these regulations frequently costs money. Republicans also tend to be against these regulations because, as mentioned above, they believe that most attempts by government to interfere in private business is likely to cause more problems than it fixes.
So one result of these differing ideologies between Republicans and Democrats is that Democrats find themselves at odds with private businesses more frequently than Republicans. And Republicans find themselves aligned with private businesses more frequently than Democrats. What we are seeing here in regards to Net Neutrality regulations is really no different.
So I for one am not at all surprised to see Republicans voting against net neutrality regulations designed to protect consumers. And I don't think that the previous poster's comment that "the fact is that Republicans always look out for business interests over the people's interests" is that unreasonable, semantic issues with the word "always" aside. If a Republican were to take issue this
This seems to me like more of a JavaScript injection attack. Or am I missing something?
Very difficult to tell from the worthless article and summary.
Which episode was it that offended you so badly?
Al Jean, executive producer of the show, says that he can appreciate the concern. 'We have 480 episodes, and if there are a few that they don't want to air for awhile in light of the terrible thing going on, I completely understand that,' says Jean...
Not sure I understand why you're so indignant when the executive producer of the show himself sees no problem here.
I actually thought that was pretty funny, but alas, I have no more mod points.
What an incredibly reasonable thing to say. I wish more people on slashdot - or in the world for that matter - would be this reasonable.
I personally came to slashdot because I was hoping to learn something about the situation with the nuclear reactors in Japan at a deeper level than the mass media can be counted on to provide. There have been a handful of informative posts in this 600+ post thread that have helped me to improve my understanding considerably, but I have had to filter through an enormous amount of crud along the way. Frankly, I find it all very tiring.
Are there better places to go than slashdot, for a person who is more interested in facts and details than opinions, to educate themselves about current events in science and technology?
Actually I've known quite a few English teachers in Asia, but I'm afraid I still don't understand why you stopped. Care to elaborate?
If you had read on for another sentence or two you would see that the author and the person who runs the blog are two different people. Your quote is from the person who runs the blog.
Haha... I don't know - I guess a simple "thank you" would have been nice.
While "groped" would certainly be an exaggeration, I have absolutely had my balls touched by a TSA officer after refusing the scanner here in San Francisco. This has happened more than once.
I currently use callcentric.com as a SIP provider to do just this. It's not free, but at $2.95 a month for a dial-in number, and $0.02 a minute for outbound calls to the US, it's pretty darn close. Call quality is comparable to land line phone calls.
Is it just because SIP + Google Voice will presumably be free that people are getting so excited?
Mormons?
Sounds like the speaker cables that you've been using aren't very danceable.
What percentage of Mac users do you think are using dual 30" monitors? Now I'm not trying to defend Apple and say that they *shouldn't* try to offer a great user experience for users with large monitors - especially since one of their target demographics seems to be graphic designers - but I also think that you're missing the point somewhat if you cite an issue that probably affects fewer than 1% of users as evidence that "Apple doesn't have good design".
Microsoft stock pays about a 2.5% yield. Compared with Apple or Google, Microsoft actually seems like a relatively low risk investment.
Does playing a guitar really get you laid? Even after high school and college?
If getting laid is what you're after, then I think you'd be better off with a Wii Fit (healthy) and some sort of business simulator - like Railroad Tycoon (rich).
T-Mobile recently came out with their dirt cheap (for an Android phone) "Comet". The phone costs about $150 to buy outright, and you can use it on their pay-as-you-go plan (10 cents per minute calling). A "Web Day Pass" can be purchased* for $1.49, and it gives you unlimited 3G data access for 24 hours on the days that you need it.
You should also be able to use a nicer, more expensive Android phone on the pay-as-you-go plan, if you don't mind paying $250 or more up front for the phone.
I've been waiting for a long time for a pricing model like this to come along before purchasing a smart phone. $80 a month (or even $50 a month on some of the cheaper carriers) is just too much for me to pay for a smart phone given how much of my day is spent sitting in front of a desktop computer and land line. I would love to see T-Mobile be successful with with this pricing model, and to see other carriers following suit.
* Currently T-Mobiles servers are crapping out and you can't actually buy a Web Day Pass. Pretty sloppy - but I assume it's just a temporary problem as they roll out the new system.