That won't help you all that much. Not all traffic contributes to your usage for the purposes of billing. For example, on Internode in Australia, downloading from Internode's software mirror archive or watching ABC streaming TV doesn't contribute to billed usage, so you'd need to do some funky configuration of your router to account for that.
I'm allergic to selfish arseholes who seem to have forgotten that they were babies at one point. Where can I get an AK-59, so I can use them for target practice?
Doesn't work. At least in Australia, if you swipe a chip'n'PIN card on a POS terminal, it will just tell you to insert it so it can read the chip. There may be a magic code to override this, but you'd need a service manual for each device to find out how to do it.
If you had comprehension skills, you'd be able to ascertain that it relates to an implementation of an arbitrary precision numerics engine, a la GNU MultiPrecision (aka GMP). The technique has been around for close to a century, if not longer.
Oak Technologies is alive and well. They just got out of video cards when they realised they couldn't compete, and decided to concentrate on their core business - PostScript engines. My big colour laser has an Oak Technologies PostScript runtime card that works very nicely.
I know what they are - I was trying (unsuccessfully) to go for a funny mod by playing on the practice of complaining about not defining terms in summaries.
You have been able to buy magazines of artsy nude photos legitimately for about three years now. Anything more explicit than that is illegal. That doesn't mean you can't get it, though - pr0n DVDs are very easy to find.
Dude, did you read the linked article? He was driving a Holden Commodore - it's a General Motors V8 sedan. Most of the hooning deaths in Australia are in Ford and Holden V8s.
Yeah, it's all great until you kill someone in an effort to lengthen your pathetically small penis. Oh, and the DEC VAX is a supermini - not a mainframe (the PDP-10 was the mainframe).
No, seriously, cards are faster in businesses that support pre-swipe. Woolworths/Safeway supermarkets in Australia are the only ones I've had experience with. While the checkout chick (or dude) scans your items, you swipe your card, and select whether you want to pay the sale amount, or enter an amount manually. When all your items are scanned, you are shown the total amount and prompted to enter your PIN and OK, or cancel the transaction. Making a connection to the bank is fast - these places have always-on ISDN. Card payments using transient analog dial-up connections are slow - I'll grant you that - but that's not what we're talking about here.
I think you're missing the point. It's about laptops per se - it's encouraging dissent. You get locked up for "supporting terrorism" in the USA, too. It's really not that different.
You'd end up with a horrible, unfair review process, and people would complain no end about their right to run whatever they want on their computers being violated. Besides, if you wanted a reasonable amount of software to be available, there's no way they'd be able to review everything completely.
It looks like it's following the same pattern as Windows malware, too: make a cool screensaver, post it to sharing sites, hope people tell their friends about it. That was a common malware vector for Windows in the early part of this decade. Next there'll be dodgy "codecs" on pr0n sites, and once people start using malware scanners for Linux, they'll make dodgy fake antivirus software to con gullible users. Netbooks may be great for attracting attention to Linux, but we have to remember that this will include the kind of attention that no-one wants.
The sub-$100 laser printers are just as bad as the sub-$100 inkjets: they come with starter cartridges, they don't have network hardware on-board, the consumables are expensive, they aren't rated for high duty cycle, etc. You get what you pay for.
Waterproof colour print that looks great on plain paper, very low cost per page, built-in duplexer, on-site service for five years from purchase, higher duty cycle, etc. I know a good inkjet can produce better-looking print on special glossy paper, but on plain paper, the laser wins hands down.
That's because you're buying cheap loss-leader printers. My $1,000 colour laser printer came with full-capacity toner cartridges. The best thing that could happen would be for people to break the cycle and refuse to buy these crappy printers and their expensive ink. But that'll never happen - people find low initial outlay very attractive.
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That won't help you all that much. Not all traffic contributes to your usage for the purposes of billing. For example, on Internode in Australia, downloading from Internode's software mirror archive or watching ABC streaming TV doesn't contribute to billed usage, so you'd need to do some funky configuration of your router to account for that.
I'm allergic to selfish arseholes who seem to have forgotten that they were babies at one point. Where can I get an AK-59, so I can use them for target practice?
Doesn't work. At least in Australia, if you swipe a chip'n'PIN card on a POS terminal, it will just tell you to insert it so it can read the chip. There may be a magic code to override this, but you'd need a service manual for each device to find out how to do it.
If you had comprehension skills, you'd be able to ascertain that it relates to an implementation of an arbitrary precision numerics engine, a la GNU MultiPrecision (aka GMP). The technique has been around for close to a century, if not longer.
IBM AS/400 worked like that - the TIMI virtual machine maps all storage into a flat 128-bit address space.
Oak Technologies is alive and well. They just got out of video cards when they realised they couldn't compete, and decided to concentrate on their core business - PostScript engines. My big colour laser has an Oak Technologies PostScript runtime card that works very nicely.
I know what they are - I was trying (unsuccessfully) to go for a funny mod by playing on the practice of complaining about not defining terms in summaries.
WTF are "Johnny 5" and "Debian Etch"? If I'm too lazy to RTFA, you shouldn't expect me to have to look up what the items on the list are. ;)
F1 is naturally aspirated.
You're not serious, but I'll answer anyway. Although he may have one for the RBMK, you it isn't one of the eight in that Wired pictorial.
Speak with awesome hardarse Russian gangster accents ... fail
The illegal prostitutes do a roaring trade. It's a huge industry.
You have been able to buy magazines of artsy nude photos legitimately for about three years now. Anything more explicit than that is illegal. That doesn't mean you can't get it, though - pr0n DVDs are very easy to find.
Dude, did you read the linked article? He was driving a Holden Commodore - it's a General Motors V8 sedan. Most of the hooning deaths in Australia are in Ford and Holden V8s.
Yeah, it's all great until you kill someone in an effort to lengthen your pathetically small penis. Oh, and the DEC VAX is a supermini - not a mainframe (the PDP-10 was the mainframe).
No, seriously, cards are faster in businesses that support pre-swipe. Woolworths/Safeway supermarkets in Australia are the only ones I've had experience with. While the checkout chick (or dude) scans your items, you swipe your card, and select whether you want to pay the sale amount, or enter an amount manually. When all your items are scanned, you are shown the total amount and prompted to enter your PIN and OK, or cancel the transaction. Making a connection to the bank is fast - these places have always-on ISDN. Card payments using transient analog dial-up connections are slow - I'll grant you that - but that's not what we're talking about here.
I think you're missing the point. It's about laptops per se - it's encouraging dissent. You get locked up for "supporting terrorism" in the USA, too. It's really not that different.
So where is this magical Ford engine at now? A one-off prototype car is no better than a single experimental engine.
You forgot to use a car analogy!
You'd end up with a horrible, unfair review process, and people would complain no end about their right to run whatever they want on their computers being violated. Besides, if you wanted a reasonable amount of software to be available, there's no way they'd be able to review everything completely.
Malware doesn't need to exploit vulnerabilities in the software: it only needs vulnerable users. There is no way to patch that.
It looks like it's following the same pattern as Windows malware, too: make a cool screensaver, post it to sharing sites, hope people tell their friends about it. That was a common malware vector for Windows in the early part of this decade. Next there'll be dodgy "codecs" on pr0n sites, and once people start using malware scanners for Linux, they'll make dodgy fake antivirus software to con gullible users. Netbooks may be great for attracting attention to Linux, but we have to remember that this will include the kind of attention that no-one wants.
The sub-$100 laser printers are just as bad as the sub-$100 inkjets: they come with starter cartridges, they don't have network hardware on-board, the consumables are expensive, they aren't rated for high duty cycle, etc. You get what you pay for.
Waterproof colour print that looks great on plain paper, very low cost per page, built-in duplexer, on-site service for five years from purchase, higher duty cycle, etc. I know a good inkjet can produce better-looking print on special glossy paper, but on plain paper, the laser wins hands down.
That's because you're buying cheap loss-leader printers. My $1,000 colour laser printer came with full-capacity toner cartridges. The best thing that could happen would be for people to break the cycle and refuse to buy these crappy printers and their expensive ink. But that'll never happen - people find low initial outlay very attractive.