Dual-layer are usually a couple bucks more, and personally I don't usually even have enough data that I want to back up to fill a single-layer anyway. Single-layer is the base standard, so while we're at it we might as well compare against Zip Drives. Although yes, I agree that it would have kind of made more sense to compare Blu-Rays.
What can you possibly need more than 16GB of RAM for? I'm really curious if you're not running a mainframe or a server or something, what you need it to do. Having your kernel constantly recompiling while exporting 2 HD movies at the same time?
True, but do you really think that a new format will be any better? We'll have to have another huge format war, waste a bazillion industry dollars, and then end up with a new format that MIGHT get taken up by everybody like DVD. Like Blu-Ray did? Yeah. And I'm not naive enough to think that even if the conglomerorporationompany didn't include Sony that the DRM would be any better. Maybe a little better initially, but it's bound to come back. Being nice to the customers just doesn't pay when the customers don't know better.
Well, the downloading and uploading doubles the amount of bandwidth you end up using. If there's a way to transfer them straight from one site to the other, that's a more elegant solution. (Not that your way wouldn't work, too.)
Yeah, exactly. When they come out with a PURE version that's JUST Hurd by itself, I'll...not really care. But it'll be interesting for historical reasons and laughter, I suppose.
I'd take it over flying standby on a puddle jumper.
...makes you immediately think of Stargate Atlantis. Apparently Dictionary.com says it's "a light plane, especially one traveling only short distances or making many stops." Huh, never heard that one before.
Regardless of whether there's an ellipsis involved, I allege that some amount of optimism is implied by the word "yet." If they didn't think that anybody would ever succeed, then they shouldn't bother saying "yet."
It's like me saying, "I really hate his fucking face" versus "I really hate his fucking face now." While they both technically mean the same thing, the latter implies that it may not be the case at some point in the future.
At least, that's my two cents' worth. So sorry if my either of my posts come off as confrontational.
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YES!! Alpha Centauri for the win.
It was written for King James, not by him.
Watch the rest of our country collapse from massive lack of funding?
Dual-layer are usually a couple bucks more, and personally I don't usually even have enough data that I want to back up to fill a single-layer anyway. Single-layer is the base standard, so while we're at it we might as well compare against Zip Drives. Although yes, I agree that it would have kind of made more sense to compare Blu-Rays.
Linux 3.0 feels a lot like Linux 3.0-rc7-git10.
That would be the definition of a Release Candidate, yeah.
What can you possibly need more than 16GB of RAM for? I'm really curious if you're not running a mainframe or a server or something, what you need it to do. Having your kernel constantly recompiling while exporting 2 HD movies at the same time?
Maybe the standard dual-layer DVDs you get films on, but the basic burnable DVD media is still single-layer, 4.7GB.
A large act of Congress? No wait, that would be measured in metric tons of (bull/)shit.
True, but do you really think that a new format will be any better? We'll have to have another huge format war, waste a bazillion industry dollars, and then end up with a new format that MIGHT get taken up by everybody like DVD. Like Blu-Ray did? Yeah. And I'm not naive enough to think that even if the conglomerorporationompany didn't include Sony that the DRM would be any better. Maybe a little better initially, but it's bound to come back. Being nice to the customers just doesn't pay when the customers don't know better.
+1 WTF
Not to mention that the whole thing is an allegorical story describing how the Israelites were immoral, but yeah.
"Real" as in "actually intended for people to believe, not just sarcastic." Yeesh.
Incest and rape, sure, but where is this donkey sex you refer to?
Technically that would be the Central Powers and the Allies. Wrong World War.
Coincidentally, the phoneme "mofl" reminds me of the sound someone might make while having something rammed down their throat.
Judoon? "Ro no ko flo sno blo rajakaflo?"
Well, the downloading and uploading doubles the amount of bandwidth you end up using. If there's a way to transfer them straight from one site to the other, that's a more elegant solution. (Not that your way wouldn't work, too.)
Klingon programmer quotes?
Yeah, exactly. When they come out with a PURE version that's JUST Hurd by itself, I'll...not really care. But it'll be interesting for historical reasons and laughter, I suppose.
You can't pick up bedrock without hacking, either.
I'd take it over flying standby on a puddle jumper.
...makes you immediately think of Stargate Atlantis. Apparently Dictionary.com says it's "a light plane, especially one traveling only short distances or making many stops." Huh, never heard that one before.
I thought the headline said "Blacks Find Way To Sell Consumers' Shopping Data" and did a double-take :-/
Regardless of whether there's an ellipsis involved, I allege that some amount of optimism is implied by the word "yet." If they didn't think that anybody would ever succeed, then they shouldn't bother saying "yet."
It's like me saying, "I really hate his fucking face" versus "I really hate his fucking face now." While they both technically mean the same thing, the latter implies that it may not be the case at some point in the future.
At least, that's my two cents' worth. So sorry if my either of my posts come off as confrontational.
Thank you, Captain Gross Stereotype.
We had a program that basically interpreted a subset of C++ for our "intro" CS course.