You can easily have a little more or less salt, sugar or flour in your food. However, software is not so forgiving. Change one character and you screw up badly..
Just try substituting a tsp with a tbsp of salt in your favorite recipe and then tell me food it forgiving.
Chat channels were useful. It was easy to make online friends who you enjoyed playing with. Also custom games made original Starcraft shine. I remember playing a lot of turret defense when I got bored with regular play. Now I can't even have a lan party. SC2 is lame on many levels. It seems the people that like it the most are people who never truly experienced the original.
I really don't know how to respond. Evidently you agree with me on everything except the definition of 'very few'. Maybe I should have said "a small number", or even "the minority". If you are really that desperate for a fight, could you at least pick it with me when I say something stupid? You shouldn't have to wait too long, I post all the time.
There is a reason why very few companies last over 100 years, the longer it exists the harder it is to change. Right now network execs are still thinking in terms of time slots, competing with the other guy, and other outmoded concepts. The internet does scare them, that's why many shows are unavailable until a few days after airing. If consumers stop watching when the show is on the air they might be watching something else! The silly thing about this is DVRs have made timeslots meaningless, and have also made commercials easy to skip through. If they really wanted to profit they would embrace the internet and start showing all their programing online with ads so that the viewer can decide what he or she wants to watch and when.
I find it highly doubtful that the President was unaware the codes were missing. They are HIS codes. I don't know what would be worse, that the president knew the codes were missing and asked his aids to cover, or that the President himself didn't care enough about the launch codes to KNOW where they were at all times. Either way, somebody should have been court martialed.
Yeah, but China already imports something very important to the US, our debt. Try to talk the politicians into biting the hand that gives them infinitely deep pockets. I don't care what side of the isle your on, it's not gonna happen.
Cooking bacon with USB is equally as hard/creative as a Roomba dog walker. In fact it's only a couple steps below perpetual motion or "I solved unified field theory" again. If you want something impressive it has to both require time and skill, while at the same time providing pretty pictures that let us drool about. The Moller flying car for example. Otherwise you might as well create USB powered desktop cold fusion with a boring glass of water that may release a buble every few minutes. -Sorry, NyQuil induced rant.
Pick up a textbook, or even go to wikipedia. There are plenty of reasons for the great depression, in fact there have been quite a few times the economy has been in that territory. The question you need to ask is not what caused it, but instead what prolonged it. The economy swings like a pendulum and will continue to do such, but why did it end up stuck at the bottom for so long that time? I'll let you do your homework, but let me tell you this: If you leave it alone it will right itself and has done so in the past. Let the winners win, let the losers lose, let the banks that were stupid fail, and let those who were responsible with their money keep it. Sure it's painful in the short run, but either you deal with a lot of pain now or a lot of pain over a decade.
I do believe that if the fundamental problems with the economy are fixed then a real focused stimulus can work. The problem is that the fundamental problems are not fixed. We still have CEOs who are in the job for a couple years to make profit at the expense of the long term survivability of the company. We still have a manufacturing sector which cannot compete on price and is slowly losing the competition of quality. We have government spending and regulations which were written by businesses for the purpose of harming their competitors and boosting their bottom line. Also, we have a system of taxation which only protects the extremely wealthy and the poor while destroying anyone trying to create a business. Add to this a series of 'stimulus' bills which either put money into the hands of businesses which don't deserve it, or create government jobs which do not produce anything of positive economic impact. It's like trying to get your family out of debt by giving your kids more chores and raising their allowances, sure more work is getting done, but there is no extra money coming in. It's just shuffling money around and lining different peoples pockets with no real purpose. The congressmen in Washington are almost no different from their corporate counterparts, the only difference is that CEOs are out the door in a couple of years letting someone else pick up the pieces.
Manufacturers would be happy if they could at least sell their products here. If you want to jump start other economies to jump start ours then you have the cart in front of the horse. Right now China's economy is suffering because ours is and you don't see them spending large amounts of money over here.
More likely they just placed a vote against the other guy. You don't always support the person you like, sometimes you support the person you hate less.
If someone is willing to pay $30 for a firmware update, then they probably do need someone to do it for them. I bet a lot of people on slashdot pay someone to change their oil/spark plugs/air filter. Same idea.
When the Obama Administration claims the right to ASSASSINATE CITIZENS without due process, I'm not surprised that a little thing like blocking websites doesn't merit due process either.
Don't know why the parent got modded troll. Guess putting your fingers in your ears and modding someone troll is an appropriate response to news you don't want to believe.
I agree with most of what you said. Not every drug user is a drug addict, but they are drug users which in many fields is a BAD thing regardless of casual/addict. What you say about yourself and who you associate with is a pretty clear indicator of who you are, and I can't fault the company too much for being able to research things publicly posted. It does feel like a huge invasion of privacy though, despite being one that people bring upon themselves. I still haven't taken the plunge into internet social networking because I really don't want strangers knowing anything about me, and I don't feel the need to tell 100 of my closest friends about the nice dinner I just ate. Guess I'm getting old.
The Keyeslabs app was for screen backlight, so I doubt there are any high scores. Also wouldn't that technique give false positives if the app is reinstalled on the same phone? If it's a unique identifier tied to the hardware of each phone then that could clear up some questions but leads to others. What if you break your phone and have it replaced? Is the identifier linked to network so it shows as pirated while roaming? There are any number of ways the numbers could be flubbed up, and I find it pretty doubtful that the pirates have made a backlight utility a prime target. Also, what kind of pirate releases an app that phones home?
Translation: Did they give us any information that will give us any excuse to excuse the pirates?
This is not a fair statement. If the article had any facts to back up it's numbers then it would be a lot more believable. Just defending the article without questioning it is as bad as defending the pirates without looking at the cost to the developer. Lets agree to this: It's a bad article and proves nothing on it's own.
I read the article and still have no idea how piracy rate is determined. Over at Keyslabs there is a writeup which covers licensing, but nothing showing how pirates are detected. Maybe it's to prevent the pirates from getting smart, but being closed about your statistics is worse than having no statistics at all. We have no way of validating the numbers against false positives so to counter I have embedded a script in this post which detects theft and have found that 95% of the people who read this are plagiarizing it for their own posts. There now we can all have statistics.
From the website: 'Whatever you do, don't plug an HSDL device into a SAS RAID card (or vice versa)! '
Although I dislike proprietary connectors for generic signals, I dislike interchangeable connectors for different signals even more. Can someone with a bit more knowledge explain why this could ever be a good idea, or how this is not going to smoke hardware.
I just hope they don't continue the saga of editing. I saw one of the re-release versions at a friends house a few years ago, I can't remember which "special" edition it was, but it lacked the tone of the original in several scenes. It seems like Lucas wants to reinvent the series with every new release and each step gets it further from the great plot and characters of the original. Maybe in this version they can make Luke blue and give Leigha 3 boobs.
Was there an actual problem or a perceived problem? Right now halloween candy is as safe as it has ever been, but we still have parents x-raying it and throwing out anything that isn't pre-packaged. (I for one blame the candy makers for turning a small number of crazy people into an epidemic.) Right now I can find plenty of articles showing the horrors of internet addiction, and with enough press time and the right politicians payed I could get draconian laws enacted. Does that make it an actual problem? Ok, bad example for slashdot.
Thanks for posting a source. Sorry but it is a pet peeve of mine. The comparison on mercury production over lifetime is not valid in it's posted form.
If you have a 7500 hour lifetime then it's 7500 hours * 20 Watts = 150,000 Watt hours or 150 Kwh. Now about 50% of electricity generation is coal so (75 Kwh from coal) * (.0234 mg mercury per Kwh) = 1.755 mg of mercury. (1.755 mg of mercury from power consumption.) + (5mg from the bulb) = 6.755 mg of mercury.
Compare to a incandescent: (75 watt bulb) * (7500 hours of life) = 562,500 watt hours of 562.5 Kwh. (562.5 Kwh)* (.5 for coal production) * (.0234 mg mercury per Kwh)= 6.58 mg of mercury. And 6.755>6.58
So even from the article you posted there is more mercury used for CFLs.
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You can easily have a little more or less salt, sugar or flour in your food. However, software is not so forgiving. Change one character and you screw up badly..
Just try substituting a tsp with a tbsp of salt in your favorite recipe and then tell me food it forgiving.
But if you put a SSD in a 386 you would see a noticeable performance boost, and on very cheap hardware too. I saw a press release which proved it.
Chat channels were useful. It was easy to make online friends who you enjoyed playing with. Also custom games made original Starcraft shine. I remember playing a lot of turret defense when I got bored with regular play. Now I can't even have a lan party. SC2 is lame on many levels. It seems the people that like it the most are people who never truly experienced the original.
I really don't know how to respond. Evidently you agree with me on everything except the definition of 'very few'. Maybe I should have said "a small number", or even "the minority". If you are really that desperate for a fight, could you at least pick it with me when I say something stupid? You shouldn't have to wait too long, I post all the time.
There is a reason why very few companies last over 100 years, the longer it exists the harder it is to change. Right now network execs are still thinking in terms of time slots, competing with the other guy, and other outmoded concepts. The internet does scare them, that's why many shows are unavailable until a few days after airing. If consumers stop watching when the show is on the air they might be watching something else! The silly thing about this is DVRs have made timeslots meaningless, and have also made commercials easy to skip through. If they really wanted to profit they would embrace the internet and start showing all their programing online with ads so that the viewer can decide what he or she wants to watch and when.
I find it highly doubtful that the President was unaware the codes were missing. They are HIS codes. I don't know what would be worse, that the president knew the codes were missing and asked his aids to cover, or that the President himself didn't care enough about the launch codes to KNOW where they were at all times. Either way, somebody should have been court martialed.
Yeah, but China already imports something very important to the US, our debt. Try to talk the politicians into biting the hand that gives them infinitely deep pockets. I don't care what side of the isle your on, it's not gonna happen.
Cooking bacon with USB is equally as hard/creative as a Roomba dog walker. In fact it's only a couple steps below perpetual motion or "I solved unified field theory" again. If you want something impressive it has to both require time and skill, while at the same time providing pretty pictures that let us drool about. The Moller flying car for example. Otherwise you might as well create USB powered desktop cold fusion with a boring glass of water that may release a buble every few minutes. -Sorry, NyQuil induced rant.
Pick up a textbook, or even go to wikipedia. There are plenty of reasons for the great depression, in fact there have been quite a few times the economy has been in that territory. The question you need to ask is not what caused it, but instead what prolonged it. The economy swings like a pendulum and will continue to do such, but why did it end up stuck at the bottom for so long that time? I'll let you do your homework, but let me tell you this: If you leave it alone it will right itself and has done so in the past. Let the winners win, let the losers lose, let the banks that were stupid fail, and let those who were responsible with their money keep it. Sure it's painful in the short run, but either you deal with a lot of pain now or a lot of pain over a decade.
I do believe that if the fundamental problems with the economy are fixed then a real focused stimulus can work. The problem is that the fundamental problems are not fixed. We still have CEOs who are in the job for a couple years to make profit at the expense of the long term survivability of the company. We still have a manufacturing sector which cannot compete on price and is slowly losing the competition of quality. We have government spending and regulations which were written by businesses for the purpose of harming their competitors and boosting their bottom line. Also, we have a system of taxation which only protects the extremely wealthy and the poor while destroying anyone trying to create a business. Add to this a series of 'stimulus' bills which either put money into the hands of businesses which don't deserve it, or create government jobs which do not produce anything of positive economic impact. It's like trying to get your family out of debt by giving your kids more chores and raising their allowances, sure more work is getting done, but there is no extra money coming in. It's just shuffling money around and lining different peoples pockets with no real purpose. The congressmen in Washington are almost no different from their corporate counterparts, the only difference is that CEOs are out the door in a couple of years letting someone else pick up the pieces.
Manufacturers would be happy if they could at least sell their products here. If you want to jump start other economies to jump start ours then you have the cart in front of the horse. Right now China's economy is suffering because ours is and you don't see them spending large amounts of money over here.
It's not growth, its 'growth' TM. Just like it's not fiscal irresponsibility, it's 'stimulus'.
More likely they just placed a vote against the other guy. You don't always support the person you like, sometimes you support the person you hate less.
If someone is willing to pay $30 for a firmware update, then they probably do need someone to do it for them. I bet a lot of people on slashdot pay someone to change their oil/spark plugs/air filter. Same idea.
When the Obama Administration claims the right to ASSASSINATE CITIZENS without due process, I'm not surprised that a little thing like blocking websites doesn't merit due process either.
Don't know why the parent got modded troll. Guess putting your fingers in your ears and modding someone troll is an appropriate response to news you don't want to believe.
Nothing. I was making two separate points.
I agree with most of what you said. Not every drug user is a drug addict, but they are drug users which in many fields is a BAD thing regardless of casual/addict. What you say about yourself and who you associate with is a pretty clear indicator of who you are, and I can't fault the company too much for being able to research things publicly posted. It does feel like a huge invasion of privacy though, despite being one that people bring upon themselves. I still haven't taken the plunge into internet social networking because I really don't want strangers knowing anything about me, and I don't feel the need to tell 100 of my closest friends about the nice dinner I just ate. Guess I'm getting old.
The Keyeslabs app was for screen backlight, so I doubt there are any high scores. Also wouldn't that technique give false positives if the app is reinstalled on the same phone? If it's a unique identifier tied to the hardware of each phone then that could clear up some questions but leads to others. What if you break your phone and have it replaced? Is the identifier linked to network so it shows as pirated while roaming? There are any number of ways the numbers could be flubbed up, and I find it pretty doubtful that the pirates have made a backlight utility a prime target. Also, what kind of pirate releases an app that phones home?
Translation: Did they give us any information that will give us any excuse to excuse the pirates?
This is not a fair statement. If the article had any facts to back up it's numbers then it would be a lot more believable. Just defending the article without questioning it is as bad as defending the pirates without looking at the cost to the developer. Lets agree to this: It's a bad article and proves nothing on it's own.
I read the article and still have no idea how piracy rate is determined. Over at Keyslabs there is a writeup which covers licensing, but nothing showing how pirates are detected. Maybe it's to prevent the pirates from getting smart, but being closed about your statistics is worse than having no statistics at all. We have no way of validating the numbers against false positives so to counter I have embedded a script in this post which detects theft and have found that 95% of the people who read this are plagiarizing it for their own posts. There now we can all have statistics.
From the website: 'Whatever you do, don't plug an HSDL device into a SAS RAID card (or vice versa)! '
Although I dislike proprietary connectors for generic signals, I dislike interchangeable connectors for different signals even more. Can someone with a bit more knowledge explain why this could ever be a good idea, or how this is not going to smoke hardware.
I just hope they don't continue the saga of editing. I saw one of the re-release versions at a friends house a few years ago, I can't remember which "special" edition it was, but it lacked the tone of the original in several scenes. It seems like Lucas wants to reinvent the series with every new release and each step gets it further from the great plot and characters of the original. Maybe in this version they can make Luke blue and give Leigha 3 boobs.
sorry guess I didn't make it obvious enough.
Was there an actual problem or a perceived problem? Right now halloween candy is as safe as it has ever been, but we still have parents x-raying it and throwing out anything that isn't pre-packaged. (I for one blame the candy makers for turning a small number of crazy people into an epidemic.) Right now I can find plenty of articles showing the horrors of internet addiction, and with enough press time and the right politicians payed I could get draconian laws enacted. Does that make it an actual problem? Ok, bad example for slashdot.
If you have a 7500 hour lifetime then it's 7500 hours * 20 Watts = 150,000 Watt hours or 150 Kwh. Now about 50% of electricity generation is coal so (75 Kwh from coal) * (.0234 mg mercury per Kwh) = 1.755 mg of mercury. (1.755 mg of mercury from power consumption.) + (5mg from the bulb) = 6.755 mg of mercury.
Compare to a incandescent: (75 watt bulb) * (7500 hours of life) = 562,500 watt hours of 562.5 Kwh. (562.5 Kwh)* (.5 for coal production) * (.0234 mg mercury per Kwh)= 6.58 mg of mercury. And 6.755>6.58
So even from the article you posted there is more mercury used for CFLs.