Most people in the US also have taxes taken out of their paychecks throughout the year. Filing your taxes at the end of the year just handles over/under-payment & accounts from other sources of income and various sorts of deductions. People make a big deal about it but, in all honesty, I've never had to spend more than about an hour on the process (single, one regular job, no significant investments).
In practice unless there is an incentive for sharing there is a good chance they won't be "kept free and open", rather they will remain completely undistributed and locked up.
This is precisely why Wikipedia will never succeed.
Standing on a street corner, going to the maps and asking for my current location results in locations quite a ways away from my location. Maybe I have a defective GPS reciever. All I know is that I would never even try to rely on this GPS to give me directions.
If you think the iPhone is bad, my G1, an actual Android device, is nearly worthless. My friends' iPhones can usually pin you down to within a block or so when outside. My G1 might get you within a quarter mile - It's only slightly more accurate than searching on my current zip-code.
Does that mean that after watching some gambling addict drop their entire SSI check into a video lottery machine and walk away empty handed, I actually do have a better chance of getting a big hit if drop $5 in?
The lowest you'd be able to go would be a 386sx - previous x86 machines didn't have a 32-bit protected mode. There's some other unix-like systems that you might be able to get running on older gear but there's going to be limited software availability.
In a nutshell, schizophrenia is, when you stop accepting external factors for cause and effect, but start to make your own inner rules, which are detached from reality (the delusions), and act like this were the reality. They often think they would have some superhuman control over (their) "reality" too.
It's sad to think that people can be so detached from reality. I pray for them.
Domain speculation is closer to racketeering than a legitimate business. They provide no real value & simply exploit a weakness in the system to extort money from people doing useful work.
Distribution of physical media is expensive and, given that nearly every PC worth speaking of will be on the 'net, why bother with shrinkwrap distribution at all? Online distribution channels such as Valve's Steam and Stardock's Impulse allow you to skip over the brick and mortar middleman completely. The systems handle purchasing, online distribution, updating, network game matchmaking & present a far lower barrier to entry for small software houses while providing a mechanism for purchasing games that's as convenient as downloading a pirated copy.
Isn't the standard line that "nothing good is coming from Hollywood anyways"? It's not like you need to watch new movies to be entertained. A quick look at Netflix shows that they have "over 100,000 titles". Doing some quick math shows that you could watch 2 movies a day for the next 136 years without relying on anything new.
Without regard to the sort of content being dealt whith, it's completely irrational to apply any sort of standards to data-center power consumption. A data-center that simply regurgitates static continent is going to have significantly different power requirements than a site that is actively dealing with processing and transcoding user-generated content. Compare Youtube to a high-volume brochure-ware site for an extreme example.
The best the EPA could produce, without creating an unnecessary burden on hosts would be to publish standards for OSes and hardware when idle. Anything beyond that is infeasible - govt mandated requirements to use O(log(n)) algorithms instead of O(n^2) ones would be patently absurd.
Creative cards are primarily targeted at gamers. Gamers don't care much for SNR, what they care about is hardware accelerated sound taking load off the CPU. Most non-Creative cards up until now have been limited to EAX 2.0 which only gives you 32 channels of sound. Modern Creative cards are up to 128-channels with effects & higher quality audio. What makes this card interesting is that it has EAX 5.0 compatability.
The confusion is that apparently the auction is sufficiently arcane that Google had to keep the bidding up themselves to get the price above the reserve price (the auction didn't start at the reserve price), but that once it got there Verizon did in fact outbid them.
Nah... Verizon was just waiting to snipe the auction at the last minute.
It's really hard to keep loyalty in the first few years of an IT career when you can easily get a 25% (or more) salary boost by jumping ship to another company after a year yet very few companies are willing to hand out those sorts of raises to keep employees on board. This isn't a new thing - it was just as true in the 80s as it is today.
I've never actually met a self-professed Libertarian that wasn't primarily motivated by greed - it only takes a little questioning to get past their parroting of the party line and realize that their core belief isn't "government shouldn't be involved with..." but "I don't want to pay for that".
It would take a dumb mother fucker to think they could detonate a nuclear missile on his own people to retain control and power....unless you convince the people that it came from an outside source & they need your protection -more- than ever.
There's a problem when you describe a continuously evolving thing in terms of absolutes - just like how 'Modernism' describes what was going on from the 1880s to 1920.
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Most people in the US also have taxes taken out of their paychecks throughout the year. Filing your taxes at the end of the year just handles over/under-payment & accounts from other sources of income and various sorts of deductions. People make a big deal about it but, in all honesty, I've never had to spend more than about an hour on the process (single, one regular job, no significant investments).
This is precisely why Wikipedia will never succeed.
Standing on a street corner, going to the maps and asking for my current location results in locations quite a ways away from my location. Maybe I have a defective GPS reciever. All I know is that I would never even try to rely on this GPS to give me directions.
If you think the iPhone is bad, my G1, an actual Android device, is nearly worthless. My friends' iPhones can usually pin you down to within a block or so when outside. My G1 might get you within a quarter mile - It's only slightly more accurate than searching on my current zip-code.
Even better - last time I restarted Firefox it popped up a message saying :
Does that mean that after watching some gambling addict drop their entire SSI check into a video lottery machine and walk away empty handed, I actually do have a better chance of getting a big hit if drop $5 in?
I don't know about CDs but in a previous life I tracked/projected DVD sales for a living. For DVD's, Walmart is over 50% of the market.
The lowest you'd be able to go would be a 386sx - previous x86 machines didn't have a 32-bit protected mode. There's some other unix-like systems that you might be able to get running on older gear but there's going to be limited software availability.
It's sad to think that people can be so detached from reality. I pray for them.
Domain speculation is closer to racketeering than a legitimate business. They provide no real value & simply exploit a weakness in the system to extort money from people doing useful work.
Wouldn't it be nice if there was a a tool that let you run outdated software, including all of its OS dependencies, in a little walled garden, allowing you to run modern software for all other uses?
It'd be even cooler if we could get major OS vendors to provide this functionality as part of the OS
Distribution of physical media is expensive and, given that nearly every PC worth speaking of will be on the 'net, why bother with shrinkwrap distribution at all? Online distribution channels such as Valve's Steam and Stardock's Impulse allow you to skip over the brick and mortar middleman completely. The systems handle purchasing, online distribution, updating, network game matchmaking & present a far lower barrier to entry for small software houses while providing a mechanism for purchasing games that's as convenient as downloading a pirated copy.
Isn't the standard line that "nothing good is coming from Hollywood anyways"? It's not like you need to watch new movies to be entertained. A quick look at Netflix shows that they have "over 100,000 titles". Doing some quick math shows that you could watch 2 movies a day for the next 136 years without relying on anything new.
Finally, reality TV that I can get into...
Without regard to the sort of content being dealt whith, it's completely irrational to apply any sort of standards to data-center power consumption. A data-center that simply regurgitates static continent is going to have significantly different power requirements than a site that is actively dealing with processing and transcoding user-generated content. Compare Youtube to a high-volume brochure-ware site for an extreme example.
The best the EPA could produce, without creating an unnecessary burden on hosts would be to publish standards for OSes and hardware when idle. Anything beyond that is infeasible - govt mandated requirements to use O(log(n)) algorithms instead of O(n^2) ones would be patently absurd.
Creative cards are primarily targeted at gamers. Gamers don't care much for SNR, what they care about is hardware accelerated sound taking load off the CPU. Most non-Creative cards up until now have been limited to EAX 2.0 which only gives you 32 channels of sound. Modern Creative cards are up to 128-channels with effects & higher quality audio. What makes this card interesting is that it has EAX 5.0 compatability.
The confusion is that apparently the auction is sufficiently arcane that Google had to keep the bidding up themselves to get the price above the reserve price (the auction didn't start at the reserve price), but that once it got there Verizon did in fact outbid them.
Nah... Verizon was just waiting to snipe the auction at the last minute.
In some Islamic countries apostasy is still a capital offense.
I'd rather be in court than a box.
It's really hard to keep loyalty in the first few years of an IT career when you can easily get a 25% (or more) salary boost by jumping ship to another company after a year yet very few companies are willing to hand out those sorts of raises to keep employees on board. This isn't a new thing - it was just as true in the 80s as it is today.
Not a big fan of nitpicking but, since this is /. :
Cold doesn't escape - heat gets in.
I've never actually met a self-professed Libertarian that wasn't primarily motivated by greed - it only takes a little questioning to get past their parroting of the party line and realize that their core belief isn't "government shouldn't be involved with..." but "I don't want to pay for that".
It would take a dumb mother fucker to think they could detonate a nuclear missile on his own people to retain control and power. ...unless you convince the people that it came from an outside source & they need your protection -more- than ever.
But where does the money go? Now that that founder is dead, who is getting the profits?
There's a problem when you describe a continuously evolving thing in terms of absolutes - just like how 'Modernism' describes what was going on from the 1880s to 1920.
I think a better example might be like...
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