More like $200 or less if you watch bargains and visit the right sites. Go to newegg.com's "clearance centre" and they have an ASUS laptop running Windows 7 for $240.
If you can't afford or save $240 for a laptop it is time to reassess your priorities. Beer may not be as important as you think.
This may be so, but there are limits to how far this can go. Technology marches on and after ten years (IE6 came out in 2001) it's reasonable to expect people to start moving on.
I know, I realize, I am aware that the first instinct is always to say "how will this affect me?" but what also needs to be considered is "how am I affecting everyone else?" Computer technology progresses fast, and whatever your reasons for clinging to a 10 year old browser, the fact that many people do seriously impacts web designers, and the people who do use the latest browsers. The internet should be running a lot faster, working a lot better and looking a lot prettier than it does. It's not because so much backward compatibility is maintained.
I'm afraid at this point if you want to continue to use outdated technology, you will have to accept some companies leaving you behind.
A study performed by an educator at an educational institution, head of another organization dedicated to higher education. A man whose various jobs depend on people paying for higher education, whose entire existence revolves around higher education.
Did anyone seriously think this study would say anything BUT "get a degree"? It's like a Coke executive doing a study on whether you should drink Coke.
This has nothing to do with Zhang. ZodTTD also had his account suspended and all of his apps removed, which included numerous emulators such as PSX4Droid.
My money is on Nintendo for this. They already went on a witch hunt recently against any app involving Pokemon getting many of the best removed.
Is it just me, or is the big N getting just a little crazier than usual lately, when you add to all of this the 3DS TOS issues?
Neither - this is, in fact, about the extreme psychological damage that anime and manga can cause at an early age.
I'm living proof.
Potential side effects include: bleeding eyeballs from staying up too late with a new series, serious bandwidth costs and generally being beaten and mocked at school.
As a parent, you should be taking a reasonable amount of time to review whatever your (young) kids are viewing instead of trusting a bunch of strangers. If you don't like reading - too bad! Not all things billed as "responsibilities" (i.e. the responsibility of raising a child) are things you will enjoy!
Other than that, I'd strongly suggest that you present some proof that certain things can be psychologically harmful, including evidence that the child would even realize what they are being exposed to, before making nasty-nasty statements like that.
To look at it another way, all authors ever do is post their work somewhere in the hopes it will be read. It's no different than sending a story to a newspaper, a manuscript to a publishing company, a poem to a contest.
Leave it to the moderators to judge if it is worthy.
So you've got a bunch of lonely guards, holding loaded weapons and locked up in a little compound with you all day.
Oh, years ago they were feeling pretty zealot-y, but by now..... well, bending the religious dogma enough to keep a stash of porn around (after all, you've been loyal servants of Allah for years, he'll be ok with this one little transgression, a few extra prayers will take care of it...) might be considered a REALLY GOOD IDEA at this point.
Or you could just let them wander away from the compound and rape the women of the town you're staying in. That's CERTAIN not to attract attention.
In Canada, that'd be roughly a third, or less, of a typical cell phone contract. I'm paying close to $80 CDN a month for 65 minutes, unlimited texting, caller ID and a gb of data on a smartphone... and I know Canada's not the worst, although we're pretty bad.
I should qualify that statement, then, but you're quite right.
Capitalism, as defined by the American public... if you will.
This is a horrible statement, grammatically, but call a thing a thing long enough and it becomes that thing. Or to put it another way, if a great many people insist on calling a shovel a spade, then, rather unfortunately, the shovel eventually IS a spade.
You Americans are always freaking out about "socialism".... well then, stop whining when you can't keep up with the end result of a purely capitalist society.
Sink or swim. Do or die. Do or do not, Luke, there is no try. THAT is Capitalism. Blaming your lack of success on anyone but yourself is not.
Sorry CaptainAmerica, thought free speech and the right to protest was still important.
Don't know if I can word this in a way you'll understand this, but:
Trying to work with an utterly corrupt government to fix an utterly corrupt government does not work. Voting only perpetuates a broken system that is completely meaningless at this stage.
Protesting and writing your elected officials is laughably useless; nobody gets elected in the United States without either becoming: A, co-opted into the system, or B, marginalized into powerlessness.
Same goes for running for a position. Positions only go to those who are already puppets. Want to prove me wrong, show me the last non-Democrat or Republican president the United States had. I'll wait.
The system is designed to keep those in power, in power. It's self-perpetuating. And thanks to the incredible butchering they've perpetuated on the spirit of the Second Amendment - the one that grants American citizens the right to bear arms precisely so that the citizens could replace a corrupt government by force if necessary - nothing is going to change until the next major disaster.
On the bright side, we're due a serious global social collapse in the next 20-30 years or so. Maybe a little sooner. It's a pity I'll be to old to really enjoy it, but global anarchy does at least give me something to look forward to.
As for the ad hominem attacks in your "argument" - weak, man, weak. Personal attacks only weaken your position.
Remember, kids, being the biggest, baddest, meanest, toughest and most powerful xxcountryxxbully in the school means that nothing you do has to make sense or follow any sort of logic, as a xxnuclear missilexxxx"anti-terrorist operation"xx punch in the mouth will quiet any accusations of hypocrisy - and everyone involved is already aware of it.
Your xxGovernmentxxNeighbourhood Bully, terrorizing everyone else in the xxworldxxschoolyard into absolute, unthinking submission since, oh, let's say July 4, 1776.
Certain words and phrases have been redacted to protect the xxguiltyxxxxUnited States governmentxxyour friends in Washington.
I've been trying to avoid posting on my own story, but I think I do have to clarify a statement I made, from what I've seen here.
Yes, you're all absolutely right that nobody really wants PayPal to be the ones in charge of this, first off. Never said we did.
Beyond that, though... I think there's a serious point that everyone is missing, perhaps just because PayPal was what a lot of people focused on.
People are mentioning credit cards, debit cards, EFTPOS... and yes, they are all capable of doing much of what this does already. Absolutely, a credit card could be used for this purpose if you wanted to buy a gumball with a credit card and someone was silly enough to set up a machine for that purpose.
What can't be achieved with any of those is the ability to purchase anything, instantly.
For example: let's say you're sitting in a doctor's waiting room, you pick up a book and read the first chapter. Then you have to go for your appointment. You want to finish the book - you think it's fantastic. So you scan the code on the book and instantly buy a copy and have it shipped to your house.
Another example: you see an amazing movie in the theatre. On your way out, you scan a code and instantly preorder your DVD copy.
Going further, you can tie other functions into the payment - scan a code at a restaurant, your table is reserved and you will receive an SMS when your table is ready. Scan a code, you've reserved the next game at a pool table, and now the next game is keyed to your phone and won't start without it. Reserve tickets to a concert, your phone directs you to your seat and the seat is locked upright until you scan in. Reserve plane tickets, same thing, and your phone also functions as your passport and flight documents.
That's what I mean by the possibilities being endless. It allows for tying far more value to an EFT device, to the point where we will be able to buy nearly any standardized manufactured product the moment we see it without ever having to go to a store or find it on ebay.
Scary? Oh yeah. I can't even begin to imagine my own spending habits - which are bad enough as it is - with the ability to instantly purchase anything I see. It's exciting too, though, and will add a whole new level... no, will completely redefine our economy and marketing. Advertisements become more valuable, as anyone can buy directly from them. Storefronts lose value... I'm not so keen on that, but on the other hand, it means that stores will have to find new ways to be unique, and not just cookie cutter big box stores... and it will probably lower prices across the board.
I don't exactly hold an economics degree, but I'm still fascinated to see where this all leads.
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More like $200 or less if you watch bargains and visit the right sites. Go to newegg.com's "clearance centre" and they have an ASUS laptop running Windows 7 for $240.
If you can't afford or save $240 for a laptop it is time to reassess your priorities. Beer may not be as important as you think.
This may be so, but there are limits to how far this can go. Technology marches on and after ten years (IE6 came out in 2001) it's reasonable to expect people to start moving on.
I know, I realize, I am aware that the first instinct is always to say "how will this affect me?" but what also needs to be considered is "how am I affecting everyone else?" Computer technology progresses fast, and whatever your reasons for clinging to a 10 year old browser, the fact that many people do seriously impacts web designers, and the people who do use the latest browsers. The internet should be running a lot faster, working a lot better and looking a lot prettier than it does. It's not because so much backward compatibility is maintained.
I'm afraid at this point if you want to continue to use outdated technology, you will have to accept some companies leaving you behind.
Does the term "informed individual" include the people actually making the decision?
Because if so, we're kind of screwed...
Oh, for heaven's sakes folks, it was hyperbole.
Painless and self-renewing (or maybe reprogrammable!) nano-tattoos coming soon to flesh near you?
It's certainly been a staple of cyberpunk.
Isn't it funny how studies always prove exactly what people want them to prove?
The only real thing we've learned from academic studies in the last hundred years or so is how malleable numbers and language are.
Remember kids, everything you do both causes and cures cancer sooner or later... so just live your life and it should balance itself out in the end.
A study performed by an educator at an educational institution, head of another organization dedicated to higher education. A man whose various jobs depend on people paying for higher education, whose entire existence revolves around higher education.
Did anyone seriously think this study would say anything BUT "get a degree"? It's like a Coke executive doing a study on whether you should drink Coke.
This has nothing to do with Zhang. ZodTTD also had his account suspended and all of his apps removed, which included numerous emulators such as PSX4Droid.
My money is on Nintendo for this. They already went on a witch hunt recently against any app involving Pokemon getting many of the best removed.
Is it just me, or is the big N getting just a little crazier than usual lately, when you add to all of this the 3DS TOS issues?
Neither - this is, in fact, about the extreme psychological damage that anime and manga can cause at an early age.
I'm living proof.
Potential side effects include: bleeding eyeballs from staying up too late with a new series, serious bandwidth costs and generally being beaten and mocked at school.
As a parent, you should be taking a reasonable amount of time to review whatever your (young) kids are viewing instead of trusting a bunch of strangers. If you don't like reading - too bad! Not all things billed as "responsibilities" (i.e. the responsibility of raising a child) are things you will enjoy!
Other than that, I'd strongly suggest that you present some proof that certain things can be psychologically harmful, including evidence that the child would even realize what they are being exposed to, before making nasty-nasty statements like that.
Apple App Store MK-II anyone?
If it's a good story, why does it matter?
SlashDot is a great way to get good work read.
To look at it another way, all authors ever do is post their work somewhere in the hopes it will be read. It's no different than sending a story to a newspaper, a manuscript to a publishing company, a poem to a contest.
Leave it to the moderators to judge if it is worthy.
Sorry, my comment came out rather more snarky than intended. Should have replaced "you" with something a little more neutral.
I hear you about the glasses... problem is that you'd better be rich if you want to be able to see these days.
So you've got a bunch of lonely guards, holding loaded weapons and locked up in a little compound with you all day.
Oh, years ago they were feeling pretty zealot-y, but by now..... well, bending the religious dogma enough to keep a stash of porn around (after all, you've been loyal servants of Allah for years, he'll be ok with this one little transgression, a few extra prayers will take care of it...) might be considered a REALLY GOOD IDEA at this point.
Or you could just let them wander away from the compound and rape the women of the town you're staying in. That's CERTAIN not to attract attention.
It's a subtle push for you to actually learn how to spell.
I don't know about everyone else, but I'll certainly be writing my new MP about this.
In Canada, that'd be roughly a third, or less, of a typical cell phone contract. I'm paying close to $80 CDN a month for 65 minutes, unlimited texting, caller ID and a gb of data on a smartphone... and I know Canada's not the worst, although we're pretty bad.
I should qualify that statement, then, but you're quite right.
Capitalism, as defined by the American public... if you will.
This is a horrible statement, grammatically, but call a thing a thing long enough and it becomes that thing. Or to put it another way, if a great many people insist on calling a shovel a spade, then, rather unfortunately, the shovel eventually IS a spade.
So once again, the United States military is creating a game to interest teenagers in enlisting?
This is starting to become a disturbing trend... first America's Army, now.... err, MMOWGLI: The Jungle Book...
They might be possible, but then how would the telecomm giants justify drastically inflated bandwidth prices?
Always look for the money...
Adapt or die.
You Americans are always freaking out about "socialism".... well then, stop whining when you can't keep up with the end result of a purely capitalist society.
Sink or swim. Do or die. Do or do not, Luke, there is no try. THAT is Capitalism. Blaming your lack of success on anyone but yourself is not.
I think there's a lot of truth to this.
Sometimes, the harder someone is pushed, the stronger their drive ends up being.
I feel that a lot of people became rich and/or famous just because they were "pushing back" hard, as it were....
Besides which, doesn't the ability to think differently mean success in a lot of cases?
Now, the term "better adults" I might argue with.
Sorry CaptainAmerica, thought free speech and the right to protest was still important.
Don't know if I can word this in a way you'll understand this, but:
Trying to work with an utterly corrupt government to fix an utterly corrupt government does not work. Voting only perpetuates a broken system that is completely meaningless at this stage.
Protesting and writing your elected officials is laughably useless; nobody gets elected in the United States without either becoming: A, co-opted into the system, or B, marginalized into powerlessness.
Same goes for running for a position. Positions only go to those who are already puppets. Want to prove me wrong, show me the last non-Democrat or Republican president the United States had. I'll wait.
The system is designed to keep those in power, in power. It's self-perpetuating. And thanks to the incredible butchering they've perpetuated on the spirit of the Second Amendment - the one that grants American citizens the right to bear arms precisely so that the citizens could replace a corrupt government by force if necessary - nothing is going to change until the next major disaster.
On the bright side, we're due a serious global social collapse in the next 20-30 years or so. Maybe a little sooner. It's a pity I'll be to old to really enjoy it, but global anarchy does at least give me something to look forward to.
As for the ad hominem attacks in your "argument" - weak, man, weak. Personal attacks only weaken your position.
Remember, kids, being the biggest, baddest, meanest, toughest and most powerful xxcountryxx bully in the school means that nothing you do has to make sense or follow any sort of logic, as a xxnuclear missilexx xx"anti-terrorist operation"xx punch in the mouth will quiet any accusations of hypocrisy - and everyone involved is already aware of it.
Your xxGovernmentxx Neighbourhood Bully, terrorizing everyone else in the xxworldxx schoolyard into absolute, unthinking submission since, oh, let's say July 4, 1776.
Certain words and phrases have been redacted to protect the xxguiltyxx xxUnited States governmentxx your friends in Washington.
I've been trying to avoid posting on my own story, but I think I do have to clarify a statement I made, from what I've seen here.
Yes, you're all absolutely right that nobody really wants PayPal to be the ones in charge of this, first off. Never said we did.
Beyond that, though... I think there's a serious point that everyone is missing, perhaps just because PayPal was what a lot of people focused on.
People are mentioning credit cards, debit cards, EFTPOS... and yes, they are all capable of doing much of what this does already. Absolutely, a credit card could be used for this purpose if you wanted to buy a gumball with a credit card and someone was silly enough to set up a machine for that purpose.
What can't be achieved with any of those is the ability to purchase anything, instantly.
For example: let's say you're sitting in a doctor's waiting room, you pick up a book and read the first chapter. Then you have to go for your appointment. You want to finish the book - you think it's fantastic. So you scan the code on the book and instantly buy a copy and have it shipped to your house.
Another example: you see an amazing movie in the theatre. On your way out, you scan a code and instantly preorder your DVD copy.
Going further, you can tie other functions into the payment - scan a code at a restaurant, your table is reserved and you will receive an SMS when your table is ready. Scan a code, you've reserved the next game at a pool table, and now the next game is keyed to your phone and won't start without it. Reserve tickets to a concert, your phone directs you to your seat and the seat is locked upright until you scan in. Reserve plane tickets, same thing, and your phone also functions as your passport and flight documents.
That's what I mean by the possibilities being endless. It allows for tying far more value to an EFT device, to the point where we will be able to buy nearly any standardized manufactured product the moment we see it without ever having to go to a store or find it on ebay.
Scary? Oh yeah. I can't even begin to imagine my own spending habits - which are bad enough as it is - with the ability to instantly purchase anything I see. It's exciting too, though, and will add a whole new level... no, will completely redefine our economy and marketing. Advertisements become more valuable, as anyone can buy directly from them. Storefronts lose value... I'm not so keen on that, but on the other hand, it means that stores will have to find new ways to be unique, and not just cookie cutter big box stores... and it will probably lower prices across the board.
I don't exactly hold an economics degree, but I'm still fascinated to see where this all leads.