I am pretty sure that they aren't going to be worried about everyone having ads plastered on their screen. I would guess that they will let you play your games ad-free, and you will be subsidized by the 90% of web users who are going to have a browser open.
I work at a company that uses Postgres with one of our products. When there are a lot of INSERTs into the Postgres database, it needs to be vaccuumed or it slows to a crawl.
At the end of the day, I couldn't give a crap whether or not my CPU that performs X teraflops does it by running a "dumb" core at extreme speed, or runs a really complex core at slow speed.
You might not care at the end of the day, but at the end of the month when your power bill comes in you might care at least a little bit.
I'd also be happy if people who voted would somehow be eligable for a reasonable tax break. That would bring in tons of people alone... But it wouldn't ever happen... A tax break that actually stood a chance of helping the poor and middle class? Not a chance.
Well yes, interesting idea, and maybe a good one. One potential problem with this, however, is that people (more than usual, that is) might vote without being informed. i.e. they'll go and make their mark just to get their tax break.
As long as you play consistantly, as you appear to do, then I would argue that you do have the time to do well. Your character will take more real time to level, but the same amount (or less, because of rested xp) of game time to level.
So you just keep hacking away at it bit by bit. You should spend your few hours a week doing things that are fun to you. Don't actually enjoy crafting? Then go questing. You don't need top-of-the-line gear to be decent in WoW. Sure, it might set you back from the "elite" players, but not everyone can be an elite player.
I think the more appropriate statistic would be computations per watt. Because land can be very cheap, but electricity doesn't have nearly the same variance across different parts of the world/country.
"Toy" seems pretty appropriate here. They seem to have bought it without fully knowing what they were going to do with it yet: "The institute will ask the public to propose specific themes of research activities using the supercomputer system."
Based on my experience working at a university helpdesk, it is a university's responsibility to make sure the students' computers are working. Justified or not - that is how it is.
Let's get one thing straight here. Downloading TV shows isn't "stealing". Is there a stack of TV shows that gets smaller when I download them? Furthermore, if I couldn't download the TV shows, I still wouldn't pay for cable.
And nowhere did I say I had a "right" to download TV shows.
You must enjoy very much getting to know people intimately based on a couple of paragraphs in a slashdot thread. Because evidently, you know my motivations behind everything.
Basically, the market isn't giving us what we want, so we will get it "illegally" anyway.
For instance, the entertainment industry could be making money off of me if I could download high-quality DRM-free TV shows at the same time they are released on TV. But, there isn't anything close to something like this being offered, so I go on BitTorrent because the stuff is there. It isn't because I am a cheapskate, but because this is the only place I can get what I want. Almost none of us give a shit if it is legal or not.
I, too, had a shitty Geocities webpage. What did I make the site about? NBA Live '96 (computer game). Did I actually think that the site was useful, or even mildly entertaining? Not a chance.
The point is that I learned how to write HTML using Geocities...when I was 13. And no one was forced to read it; it wasn't delivered to peoples' inboxes or anything like that.
Perhaps we can look at blogs under the same light. Blogs can be used as a tool for people to learn how to write more clearly. They can be used as a tool for people to learn how to express their emotions.
Sure, we can all comment on what percentage of blogs are crap, as you seem to have done. But what really irks me is that people seem that blogs as a whole should go away because of the average quality. Well, along those lines, we could also go ahead and get rid of newspapers, magazines, and television shows.
I sent a full reply to your email, but I thought everyone here reading should know that the support is done by real Americans in San Antonio. Anything that requires physical access is done by a datacenter monkey. And depending on the skill of the monkey, they might also do some things that don't require physical access to close out the ticket.
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I am pretty sure that they aren't going to be worried about everyone having ads plastered on their screen. I would guess that they will let you play your games ad-free, and you will be subsidized by the 90% of web users who are going to have a browser open.
Let's not also forget that OSX is based on FreeBSD. So it isn't like they produced it from scratch.
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I believe the original poster was referring to the end user, but I could be wrong.
Yes. That is called copyright infringement. copyright infringement != stealing
We can have a seperate argument about the morality of both, but for now it is good just to get our terminology straight.
As I understand it, Linus never fully bought in to the cause. It seemed more like "Yeah, GPL works. Whatever. Now let's get back to work."
Wait, let me get this straight. Netscape is still putting out releases? Why?
See now, if they did come out with this, I think I would be torn between using GDrive and HavenCo for my off-site backup.
I guess it all depends if I feel particularly tin-foil-hatty that day or not.
Yeah, then it is that. I just do the cleaning up...don't know how the app actually works.
Ooh, thanks. I'll have to check into that.
I work at a company that uses Postgres with one of our products. When there are a lot of INSERTs into the Postgres database, it needs to be vaccuumed or it slows to a crawl.
At the end of the day, I couldn't give a crap whether or not my CPU that performs X teraflops does it by running a "dumb" core at extreme speed, or runs a really complex core at slow speed.
You might not care at the end of the day, but at the end of the month when your power bill comes in you might care at least a little bit.
I'd also be happy if people who voted would somehow be eligable for a reasonable tax break. That would bring in tons of people alone... But it wouldn't ever happen... A tax break that actually stood a chance of helping the poor and middle class? Not a chance.
Well yes, interesting idea, and maybe a good one. One potential problem with this, however, is that people (more than usual, that is) might vote without being informed. i.e. they'll go and make their mark just to get their tax break.
As long as you play consistantly, as you appear to do, then I would argue that you do have the time to do well. Your character will take more real time to level, but the same amount (or less, because of rested xp) of game time to level.
So you just keep hacking away at it bit by bit. You should spend your few hours a week doing things that are fun to you. Don't actually enjoy crafting? Then go questing. You don't need top-of-the-line gear to be decent in WoW. Sure, it might set you back from the "elite" players, but not everyone can be an elite player.
Well, if you're not going to use the fan, then plop the thing on a book.
I can't remember the last time I saw even one link.
I am guessing it was in 2002-2003.
I think the more appropriate statistic would be computations per watt. Because land can be very cheap, but electricity doesn't have nearly the same variance across different parts of the world/country.
What uses? TFA said particle accelerator research. So they're studying physics. What's wrong with that?
"Toy" seems pretty appropriate here. They seem to have bought it without fully knowing what they were going to do with it yet: "The institute will ask the public to propose specific themes of research activities using the supercomputer system."
Based on my experience working at a university helpdesk, it is a university's responsibility to make sure the students' computers are working. Justified or not - that is how it is.
Let's get one thing straight here. Downloading TV shows isn't "stealing". Is there a stack of TV shows that gets smaller when I download them? Furthermore, if I couldn't download the TV shows, I still wouldn't pay for cable.
And nowhere did I say I had a "right" to download TV shows.
You must enjoy very much getting to know people intimately based on a couple of paragraphs in a slashdot thread. Because evidently, you know my motivations behind everything.
Basically, the market isn't giving us what we want, so we will get it "illegally" anyway.
For instance, the entertainment industry could be making money off of me if I could download high-quality DRM-free TV shows at the same time they are released on TV. But, there isn't anything close to something like this being offered, so I go on BitTorrent because the stuff is there. It isn't because I am a cheapskate, but because this is the only place I can get what I want. Almost none of us give a shit if it is legal or not.
I have been thinking the same thing. I love almost everything on that site, but those anagram maps are fucking annoying.
I, too, had a shitty Geocities webpage. What did I make the site about? NBA Live '96 (computer game). Did I actually think that the site was useful, or even mildly entertaining? Not a chance.
The point is that I learned how to write HTML using Geocities...when I was 13. And no one was forced to read it; it wasn't delivered to peoples' inboxes or anything like that.
Perhaps we can look at blogs under the same light. Blogs can be used as a tool for people to learn how to write more clearly. They can be used as a tool for people to learn how to express their emotions.
Sure, we can all comment on what percentage of blogs are crap, as you seem to have done. But what really irks me is that people seem that blogs as a whole should go away because of the average quality. Well, along those lines, we could also go ahead and get rid of newspapers, magazines, and television shows.
I sent a full reply to your email, but I thought everyone here reading should know that the support is done by real Americans in San Antonio. Anything that requires physical access is done by a datacenter monkey. And depending on the skill of the monkey, they might also do some things that don't require physical access to close out the ticket.