If something is flying off the shelves faster than it can be produced it's probably underpriced. Hence Apple is raising the price at its first opportunity.
To extend your analogy, though, it's as if you signed a lease stating that you'd pay $500 in rent each month, but the landlord reserves the right to change the lease whenever he wants. When you agree to the Facebook TOS there's certainly a clause in there saying that they have the right to change it whenever they want, and if you don't like it you're free to stop using the service.
Why are printer drivers even required anymore? Mice and keyboards and USB flash drives and cameras can all be connected to computers and not require driver installation on any OS I've tried over the past 5 years. USB printers have been around for almost 10 years, why don't they all just support a basic, standard printer API? printMonochrome() and printColor()? Heck, even with an IP-based printer you still need drivers. Pretty stupid at this point, imo.
I really hope ebooks don't take off. I feel like we're headed toward the pay-per-reading world of RMS's "The Right To Read." When paper books go away we're fucked.
I can see the benefit in making meters network-enabled just to prevent having to send someone to read the meter physically, but why would you want to be able to control them remotely? That doesn't seem like it's worth the risk. Make the thing read-only, with some standard way of collecting the data - using SNMP or something.
$100 for 40 gigs isn't really cheap. It's $2.50/GB. I bought a 128 GB SSD a year ago for $340 - not that much more. By contrast, you can get SATA storage for under $0.15/gig. I think most things will tend toward SSD as the price drops, but this doesn't seem like a price drop. When SSD hits $1.00/gig it'll probably take off. SATA will still be used for huge raids though for the simple fact that even at $1.00/gig it's 10x the price of SATA.
The important thing isn't what Google.cn returns for someone in the USA, it's what it returns for someone in China. Why would the censoring be done by site rather than by querying IP?
Isn't the important thing what Google.cn returns for someone in the USA, it's what it returns for someone in China. Why would the censoring be done by site rather than by querying IP?
If they've identified the IP ranges, why not just block them? You can do it at the router or TCP level (drop packets), or just throw up a 403 Forbidden.
I also select text as I read it. Usually I'll select a line in a story and use the selected text as a visual marker so I can press Page Down and quickly see where I left off.
Extensions - specifically AdBlock Plus and LiveHTTPHeaders - are the only reason I use Firefox over Chrome. If those extensions go away I'll have no reason to continue using Firefox over Chrome, which is insanely fast by comparison.
Now that "real" pirates are back on the world stage, maybe we can get rid of this dumb use of the word pirate? I, at least, was pretty confused for a couple of seconds as to why pirates would do any sort of software trickery.
I may be wrong, but my understanding is that FarmVille is a nearly complete ripoff of FarmTown, and FarmTown has a lot more interesting features (interaction with other players, etc).
Hopefully this is a joke. A free market is a nice idea, as is using a competing service, but what do you do when there are only 4 or 5 players in the market, and they all charge an early termination fee? It's collusion.
You mentioned a Mac Mini, but what if you put Linux on the Mac Mini and clock it to 500 mhz? Maybe you can shut down one of the cores somehow to conserve more power.
If you're concerned with trust, why would you outsource in the first place? Why wouldn't you just hire someone in-house who you can interview in person and run a background check on? Sure it costs more, but at least you have control. If the company you've hired hires someone new, that's yet another person looking at your stuff.
As for having them come on-site, what good is that? An 8 gig USB Flash drive is like $10 now, and that could probably hold your entire SVN repository and all your.doc/.xls/.ppt documents.
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It didn't occur to me that the price would include VAT, do list prices in Europe normally include VAT? Guess I should've RTFA.
If something is flying off the shelves faster than it can be produced it's probably underpriced. Hence Apple is raising the price at its first opportunity.
To extend your analogy, though, it's as if you signed a lease stating that you'd pay $500 in rent each month, but the landlord reserves the right to change the lease whenever he wants. When you agree to the Facebook TOS there's certainly a clause in there saying that they have the right to change it whenever they want, and if you don't like it you're free to stop using the service.
I, for one, do not understand [...] just how Apple is making it better for the consumer this way."
Well, there's your problem. Apple's goal isn't to make things better for the consumer, it's to make money.
Why are printer drivers even required anymore? Mice and keyboards and USB flash drives and cameras can all be connected to computers and not require driver installation on any OS I've tried over the past 5 years. USB printers have been around for almost 10 years, why don't they all just support a basic, standard printer API? printMonochrome() and printColor()? Heck, even with an IP-based printer you still need drivers. Pretty stupid at this point, imo.
I really hope ebooks don't take off. I feel like we're headed toward the pay-per-reading world of RMS's "The Right To Read." When paper books go away we're fucked.
I can see the benefit in making meters network-enabled just to prevent having to send someone to read the meter physically, but why would you want to be able to control them remotely? That doesn't seem like it's worth the risk. Make the thing read-only, with some standard way of collecting the data - using SNMP or something.
$100 for 40 gigs isn't really cheap. It's $2.50/GB. I bought a 128 GB SSD a year ago for $340 - not that much more. By contrast, you can get SATA storage for under $0.15/gig. I think most things will tend toward SSD as the price drops, but this doesn't seem like a price drop. When SSD hits $1.00/gig it'll probably take off. SATA will still be used for huge raids though for the simple fact that even at $1.00/gig it's 10x the price of SATA.
Good old Manifest Destiny!
Oh my heavens! A bug in a beta? What is the world coming to?
Put a 48-port Netgear switch on each phone pole and run Cat6 to the house. Done!
Oops... I need a do-over:
The important thing isn't what Google.cn returns for someone in the USA, it's what it returns for someone in China. Why would the censoring be done by site rather than by querying IP?
Isn't the important thing what Google.cn returns for someone in the USA, it's what it returns for someone in China. Why would the censoring be done by site rather than by querying IP?
If they've identified the IP ranges, why not just block them? You can do it at the router or TCP level (drop packets), or just throw up a 403 Forbidden.
I also select text as I read it. Usually I'll select a line in a story and use the selected text as a visual marker so I can press Page Down and quickly see where I left off.
Extensions - specifically AdBlock Plus and LiveHTTPHeaders - are the only reason I use Firefox over Chrome. If those extensions go away I'll have no reason to continue using Firefox over Chrome, which is insanely fast by comparison.
I've used Postgres for years but this is the first I've heard of cross-database joins. When was that added?
Why would anyone expect the client to be able to filter out phishing attacks, unless it's looking up against some centralized DB?
Now that "real" pirates are back on the world stage, maybe we can get rid of this dumb use of the word pirate? I, at least, was pretty confused for a couple of seconds as to why pirates would do any sort of software trickery.
Or you could just click "Hide Farmville."
I may be wrong, but my understanding is that FarmVille is a nearly complete ripoff of FarmTown, and FarmTown has a lot more interesting features (interaction with other players, etc).
Hopefully this is a joke. A free market is a nice idea, as is using a competing service, but what do you do when there are only 4 or 5 players in the market, and they all charge an early termination fee? It's collusion.
You mentioned a Mac Mini, but what if you put Linux on the Mac Mini and clock it to 500 mhz? Maybe you can shut down one of the cores somehow to conserve more power.
Radio Shack is where you do a "format c:" on whatever computer they have on display... then get banned from the store. :(
If you're concerned with trust, why would you outsource in the first place? Why wouldn't you just hire someone in-house who you can interview in person and run a background check on? Sure it costs more, but at least you have control. If the company you've hired hires someone new, that's yet another person looking at your stuff.
As for having them come on-site, what good is that? An 8 gig USB Flash drive is like $10 now, and that could probably hold your entire SVN repository and all your .doc/.xls/.ppt documents.