If a house is purchased, then by implication, it is to be sold at some point. certainly this is usually the case nowadays.
But before you sell it, you're going to live in it. That is its purpose; buying a house to be an investment is a poor decision. Invest in actual investments. Buy a home to live in it.
Therefore any modification made to a house should ideally be done with its effect on resale value.
On the contrary, any modification should ideally be done with regards to its effect on how happy it makes you to live in it. Be miserable to some vague notion of increasing the resale value? (Are you really going to be spot on as to what's trendy five or ten years from now?) Bah. Be happy and invest in some nice stock to make money.
If the bulbs were not made unavailable (banned) then there are those that would continue to use them because of either some perceived benefit of incandescents over CFLs, an irrational aversion to change, or for no other reason than to be contrary.
"We can't allow people choices. They might make the wrong one!"
This may be a stupid question. But I have direct TV, do I already have a digital reciever?
It doesn't matter what you have, because this isn't affecting any kind of pay TV. This only affects the old-fashioned terrestrial channels you can get for free by putting up a set of rabbit ears.
...a Microsoft press release announced the replacement for Windows Work Group Server, Windows Team-Up. Among its enhancements will be an all-new protocol which Microsoft claims will be more efficient and powerful than its predecessor.
Let's pare this down a bit. I say that when they stop making a console, it's dead. You ask, what if they stopped making a console that is thriving? To which I can only reply, nobody stops making a console that's thriving.
(2) Pen and paper voting systems that suffer from numerous problems, such as lack of accountability. No way to tell if the guys collecting and tabulating the ballots were paid to alter the results.
Unless, of course, you have representatives of all the candidates present at all times while the votes are handled. You know, *the way every proper pen-and-paper balloting system works.*
Here's a better analogy for you: they finally stopped making PS1s (true). The PS1 is therefore, at this point, dead (of old age). I have no problem with that statement.
So if Sony stops PlayStation 2 production tomorrow, the PS2 is dead, even if developers continue to make games for it until one year later, with people buying them?
Yes, of course if they stopped making any PS2s, it'd be dead. The reason your example sounds so ludicrous is because that they're *not* stopping production of the PS2, and in fact continue to sell it in large quantities, so trying to imagine such a unlikely fact creates an unreal picture.
Processors don't "wait" on blocked IO calls. Your program waits while the processor switches to another task.
That's his *point*, nimrod. Processors don't wait on blocked I/O calls, but processes do. Therefore, having umpteen processors doesn't do you much good if there are no processes ready to run because they're all waiting on something.
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If a you or I encountered a bug in our Linux downloaded from the Web for free, we would have no immediate remedy to our problem. We must wait for the next release, which could take weeks.
And this is different from other OSes the average person can buy...how, exactly?
That's not surface tension, that's the difference between displacing the water relatively slowly and trying to displace a large volume of water all at once.
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Now I can watch "The Simpsons" from thirty blocks away.
Yep, that was the first thing I thought of, too.
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By my estimate, since we signed and ratified a treaty agreeing to do so.
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"Yeah! It's like goldy and bronzy, only it's made of iron."
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At least it was 100% Funny, so you don't have smack yourself in the head for missing out on the Karma.
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But before you sell it, you're going to live in it. That is its purpose; buying a house to be an investment is a poor decision. Invest in actual investments. Buy a home to live in it.
On the contrary, any modification should ideally be done with regards to its effect on how happy it makes you to live in it. Be miserable to some vague notion of increasing the resale value? (Are you really going to be spot on as to what's trendy five or ten years from now?) Bah. Be happy and invest in some nice stock to make money.
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"We can't allow people choices. They might make the wrong one!"
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It doesn't matter what you have, because this isn't affecting any kind of pay TV. This only affects the old-fashioned terrestrial channels you can get for free by putting up a set of rabbit ears.
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Here in Washington DC we have a channel 4 and a channel 5.
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...a Microsoft press release announced the replacement for Windows Work Group Server, Windows Team-Up. Among its enhancements will be an all-new protocol which Microsoft claims will be more efficient and powerful than its predecessor.
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Either you mistakenly believe you respawn in AA (you don't), or you believe you respawn in real combat. I really hope the first is the case.
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No, if you don't have some kind of control over who gets in, the resulting mob scene isn't going to help maintain proper security or accountability.
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Let's pare this down a bit. I say that when they stop making a console, it's dead. You ask, what if they stopped making a console that is thriving? To which I can only reply, nobody stops making a console that's thriving.
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Unless, of course, you have representatives of all the candidates present at all times while the votes are handled. You know, *the way every proper pen-and-paper balloting system works.*
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Here's a better analogy for you: they finally stopped making PS1s (true). The PS1 is therefore, at this point, dead (of old age). I have no problem with that statement.
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Very true. However, I would submit that it is at least equally true that no game console is anything without the console, either.
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Yes, of course if they stopped making any PS2s, it'd be dead. The reason your example sounds so ludicrous is because that they're *not* stopping production of the PS2, and in fact continue to sell it in large quantities, so trying to imagine such a unlikely fact creates an unreal picture.
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Really? Can I get a new one from Sega? Can I get a new one from *anybody*?
Sorry, but when they stop making them, that's dead.
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Are belong to us?
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That's his *point*, nimrod. Processors don't wait on blocked I/O calls, but processes do. Therefore, having umpteen processors doesn't do you much good if there are no processes ready to run because they're all waiting on something.
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And this is different from other OSes the average person can buy...how, exactly?
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That's not surface tension, that's the difference between displacing the water relatively slowly and trying to displace a large volume of water all at once.
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No, they aren't. They really, really aren't. UFC is Professional Wrestling for people for people who want to feel "with it" and "edgy".
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OK, who are these "Gathering of Developers" dudes? Nope, never heard of them, either.
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To which the typical Yahoo reader would probably reply: "Gödel? He was that dude on Hollywood Squares, right? I'll take George Gödel for the win!"
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No, that would be *Disruptor* Technologies.
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