Titanium, like Silicon, is one of the 10 most common elements in the earth's crust. Extracting and refining it is very expensive, and requires a lot of energy though. With the recent "titanium" craze in marketing a few years ago, I wonder if that maybe has changed through some advance in technology. But at any rate, it's not expensive because it's scarse. Making refined silicon for photovoltaics is similarly more expensive than the mere raw material cost.
Sorry, your dad must not be doing something right. He might be fine with mainframes or whatever, but if he can't manage setting up antivirus software and anti-malware software, a simple firewall and disabling unnecessary services on his PC and avoiding the evil blue E on his desktop, then his skills are, if not up to date, something other than modern desktop system administration. He might be right at home on a Mac though, especially if he's UNIX savvy.
There's lots of countries with better public network infrastructure than the USA. I'm not one to run from problems unless I have to, and there's no reason why we can't have better internet here. We just need to muster the will to do it.
DSL is a different technology which provides the same types services. Its speed is limited by the limits of technology. Most cable ISPs cap their network speeds to considerably lower than what the carrier media is capable of. Cable companies currently have geographical monopolies, and you're stuck with them if they're your only option, you deal with what they give you. Competition will change this, almost certainly.
"The wobbly window effect is mildly addictive. Kristian hasn't gotten much work done since he wrote it. He (and now I) spends all day moving windows around and watching them settle."
Yeah, this is great becasue as millions of Microsoft customers have proven, less productivity from the same hardware is good.
It's not the backup gene, it's the write verifcation gene. Organisms keep thinking they can reproduce faster without verifying, but they have less assurance of data integrity. Hum.
"Slashdot Death Ray is made of 1 website and no mirrors of the target site mounted on a platform of linux, perl, and horribly mangled html. Each user is a square (ed. note: update to modern parlance, ie "geek"). All these mirrors focus the slashdot to a single web server. A wooden fork is stuck into the web server after it melts to signify that it is "done". The mirror platform is often asked for and often denied by CmdrTaco, who mounted his stock answer on an FAQ somewhere. The whole system is mounted on a stack of open protocols dating back to the early days of DARPA. The goal of the Web site was to show the results of the targeted items when the slashdot death ray was used."
Adobe seems to have partnered with Yahoo! to get Adobe Reader users to install the Yahoo! toolbar. When you go to adobe.com to download Adobe Reader, they try to bundle a lot of other junk with it as well (Yahoo! toolbar, Adobe Download Manager, etc.) It's getting really annoying.
I hate the way Acrobat loads in my browser window when I click a link to a PDF file, instead of simply opening Acrobat outside of my browser window. I end up with half the screen taken up by toolbars. It's ridiculous.
DVDJon is like one of those martial arts masters who, no matter how you come at him, just makes a slight, barely perceptible move, and defeats his opponents.
DRM company: "Take that!"
DVDJon: "OK, I'll just try holding down the shift key, and..."
Can we really believe Gates on this? He's got a vested interest... maybe we should seek confirmation from Netcraft... they seem to be the authority on these matters.
I mean, are you really going to upgrade a piece-of-crap P166 to Windows XP, where it will run like shit? Or are you going to run DOS or Win95 or maybe Linux if you're 1337 enough, and still have it run acceptably fast?
It's better than not being able to get the file at all because of a slashdot effect killing their server, or having to share a limited amount of bandwidth with hundreds of other downloaders.
Australia is mostly not prime real estate, whereas a much greater percentage of the 48 states of the US have areas where people would actually like to live.
Slashdot Mirror
Are there any studies which show the impact to the environment from throwing away thousands of nearly brand-new, 99.99% good LCD screen?
I think dead pixels are annoying, but I'd have to think twice about what the demand of perfection does to the environment.
So, basically, their sales are up? Well, then their fraudulent advertising campaign seems to have been very beneficial to their bottom line.
Titanium, like Silicon, is one of the 10 most common elements in the earth's crust. Extracting and refining it is very expensive, and requires a lot of energy though. With the recent "titanium" craze in marketing a few years ago, I wonder if that maybe has changed through some advance in technology. But at any rate, it's not expensive because it's scarse. Making refined silicon for photovoltaics is similarly more expensive than the mere raw material cost.
Sorry, your dad must not be doing something right. He might be fine with mainframes or whatever, but if he can't manage setting up antivirus software and anti-malware software, a simple firewall and disabling unnecessary services on his PC and avoiding the evil blue E on his desktop, then his skills are, if not up to date, something other than modern desktop system administration. He might be right at home on a Mac though, especially if he's UNIX savvy.
Tried that, it still displays in firefox window. Not sure why it doesn't work like you say.
There's lots of countries with better public network infrastructure than the USA. I'm not one to run from problems unless I have to, and there's no reason why we can't have better internet here. We just need to muster the will to do it.
Are they going to start selling Beowulf clusters iPods?
DSL is a different technology which provides the same types services. Its speed is limited by the limits of technology. Most cable ISPs cap their network speeds to considerably lower than what the carrier media is capable of. Cable companies currently have geographical monopolies, and you're stuck with them if they're your only option, you deal with what they give you. Competition will change this, almost certainly.
You are in violation of com.com's patent on recursive DNS.
I hope it happens. It'd be nice to finally be able to get better than 2mbit down and 256kbit up.
Oh well. Is the guy Eintstein? I think the world can safely move on without him.
"The wobbly window effect is mildly addictive. Kristian hasn't gotten much work done since he wrote it. He (and now I) spends all day moving windows around and watching them settle."
Yeah, this is great becasue as millions of Microsoft customers have proven, less productivity from the same hardware is good.
It's not the backup gene, it's the write verifcation gene. Organisms keep thinking they can reproduce faster without verifying, but they have less assurance of data integrity. Hum.
"Slashdot Death Ray is made of 1 website and no mirrors of the target site mounted on a platform of linux, perl, and horribly mangled html. Each user is a square (ed. note: update to modern parlance, ie "geek"). All these mirrors focus the slashdot to a single web server. A wooden fork is stuck into the web server after it melts to signify that it is "done". The mirror platform is often asked for and often denied by CmdrTaco, who mounted his stock answer on an FAQ somewhere. The whole system is mounted on a stack of open protocols dating back to the early days of DARPA. The goal of the Web site was to show the results of the targeted items when the slashdot death ray was used."
Adobe seems to have partnered with Yahoo! to get Adobe Reader users to install the Yahoo! toolbar. When you go to adobe.com to download Adobe Reader, they try to bundle a lot of other junk with it as well (Yahoo! toolbar, Adobe Download Manager, etc.) It's getting really annoying.
I hate the way Acrobat loads in my browser window when I click a link to a PDF file, instead of simply opening Acrobat outside of my browser window. I end up with half the screen taken up by toolbars. It's ridiculous.
Ideally, never.
I *might* accept DRM if there was no other alternative and the DRM'd material was free-as-in-beer.
I'd also accept it if it was easily circumvented.
DVDJon is like one of those martial arts masters who, no matter how you come at him, just makes a slight, barely perceptible move, and defeats his opponents.
DRM company: "Take that!"
DVDJon: "OK, I'll just try holding down the shift key, and..."
DRM company: "Damn, you're good!"
I like to call it Juarez just because it adds another layer of obfuscation for the law enforcement types to unravel.
Can we really believe Gates on this? He's got a vested interest... maybe we should seek confirmation from Netcraft... they seem to be the authority on these matters.
I mean, are you really going to upgrade a piece-of-crap P166 to Windows XP, where it will run like shit? Or are you going to run DOS or Win95 or maybe Linux if you're 1337 enough, and still have it run acceptably fast?
This guy never stops, does he? Long may you run, DVDjon. I salute you.
In Capitalist America, birthday presnt gives away YOU!
Get in touch with a good lawyer, and start looking for heaps of cash behind your sofa.
It's better than not being able to get the file at all because of a slashdot effect killing their server, or having to share a limited amount of bandwidth with hundreds of other downloaders.
Australia is mostly not prime real estate, whereas a much greater percentage of the 48 states of the US have areas where people would actually like to live.