My computer is fast enough that any browser runs acceptably fast on it. I don't have complaints about speed. This isn't DOOM 3. I care more about how well it renders pages, how stable it is, whether it protects my privacy, is full of bugs and security holes, etc. Speed is only an issue if it's too slow, and nothing really is on current hardware. Being "fastest" doesn't make a bit of difference to me.
Well, see that's the thing. On the surface, it looks like you're a much riskier driver than the insurance company was initially led to believe. But in fact, you still have incurred the same amount of losses over the time you've been driving. Thus, what SHOULD happen is a re-evaluation of risk indicators.
The insurance companies ought to take this new data and say, "Hmm, it looks like having many minor traffic violations isn't all that big of a deal", and NOT "Ha ha, we caught this guy, now we can gouge his bank account for the rest of his life!"
Of course, the insurance companies won't do this unless they're forced to, either by the market or by legislative fiat. But that simply HAS to happen, or else insurance will cost everyone so much more money that no one will be able to afford it. Renormalization in the face of new data must happen.
Your Honor, I bought this movie a few years ago. I own the DVD. See? Well, no, it hasn't been released in theaters yet. I still maintain that I bought the DVD years ago, in a store. It's true, I tell ya. I swear on my mother's grave!...Oh, hi mom, I didn't see you sitting over there.
Did you hear about the new hotness? Intel Pentium, SCORCHING PERFORMANCE! ssssssssss!
Stick a Prescott on a long stick and apply that scortching brand on the rear end of any Longhorn cattle, and you've got yourself a stampede of sales, yeeeee-haw!
I heard that they get a 1-2 share in the ratings, which IIRC translates to 1-2 million households. If each of them coughed up $10, that would be your season. Of course, most households won't pony up anything, but it's doable, and considering all the crap we have to deal with in the form of sponsored advertisements and other middleman subsidies, I'm almost surprised no one has done this before. If it were done as a direct-to-DVD "season" release, it'd probably recoup costs even without an up-front financial bid from the fans.
This matter of "convention" is hogwash. If something gets mislabeled, it should be changed once it is more properly understood. If the only thing stopping Vesta from being considered a planet is that we currently think of it as an asteroid "by convention", then damn it, it should be reclassified a planet.
Check out the picture of Gates which accompanies the article:
http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,433427,00.jpg And the caption:
The world's richest man says not all his wishes have been fulfilled.
I'd strongly suspect that Unfulfilled Wish #1 was to have a good haircut or a flattering photograph taken of him. I've never seen one. Not even in Tiger Beat.
Seriously, spam would have increased without CAN-SPAM. There's no way to establish that CAN-SPAM actually contributed to spam increasing. The increase in spam since the inception of CAN-SPAM only shows that CAN-SPAM isn't succeeding in reducing spam, not that it's causing an increase in spam./.'s editors should at least TRY to write a decent headline, instead of the usual distored, sensationalist bullshit.
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Apple capitalized on their head start, but what they failed to do is monopolize. And if they had monopolized, we'd be complaining about them instead of Microsoft. In fact, given that IBM invented the PC architecture and no longer manufactures desktop PCs, it's quite likely that Apple would no longer be in the computer business and we'd be complaining about the legions of Mac clone OEMs that drove them out of business and clouded the vision that Jobs and Woz brought to the platform.
Or more like a half dozen, the way Slashdot has been since they announced the Mini. I have to wonder if they're not getting some ad revenue from Cupertino...
So, if I gut my Mac Mini and shove a nanoITX preproduction board in the case and cut a big hole on the back of it to accomodate for the different port layout, does that void my warranty? I want an official Apple spokesman's word on this, not some third-party Mac enthusiast rumor site. Come on, someone's got to know.
Fact: Much of what winders suffers from is incompetent users. Nothing is really stopping the developers from writing spam bots for windows because idiot users on Linux could run bad code just as easily as idiot users on windows.
While it's true that many users of Windows are incompetant, it's also true that Microsoft designed Windows in such a way as to allow incompetent users to do maximum damage by default. Recent versions of Windows now allow incompetent users to do slightly less than maximum damage by default, but still leave open far too many vulnerabilities and unnecessary services.
That's an interesting and valid point, but even so, as long as you can remove the DRM, you can still get what you want out of DRM files.
You're right that it doesn't send the right message to the merchant, and ultimately legitimizes DRM music. Boycotting is a better solution, except that it means you might never get the music that you want.
So that leaves "piracy". There's plenty of legal ways to get music for free -- recording off the radio for private use without sharing, for example.
1 - Because the CD probably has DRM on it too, these days.
2 - Because even if you get a non-DRMed CD, eventually, someday, downloaded music may become the normal way to buy music, and CDs will go the way of the vinyl LP.
Either way, you're going to need a way to get rid of the DRM so that you can listen to your own music as you see fit.
People on eBay aren't always in their right mind:) I forgot about the dual cube, though. Those might be worth more if you really want to run a dual proc system in a small form factor.
They're collectible, but again, collectors aren't prone to being in their right minds, either. For practical use, the Mini is a better machine in nearly every way. They're scarse for a reason -- they were overpriced and less powerful/expandible compared to the full-sized mini tower G4s of the day, and thus did not sell very well. I've also heard that they were prone to overheating.
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Indeed, this is the sort of thing Homer Simpson would come up with after about 5 minutes of flipping through Popular Science.
My computer is fast enough that any browser runs acceptably fast on it. I don't have complaints about speed. This isn't DOOM 3. I care more about how well it renders pages, how stable it is, whether it protects my privacy, is full of bugs and security holes, etc. Speed is only an issue if it's too slow, and nothing really is on current hardware. Being "fastest" doesn't make a bit of difference to me.
Well, see that's the thing. On the surface, it looks like you're a much riskier driver than the insurance company was initially led to believe. But in fact, you still have incurred the same amount of losses over the time you've been driving. Thus, what SHOULD happen is a re-evaluation of risk indicators.
The insurance companies ought to take this new data and say, "Hmm, it looks like having many minor traffic violations isn't all that big of a deal", and NOT "Ha ha, we caught this guy, now we can gouge his bank account for the rest of his life!"
Of course, the insurance companies won't do this unless they're forced to, either by the market or by legislative fiat. But that simply HAS to happen, or else insurance will cost everyone so much more money that no one will be able to afford it. Renormalization in the face of new data must happen.
Your Honor, I bought this movie a few years ago. I own the DVD. See? Well, no, it hasn't been released in theaters yet. I still maintain that I bought the DVD years ago, in a store. It's true, I tell ya. I swear on my mother's grave! ...Oh, hi mom, I didn't see you sitting over there.
The defense rests!
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GPS is great until you don't have it or unless you never did. How are small boaters going to navigate without beacons?
Hotness is all about Intel's branding....
Did you hear about the new hotness? Intel Pentium, SCORCHING PERFORMANCE! ssssssssss!
Stick a Prescott on a long stick and apply that scortching brand on the rear end of any Longhorn cattle, and you've got yourself a stampede of sales, yeeeee-haw!
I heard that they get a 1-2 share in the ratings, which IIRC translates to 1-2 million households. If each of them coughed up $10, that would be your season. Of course, most households won't pony up anything, but it's doable, and considering all the crap we have to deal with in the form of sponsored advertisements and other middleman subsidies, I'm almost surprised no one has done this before. If it were done as a direct-to-DVD "season" release, it'd probably recoup costs even without an up-front financial bid from the fans.
It's times like these when I wish there was a "+1, Pedantic" mod.
This matter of "convention" is hogwash. If something gets mislabeled, it should be changed once it is more properly understood. If the only thing stopping Vesta from being considered a planet is that we currently think of it as an asteroid "by convention", then damn it, it should be reclassified a planet.
Now I'll NEVER get lost again! It's too bad the inventor of the drop shadow never filed a patent...
Check out the picture of Gates which accompanies the article:
http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,433427,00.jpg
And the caption:
The world's richest man says not all his wishes have been fulfilled.
I'd strongly suspect that Unfulfilled Wish #1 was to have a good haircut or a flattering photograph taken of him. I've never seen one. Not even in Tiger Beat.
Uh, the University of Washington?
Seriously, spam would have increased without CAN-SPAM. There's no way to establish that CAN-SPAM actually contributed to spam increasing. The increase in spam since the inception of CAN-SPAM only shows that CAN-SPAM isn't succeeding in reducing spam, not that it's causing an increase in spam. /.'s editors should at least TRY to write a decent headline, instead of the usual distored, sensationalist bullshit.
Apple capitalized on their head start, but what they failed to do is monopolize. And if they had monopolized, we'd be complaining about them instead of Microsoft. In fact, given that IBM invented the PC architecture and no longer manufactures desktop PCs, it's quite likely that Apple would no longer be in the computer business and we'd be complaining about the legions of Mac clone OEMs that drove them out of business and clouded the vision that Jobs and Woz brought to the platform.
Or more like a half dozen, the way Slashdot has been since they announced the Mini. I have to wonder if they're not getting some ad revenue from Cupertino...
Close, but it won't be a cacophony -- it'll be more like a coprophagy.
So, if I gut my Mac Mini and shove a nanoITX preproduction board in the case and cut a big hole on the back of it to accomodate for the different port layout, does that void my warranty? I want an official Apple spokesman's word on this, not some third-party Mac enthusiast rumor site. Come on, someone's got to know.
Warcraft with a trackpad is a pain in the ass, but its certainly possible.
Which is exactly why I play video games, to experience the joy of using a computer and having it be a pain in the ass.
This means I can shut my furnace off this winter, instead of waiting until the end of 05.
While it's true that many users of Windows are incompetant, it's also true that Microsoft designed Windows in such a way as to allow incompetent users to do maximum damage by default. Recent versions of Windows now allow incompetent users to do slightly less than maximum damage by default, but still leave open far too many vulnerabilities and unnecessary services.
It's WinX (pronounced Winks) EXCEPT IN NEBRASKA.
That's an interesting and valid point, but even so, as long as you can remove the DRM, you can still get what you want out of DRM files.
You're right that it doesn't send the right message to the merchant, and ultimately legitimizes DRM music. Boycotting is a better solution, except that it means you might never get the music that you want.
So that leaves "piracy". There's plenty of legal ways to get music for free -- recording off the radio for private use without sharing, for example.
Why crack it? Why not just buy the CD and rip it?
1 - Because the CD probably has DRM on it too, these days.
2 - Because even if you get a non-DRMed CD, eventually, someday, downloaded music may become the normal way to buy music, and CDs will go the way of the vinyl LP.
Either way, you're going to need a way to get rid of the DRM so that you can listen to your own music as you see fit.
People on eBay aren't always in their right mind:) I forgot about the dual cube, though. Those might be worth more if you really want to run a dual proc system in a small form factor.
They're collectible, but again, collectors aren't prone to being in their right minds, either. For practical use, the Mini is a better machine in nearly every way. They're scarse for a reason -- they were overpriced and less powerful/expandible compared to the full-sized mini tower G4s of the day, and thus did not sell very well. I've also heard that they were prone to overheating.