Not entirely true. The foods marketed as being healthy are usually overpriced, but that doesn't mean it is necessarily costly to eat well. You just have to choose what you eat, maybe do a little more prep work instead of buying the pre-cooked junk.
So.... six terabytes... isn't that horribly small by today's standards ? I mean, our small backup server here is 2 teras, it's just a cheap PC with a bunch of SATA drives in it.
Does that mean my gaming rig and media server, when combined, constitute an "HPC Cluster" worthy of the top 100 ?
I'd rather see them ban German users from Gmail entirely. If the Germans really want Google Mail, they're welcome to kill the G-mail dude while shooting violent porn in an abandoned missile factory.
No more annoying G-mail guy = Gmail for everyone....yeah, like I could trademark B-mail... uhhhm (gallops to the patent office)
The big "value" in domain names comes from their scarcity... at least scarcity of good, concise names. If you let every half-bred marketroid buy their own TLD, the value of actual domain names will quickly plummet to zero. Who cares whether sex.com is taken (and expensive), if you can buy sex.yourmom for $50, and the next genius can buy sex.oprah for $25... Everyone's name is now worth zero.
I really hope they don't actually do this. I'll have to make it horribly simple on myself and blacklist all mail from vanity TLDs, because I frankly cannot see how this will help anyone worth helping. If your idea is so tired that the.com,.net,.org and.cx are already taken, I really don't care what you have to sell because I've seen it all before.
Yes, even more so with the mindless popularity of Ruby among the programming anti-elite. The thousands of tutorial screencasts teaching non-programmers "how to build a blog in 5 lines" have led to an explosion of horrible sites that every self-respecting coder and/or security analyst dismissed as a big gaping hole.
As it turns out, we were right. How these obvious flaws weren't spotted sooner, that's the true mystery.
Actually, just mod twitter and his sock puppets down to minimize his effect and influence. There's nothing fundamentally wrong about hating shills, that's why they're called shills.
I must say that homebuilt x86 PC's are much more tinker-friendly than Apple PC's That's only true if you used tinker-friendly components, primarily the motherboard and ram.
Cheap board + cheap ram = no tinkering Cheap board + awesome ram = might not even boot! Awesome board + cheap ram = limited tinkering Awesome board + awesome ram = the sky's the limit
Case in point: I have two PC models, both have the same base performance. One costs $775, the other costs $1125 - for the math-challenged, that's a $350 difference. Same CPU, same amount of ram, same-sized hard disk. The cheap one does not overclock, the fancy one can tweak just about everything and has plentiful avenues for expandability with extra PCIE slots, SATA ports and back-panel connectors of all kinds.
Remember, by default the expensive unit isn't any faster than the cheap one, and the only way you can get value out of that extra $350 is if you're overclocking and/or water cooling, adding a second video card, or a bunch of hard drives.
A homebuilt PC can be made to suck every bit as much as a brand name PC, you just have to be as cheap as the big guys.
Some printer companys managed to lock down their printers/ink carts, and they need maintenance every few months too in the form of feeding it new ink and more paper. And people buy these printers because... ?
Any office drone can swap a printer cart and add paper to a tray. We've been doing it for decades already. If the manufacturer required me to call their overpriced support monkeys over each time I get a PC LOAD LETTER, the first monkey will meet an untimely death and I'll score some free printer-opening equipment.
Fax to the print company: "Support rep never showed up, please send another", lather, rinse, repeat until the CEO himself comes down to "fix" my "printer".
As the happy owner of a modded Wii, I'll chime in and state that blocking homebrew is a very pointless and stupid move. Nintendo needs good developers, because the Wii has caused every half-bred rip-off artist to jump on the bandwagon and the volume of crap games is staggering. It's like the NES all over again!
By promoting homebrew, or at least letting them be, they just might allow someone to develop a really cool feature or indie game, that Nintendo could pick up and sell online a-la Xbox Live. Simple popcap-style games fit the Wii demographic to a tee.
Up here in Ottawa, the Tory douchebags passed a bill to install surveillance cams in taxis, "to protect patrons and drivers" they say.
Knowing the average IQ of a taxi business owner/manager, I can guarantee you these will be misused in every way imaginable. For entertainment (check out the jugs on that one), for profit (thank you mr crooked cop), or even to blackmail people (who's that woman you were with - not your wife!).
Frankly, I think we should revert to times past, when people weren't so paranoid and we could all go on with our lives without the government staring up everyone's ass.
WGA, like any other protection scheme, is defeated with a small patch. I've seen one that loads some resident code at boot time, before handing control over to the Vista loader, and somehow convinces the activation check to always pass. Game over!
The license that is sold for $250 in-store, costs $80 (or less) to the OEM - even mom & pop shops. That's one hell of an insult to the loyal customers who actually buy the new OS to update their existing PCs, and to the businesses that buy hundreds or thousands of licenses. They can negotiate a "preferred partner" deal, but it's still nowhere near the OEM pricing.
I strongly suspect the CEO is hoping to do another PixStream... sell out to a big player and walk away with a small fortune as the former company gets ripped to shreds by the new owners. He cares not about the words coming out of his mouth, he's a sales guy. He sells businesses, takes his golden handshake and moves on to the next target.
The funny thing is a lot of Sandvine employees were former PixStream employees, so either the perks are fantastic, or these people are easily duped.
Hmmm, what job entails genital examination of your superiors? And the answer:
I've been a professional executive secretary for 16 years now. *SLURP* Now, how bout that raise ?
At the risk of sounding racist, I think his punishment should be deportation, if it is indeed true that his family just entered the country (couldn't find the source in the article). The parents can stay, but to hell with the kid.
The fact that he went to such great lengths to cheat his way through high school, and more importantly to pursue further education, makes me hate this person almost instantly. He's clearly not interested in working and learning, he just wants a degree so he can defraud his future employers. This does not evolve into an honest, respectable adult, and the damage caused by a lifetime of incompetence has far-reaching consequences affecting thousands of lives. He is yet another bad apple in this logjam we call modern society.
Why deportation ? Because he's too young for jail, and I don't think jail fixes anyone anyway. He now has a criminal record, which means he won't be able to get any decent jobs anyway. The funny thing about a criminal record, once you have one, there is less incentive to be good since a lifetime of flawless behavior won't erase the stain in your past, so you might as well break the rules and get rich doing it. He came here, presumably to pursue a more successful life, tried to shaft us, and got caught. Fail. No better life for you. Do not pass go.
Actually, if the chipsets were any decent, people would build file servers around them. The biggest (*rimshot*) thing going for Mini-ITX is the low power consumption. If I could replace my two home servers with smaller machines that draw a third of the power, yet can adequately serve my media and backup needs, I would spend the money.
The problem is Mini-ITX does everything poorly. Terrible performance, overpriced accessories, usually lots of modding work to get things fitted, and you have to pay a premium for the privilege of being mediocre.
The reason they use crappy chipsets is because they're cheaper than the good stuff, and Mini-ITX is primarily about money, secondly about size.
I mostly stopped caring about Mini-ITX when I realized I could gut a low-end laptop for less money and better performance than Via's offerings. Their prices just aren't in line with my perception of value. There are also several alternatives on the market, most of them based on Intel mobile chipsets, like the Arcom Apollo.
If I wanted something even smaller, there's the Gumstix/Netstix. This Mini-ITX 2.0 seems like a whole lotta nothing, too late to market, too costly to care.
teachers wouldn't mind if I took a 10 minute bathroom break after I finished the in-class tests My god, you must have been full of shit!
I'm with ya though, the "gifted" programs are really just "more useless crap" programs with a higher price tag. Sure, you're shoving a bunch of "gifted" kids in a classroom, but is the staff every bit as exceptional ? Hardly.
I was lucky to have a handful of brilliant profs over the years, amid swarms of imbeciles. I'll never forget that one wacko who taught me quadratic math in 7th grade;) Of course, he was just as thrilled about my raytracing project. A true meeting of the geeks, it was.
But that shit's one in a million. It's not like even a gifted school administrator can round up a dozen geniuses that just happen to not hate humanity.
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Not entirely true. The foods marketed as being healthy are usually overpriced, but that doesn't mean it is necessarily costly to eat well. You just have to choose what you eat, maybe do a little more prep work instead of buying the pre-cooked junk.
So.... six terabytes... isn't that horribly small by today's standards ? I mean, our small backup server here is 2 teras, it's just a cheap PC with a bunch of SATA drives in it.
Does that mean my gaming rig and media server, when combined, constitute an "HPC Cluster" worthy of the top 100 ?
Ghey.
Oooh baybee.. (ooh baby)
Yer makin' muh cray-zee.. (you're making me crazy)
Every time I look around, it's in my face.
I'd rather see them ban German users from Gmail entirely. If the Germans really want Google Mail, they're welcome to kill the G-mail dude while shooting violent porn in an abandoned missile factory.
No more annoying G-mail guy = Gmail for everyone. ...yeah, like I could trademark B-mail... uhhhm (gallops to the patent office)
The big "value" in domain names comes from their scarcity... at least scarcity of good, concise names. If you let every half-bred marketroid buy their own TLD, the value of actual domain names will quickly plummet to zero. Who cares whether sex.com is taken (and expensive), if you can buy sex.yourmom for $50, and the next genius can buy sex.oprah for $25... Everyone's name is now worth zero.
I really hope they don't actually do this. I'll have to make it horribly simple on myself and blacklist all mail from vanity TLDs, because I frankly cannot see how this will help anyone worth helping. If your idea is so tired that the .com, .net, .org and .cx are already taken, I really don't care what you have to sell because I've seen it all before.
Yes, even more so with the mindless popularity of Ruby among the programming anti-elite. The thousands of tutorial screencasts teaching non-programmers "how to build a blog in 5 lines" have led to an explosion of horrible sites that every self-respecting coder and/or security analyst dismissed as a big gaping hole.
As it turns out, we were right. How these obvious flaws weren't spotted sooner, that's the true mystery.
(that's right, mod me funny, you know you wanna)
Actually, just mod twitter and his sock puppets down to minimize his effect and influence. There's nothing fundamentally wrong about hating shills, that's why they're called shills.
Cheap board + cheap ram = no tinkering
Cheap board + awesome ram = might not even boot!
Awesome board + cheap ram = limited tinkering
Awesome board + awesome ram = the sky's the limit
Case in point: I have two PC models, both have the same base performance. One costs $775, the other costs $1125 - for the math-challenged, that's a $350 difference. Same CPU, same amount of ram, same-sized hard disk. The cheap one does not overclock, the fancy one can tweak just about everything and has plentiful avenues for expandability with extra PCIE slots, SATA ports and back-panel connectors of all kinds.
Remember, by default the expensive unit isn't any faster than the cheap one, and the only way you can get value out of that extra $350 is if you're overclocking and/or water cooling, adding a second video card, or a bunch of hard drives.
A homebuilt PC can be made to suck every bit as much as a brand name PC, you just have to be as cheap as the big guys.
Any office drone can swap a printer cart and add paper to a tray. We've been doing it for decades already. If the manufacturer required me to call their overpriced support monkeys over each time I get a PC LOAD LETTER, the first monkey will meet an untimely death and I'll score some free printer-opening equipment.
Fax to the print company: "Support rep never showed up, please send another", lather, rinse, repeat until the CEO himself comes down to "fix" my "printer".
As the happy owner of a modded Wii, I'll chime in and state that blocking homebrew is a very pointless and stupid move. Nintendo needs good developers, because the Wii has caused every half-bred rip-off artist to jump on the bandwagon and the volume of crap games is staggering. It's like the NES all over again!
By promoting homebrew, or at least letting them be, they just might allow someone to develop a really cool feature or indie game, that Nintendo could pick up and sell online a-la Xbox Live. Simple popcap-style games fit the Wii demographic to a tee.
Yes, you're absolutely right.
That's why my custom-compiled Gentoo kernel causes Debian machines all over the world to panic.
Just because something is open, doesn't mean Joe Random will hack it. If he does, and he kills it, tough tits.
Joe Random can also press DEL while booting his computer, mess with the voltages and multipliers, and fry his CPU/board. Tough tits!
There's three kinds of users:
1. those that are good modders, do their research and understand the risks
2. those that don't mod, they're content with the defaults
3 the know-it-alls who possess that perfect blend of ignorance and excitability, that mess with things they don't understand
Promote #1, support #2 and fuck #3 in the ass with a dremel! That's how you develop a platform!
Up here in Ottawa, the Tory douchebags passed a bill to install surveillance cams in taxis, "to protect patrons and drivers" they say.
Knowing the average IQ of a taxi business owner/manager, I can guarantee you these will be misused in every way imaginable. For entertainment (check out the jugs on that one), for profit (thank you mr crooked cop), or even to blackmail people (who's that woman you were with - not your wife!).
Frankly, I think we should revert to times past, when people weren't so paranoid and we could all go on with our lives without the government staring up everyone's ass.
Why do people assume WGA is the end of piracy ?
WGA, like any other protection scheme, is defeated with a small patch. I've seen one that loads some resident code at boot time, before handing control over to the Vista loader, and somehow convinces the activation check to always pass. Game over!
Microsoft does charge less, to OEMs that is.
The license that is sold for $250 in-store, costs $80 (or less) to the OEM - even mom & pop shops. That's one hell of an insult to the loyal customers who actually buy the new OS to update their existing PCs, and to the businesses that buy hundreds or thousands of licenses. They can negotiate a "preferred partner" deal, but it's still nowhere near the OEM pricing.
All Americans suck because they believe in random sigs.
I strongly suspect the CEO is hoping to do another PixStream... sell out to a big player and walk away with a small fortune as the former company gets ripped to shreds by the new owners. He cares not about the words coming out of his mouth, he's a sales guy. He sells businesses, takes his golden handshake and moves on to the next target.
The funny thing is a lot of Sandvine employees were former PixStream employees, so either the perks are fantastic, or these people are easily duped.
You ask:
Hmmm, what job entails genital examination of your superiors? And the answer: I've been a professional executive secretary for 16 years now. *SLURP* Now, how bout that raise ?Money for Via, not money in your pocket.
Mini-ITX is expensive!
At the risk of sounding racist, I think his punishment should be deportation, if it is indeed true that his family just entered the country (couldn't find the source in the article). The parents can stay, but to hell with the kid.
The fact that he went to such great lengths to cheat his way through high school, and more importantly to pursue further education, makes me hate this person almost instantly. He's clearly not interested in working and learning, he just wants a degree so he can defraud his future employers. This does not evolve into an honest, respectable adult, and the damage caused by a lifetime of incompetence has far-reaching consequences affecting thousands of lives. He is yet another bad apple in this logjam we call modern society.
Why deportation ? Because he's too young for jail, and I don't think jail fixes anyone anyway. He now has a criminal record, which means he won't be able to get any decent jobs anyway. The funny thing about a criminal record, once you have one, there is less incentive to be good since a lifetime of flawless behavior won't erase the stain in your past, so you might as well break the rules and get rich doing it. He came here, presumably to pursue a more successful life, tried to shaft us, and got caught. Fail. No better life for you. Do not pass go.
Actually, if the chipsets were any decent, people would build file servers around them. The biggest (*rimshot*) thing going for Mini-ITX is the low power consumption. If I could replace my two home servers with smaller machines that draw a third of the power, yet can adequately serve my media and backup needs, I would spend the money.
The problem is Mini-ITX does everything poorly. Terrible performance, overpriced accessories, usually lots of modding work to get things fitted, and you have to pay a premium for the privilege of being mediocre.
The reason they use crappy chipsets is because they're cheaper than the good stuff, and Mini-ITX is primarily about money, secondly about size.
I mostly stopped caring about Mini-ITX when I realized I could gut a low-end laptop for less money and better performance than Via's offerings. Their prices just aren't in line with my perception of value. There are also several alternatives on the market, most of them based on Intel mobile chipsets, like the Arcom Apollo.
If I wanted something even smaller, there's the Gumstix/Netstix. This Mini-ITX 2.0 seems like a whole lotta nothing, too late to market, too costly to care.
Head. 'sploded!
I'm with ya though, the "gifted" programs are really just "more useless crap" programs with a higher price tag. Sure, you're shoving a bunch of "gifted" kids in a classroom, but is the staff every bit as exceptional ? Hardly.
I was lucky to have a handful of brilliant profs over the years, amid swarms of imbeciles. I'll never forget that one wacko who taught me quadratic math in 7th grade
But that shit's one in a million. It's not like even a gifted school administrator can round up a dozen geniuses that just happen to not hate humanity.
I'm surprised they didn't claim "first Intel processor-based computer".