I think the difference here is that squirrels do it on an instinctive level... and the vast majority of the nuts they store never get used and the few that are usually get re-discovered by accident. Squirrels don't show any evidence of storing nuts because they know it will be cold... just that's what instinct drives them to do. I'd bet that if you took a squirrel at birth and kept it somewhere that's always a stable, warm temperature then it would still store nuts even though it had no idea why it was doing it.
My dog is the type of moron who will walk into walls because he's distracted, but he's executed surprisingly complex plots when it comes to stealing rawhide from the other dog. He even has a Plan B called "whine until Daddy gets annoyed and fills the Kong with cheese whiz which is even better!"
I've had some good experiences with their mid and high end servers, laserjets, thin clients and even their high-end business laptops. Their desktop/workstation PCs generally suck as much as their consumer grade equipment.
In one of my security classes in college, each student was assigned a different type of attack and asked to demonstrate both the attack and countermeasures. I was assigned DoS/DDoS. Although I ran through the typical DoS/DDoS attacks, I also took one of my older PCs (a 186MHz Cyrix processor if that's any indication) to the backstage of the campus theater and beat the hell out of it - threw it off ladders, raised it on a pulley and smacked it around with a 2x4, took a grinder to it, etc. There's plenty of effective DoS/DDoS attacks if one is creative enough (and physical access always helps). Professor loved the demo. I later donated some of the parts to the PC hardware class.
The other ones that are harmed are the only companies completely unrelated to the targeted sites who happen to share a data center to host their webpage. DDoS Virgin/RIAA/MPAA/etc's server and it's sure as hell going to affect other machines in the same facility as their shared bandwidth gets eaten up. Sure, there's ways around it but it's still going to hurt other websites hosted there - including many that do online commerce and thus will be hurt far more than the targeted company.
I'd have to agree with TPB on this - DDoS has a tendency to affect a lot more than just the target. It's using a grenade to take out a single guy on a bus.
When they said they were removing the "human factor" I assumed that meant they were removing the TSA agents looking at the images and replacing it with some kind of image analysis software... not slapping the equivalent of a black bar over the naughty bits.
Also, I'm surprised they only estimate it to cost $7 mil... seems like it's not enough for sufficient profits even with the inevitable budget overruns.
Wanna bet? One of the biggest reasons college costs so much is because dropouts also tend to default on their loans so the ones who go on to graduate and actually pay the loans also end up paying the cost of all of the dropouts too.
You'd be surprised how many people quickly turn from Dem to Rep once they're out of college and into the real world and have to pay taxes for all of the idealistic things they supported while in college.
The war on terror will never be over as long as the TSA is around. Radiation bombardment? Groping children? Sounds like Al-qaida has outsourced overseas.
The time to find a torrent is, for many people, roughly the same or less as the trip to the theater and it can easily download in the background or overnight, so I thought of those but discounted them as barely relevant.
You have three alternatives for seeing the Avengers in the near future: $15 - watch it in crowded theaters at high def, pay gobs more for concessions $0 - watch it at home at low def in your underwear with your own snacks $0 - don't watch it (or wait until it comes out on DVD and watch it as often as you want for the price of a single theater viewing)
The second and third option cost the same and there are a lot of people that still get as much or more enjoyment from the low def movie in their own home. I chose the third option, but if I really wanted to see the movie I'd sure as hell go with option 2. If it turned out to be too crappy quality, I'm only out a few minutes of my time and I can still go see it in the theater.
And how many of the 300 million that didn't download it also didn't go to see it because they couldn't justify $15 for a movie that they only might like?
Or how much piracy helped Hollywood gain? Of those 100,000 or so Americans that downloaded it, I'd be willing to bet a fair number of them did go see it in theaters simply because they liked the crappy version they downloaded and wanted the full cinematic experience.
You forgot to apply the Hollywood Multiplier. Each of those pirates would actually watch the movie at least 800 times apiece. In 3D. And buy tons of merchandise. If only the option to download it outside of the system wasn't available. So it's actually a 400% loss, not a *potential* 0.5% loss.
My Core Duo laptop runs Windows 7 very smoothly with 2.5GB. My girlfriend has an identical laptop, except for a a slower HDD and 1.5GB RAM and it also runs better than XP or Ubuntu for her. Modern OSes take advantage of all the memory you have... if you have 16GB RAM, it will use as much otherwise-unused memory as possible for optimization. If you only have 2GB, it will allocate as much as needed to apps and still use the rest for optimization.
I just made the switch from DDR2 to DDR3 in March and only did it because it's cheaper and easier to get a DDR3 motherboard and 16GB DDR3. Current mobo supports up to 32GB RAM, so I'll probably be good until DDR5 comes out. I still have a number of PCs and Servers on DDR and DDR2 and foresee it staying that way for a while.
My parents live 65 miles from the nearest college even remotely offering a degree in what I wanted. Room and board came out to be cheaper than the time, fuel and maintenance.
Average rent for most of NY state is considerably higher than even a 20 year mortgage on a house 25% higher than average. It's that pesky 20% down that's hard to get to.
I did the beater car thing. Turns out that's more expensive than a newer car (4 years old in this case) once you figure in repairs.
I have a job with hours that, while often flexible, aren't flexible enough due to the pesky little customer interaction thing.
Closer to the workplace means at least another $200/mo for a smaller apartment with fewer amenities. Another city means living in a place I don't want to and moving away from a job that I enjoy and family that I get along with (not to mention moving costs which are unfeasible if you're choosing the $99 Xbox... which is the original argument)
For those who live in a sufficiently large city, the local campus of the state college exists, as do jobs that require only a high school diploma.
I went to a state school, still wound up with $23,000 in loans. They're more affordable, but still difficult to do unless you're also working full time (30 hours of classes a week on top of 40 hours of working is no fun... especially when you consider you're expected to spend double the time on work outside of the classroom that you spend in it).
buy a house before they're 40
One can rent until one has enough money saved up to buy a house with cash.
If you make enough money, yes. Rent isn't all that cheap, even for a small one bedroom or studio.
a car that they need to get to a job
Not necessary. Bicycles, buses, and carpools exist. In fact, I rode a bike to work today.
That may be true if you live in/near the city. Since I started working at age 14, I've only lived within biking distance of work for a total of 9 months. I've only been on a bus route for 2 years (between two different apartments) and both routes would require that I leave 90 minutes earlier and change busses at least 3 times. Plus I would lose an extra half hour at the beginning of the day for arriving too early and have to wait an hour after I clock out to catch the next bus. My time is more valuable than that. Before I moved to this city, there was no public transportation and very, very few other people even commuting in the same direction as I was.
It's no different than student loans, mortgages (any loans really), leasing a car, etc... you pay more in the long run and in return, you get the product sooner than if you had to pay for it up front. This business model is what enables people to go to college right out of high school, to buy a house before they're 40 and to get a car that they need to get to a job to get money for the car.
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I think the difference here is that squirrels do it on an instinctive level... and the vast majority of the nuts they store never get used and the few that are usually get re-discovered by accident. Squirrels don't show any evidence of storing nuts because they know it will be cold... just that's what instinct drives them to do. I'd bet that if you took a squirrel at birth and kept it somewhere that's always a stable, warm temperature then it would still store nuts even though it had no idea why it was doing it.
My dog is the type of moron who will walk into walls because he's distracted, but he's executed surprisingly complex plots when it comes to stealing rawhide from the other dog. He even has a Plan B called "whine until Daddy gets annoyed and fills the Kong with cheese whiz which is even better!"
Well yeah, if humans threw stones at people we'd put them in a cage too called "jail"
I've had some good experiences with their mid and high end servers, laserjets, thin clients and even their high-end business laptops. Their desktop/workstation PCs generally suck as much as their consumer grade equipment.
From a previous article I read, Boeing is one of the companies that had a hand in designing it.
You're right... I'd much rather have one of those new planes that can fly right through a mountain.
In one of my security classes in college, each student was assigned a different type of attack and asked to demonstrate both the attack and countermeasures. I was assigned DoS/DDoS. Although I ran through the typical DoS/DDoS attacks, I also took one of my older PCs (a 186MHz Cyrix processor if that's any indication) to the backstage of the campus theater and beat the hell out of it - threw it off ladders, raised it on a pulley and smacked it around with a 2x4, took a grinder to it, etc. There's plenty of effective DoS/DDoS attacks if one is creative enough (and physical access always helps). Professor loved the demo. I later donated some of the parts to the PC hardware class.
The other ones that are harmed are the only companies completely unrelated to the targeted sites who happen to share a data center to host their webpage. DDoS Virgin/RIAA/MPAA/etc's server and it's sure as hell going to affect other machines in the same facility as their shared bandwidth gets eaten up. Sure, there's ways around it but it's still going to hurt other websites hosted there - including many that do online commerce and thus will be hurt far more than the targeted company.
I'd have to agree with TPB on this - DDoS has a tendency to affect a lot more than just the target. It's using a grenade to take out a single guy on a bus.
Whooo, party in 3d! Always knew Microsoft had a stick up their ass, but now they're trying to limit us to two-dimensional parties.
Actually, they're hiring Cameron to replace the images with the blue guys from Avatar.
When they said they were removing the "human factor" I assumed that meant they were removing the TSA agents looking at the images and replacing it with some kind of image analysis software... not slapping the equivalent of a black bar over the naughty bits.
Also, I'm surprised they only estimate it to cost $7 mil... seems like it's not enough for sufficient profits even with the inevitable budget overruns.
Wanna bet? One of the biggest reasons college costs so much is because dropouts also tend to default on their loans so the ones who go on to graduate and actually pay the loans also end up paying the cost of all of the dropouts too.
You'd be surprised how many people quickly turn from Dem to Rep once they're out of college and into the real world and have to pay taxes for all of the idealistic things they supported while in college.
The war on terror will never be over as long as the TSA is around. Radiation bombardment? Groping children? Sounds like Al-qaida has outsourced overseas.
The time to find a torrent is, for many people, roughly the same or less as the trip to the theater and it can easily download in the background or overnight, so I thought of those but discounted them as barely relevant.
You have three alternatives for seeing the Avengers in the near future:
$15 - watch it in crowded theaters at high def, pay gobs more for concessions
$0 - watch it at home at low def in your underwear with your own snacks
$0 - don't watch it (or wait until it comes out on DVD and watch it as often as you want for the price of a single theater viewing)
The second and third option cost the same and there are a lot of people that still get as much or more enjoyment from the low def movie in their own home. I chose the third option, but if I really wanted to see the movie I'd sure as hell go with option 2. If it turned out to be too crappy quality, I'm only out a few minutes of my time and I can still go see it in the theater.
And how many of the 300 million that didn't download it also didn't go to see it because they couldn't justify $15 for a movie that they only might like?
Or how much piracy helped Hollywood gain? Of those 100,000 or so Americans that downloaded it, I'd be willing to bet a fair number of them did go see it in theaters simply because they liked the crappy version they downloaded and wanted the full cinematic experience.
You forgot to apply the Hollywood Multiplier. Each of those pirates would actually watch the movie at least 800 times apiece. In 3D. And buy tons of merchandise. If only the option to download it outside of the system wasn't available. So it's actually a 400% loss, not a *potential* 0.5% loss.
My Core Duo laptop runs Windows 7 very smoothly with 2.5GB. My girlfriend has an identical laptop, except for a a slower HDD and 1.5GB RAM and it also runs better than XP or Ubuntu for her. Modern OSes take advantage of all the memory you have... if you have 16GB RAM, it will use as much otherwise-unused memory as possible for optimization. If you only have 2GB, it will allocate as much as needed to apps and still use the rest for optimization.
I just made the switch from DDR2 to DDR3 in March and only did it because it's cheaper and easier to get a DDR3 motherboard and 16GB DDR3. Current mobo supports up to 32GB RAM, so I'll probably be good until DDR5 comes out. I still have a number of PCs and Servers on DDR and DDR2 and foresee it staying that way for a while.
My parents live 65 miles from the nearest college even remotely offering a degree in what I wanted. Room and board came out to be cheaper than the time, fuel and maintenance.
Average rent for most of NY state is considerably higher than even a 20 year mortgage on a house 25% higher than average. It's that pesky 20% down that's hard to get to.
I did the beater car thing. Turns out that's more expensive than a newer car (4 years old in this case) once you figure in repairs.
I have a job with hours that, while often flexible, aren't flexible enough due to the pesky little customer interaction thing.
Closer to the workplace means at least another $200/mo for a smaller apartment with fewer amenities. Another city means living in a place I don't want to and moving away from a job that I enjoy and family that I get along with (not to mention moving costs which are unfeasible if you're choosing the $99 Xbox... which is the original argument)
go to college right out of high school
For those who live in a sufficiently large city, the local campus of the state college exists, as do jobs that require only a high school diploma.
I went to a state school, still wound up with $23,000 in loans. They're more affordable, but still difficult to do unless you're also working full time (30 hours of classes a week on top of 40 hours of working is no fun... especially when you consider you're expected to spend double the time on work outside of the classroom that you spend in it).
buy a house before they're 40
One can rent until one has enough money saved up to buy a house with cash.
If you make enough money, yes. Rent isn't all that cheap, even for a small one bedroom or studio.
a car that they need to get to a job
Not necessary. Bicycles, buses, and carpools exist. In fact, I rode a bike to work today.
That may be true if you live in/near the city. Since I started working at age 14, I've only lived within biking distance of work for a total of 9 months. I've only been on a bus route for 2 years (between two different apartments) and both routes would require that I leave 90 minutes earlier and change busses at least 3 times. Plus I would lose an extra half hour at the beginning of the day for arriving too early and have to wait an hour after I clock out to catch the next bus. My time is more valuable than that. Before I moved to this city, there was no public transportation and very, very few other people even commuting in the same direction as I was.
It's no different than student loans, mortgages (any loans really), leasing a car, etc... you pay more in the long run and in return, you get the product sooner than if you had to pay for it up front. This business model is what enables people to go to college right out of high school, to buy a house before they're 40 and to get a car that they need to get to a job to get money for the car.