It's costing him almost $1 million each. Even if he sells them at cost, it's hard to see how it would be "affordable". Maybe he's not planning on breaking even, but that's pretty crazy to spend that much on a low income home.
Assuming he's selling them. 104 of them are apartments for pensioners.
While I've been fortunate to have never received any of that junk, I do see this as a good move... and $5 is really low. Recall it's not $5 on any purchase, but $5 over the lifetime of your account. That's... well. If that's a problem for you, how exactly do you afford to have whatever it is you're running Steam on? I'll give you the internet - maybe public wifi (or stealing it)... but unless you dug the device out of the trash and are also stealing electricity, I think spending $5 at one time or another isn't much to require.
The question really is, does the $5/account cover the costs of policing them if they do pay up.
That's my entire point... any algorithm might be able to show you what you want/need *sometimes* but they can never know what you want/need *now*. Just because you search for, lets say, "batman vs superman" several times does not mean that in this very moment when you search "super bats attack man" that you're looking for batman vs superman.
Just like a personal assistant won't know that today you're feeling like a spiced latte instead of your usual black coffee, neither will any predictive algorithm. If you keep asking your personal assistant for a spiced latte and they keep bringing you black coffee they'd be fired pretty quickly. On the other hand if you ask your assistant for the TSP report and they bring it to you when you really wanted the TPS report you can't really fault them for that now can you?
I have 123 games in my Steam library, less than 1/3rd of them are installed due to lack of space on my 1TB platter drive. 90% of the time they can sit on any format of drive and it won't matter, but the other 10% of the time they need performance and they need it right away. They're too large to be continually deleting and re-downloading, so the ideal is to have them on an SSD so they have the performance when they need it.
That's just games not including video rendering applications, audio manipulation, etc. It took me less than 5 days to fill 1TB when I first got this machine - on a monthly basis I'll churn between 750GB and 1.6TB of data between 2x1TB drives according to my ISP and that's not including local uses of which there are numerous that require both performance and lots of capacity.
They were only bad if you didn't know how to use them. I found them to be infinitely better than what we have now - even Google of 3-4 years ago was better than now.
Why would I want crappy results? I want it to give me what I want, which by definition isn't "crappy".
And you think a system built by man can divine what you and everyone else wants at the moment you type it in? That'll be the day. Until then, assume I know what I want and not your system.
Search for what I type in, not what you think I want
I want a search engine that searches for what I want, not what I type, and not even what I think I want.
I can't tell if that's sarcasm, stupidity, or trolling... you actually want a search engine that when you search it ignores your input (ie: gives top results saying "missing: stormtrooper" from a search specifically for stormtrooper information), ignores what you tell it not to give you (ie: -books will still give Google Books results) and generally give you crappy results (ie: try searching for terms which happen to coincide with a syndicated news story - it's impossible to filter out every news outlet that picks it up)?
If you find a good one let me know. I've tried Bing, DuckDuckGo and a smattering of others - they all seem to have the same results or lack any sort of depth which is highly disappointing. My next to try is Blekko - I like the concept of/topic and more of a command line concept.
What made Google so great when it was still relatively new was the results were more relevant, i.e. they weren't just a bunch of advertisements. With the rise SEO that is less the case now, and looking for something on Google for me now means adding "-buy -purchase -price -shop" automatically.
Google seems to ignore '-term' when it comes to certain sites/terms.
Day to day needs I would want 3x2TB SSDs for laptop use, a 2TB SSD external for games run directly off the drive and the remainder could be platters. That would be my ideal situation if SSDs were cheaper. I can't afford that so I've stuck entirely with platters and limiting speed factor on my system is the drives in them... I'm constantly hitting 100% usage for extended periods keeping the systems hanging.
Search for what I type in, now what you think I want. I'm so sick of having to change every search to "verbatim" because my search terms are being ignored. I'd switch to someone else but they seem to be carbon copies.
I want an SSD for the basic performance increase over platter drives for many reasons but I'm not going to pay 13 times more per GB for an SSD over a platter drive. They'd have to bring the $/GB of SSDs to under $0.15 for them to be worth switching. As is I'm looking at 10TB of storage minimum for home use.
Problem is as a consumer I could care less about the speed of SSD drives. I would like to care about the speed but they've not addressed the major problem: price. $1/GB is just insane in a $0.03/GB world. I need capacity far more than I need speed.
shoup is very easy when it's printed on the side of the machine.
To me voting machines are something that should be handled by the open source community. 100% transparent, by the people for the people in every sense, and ultimately supported financially by governments who buy the machines.
...."I think this has proved, beyond a reasonable doubt, that it's not fair to say Wikipedia is 'self-correcting.'"
It's fair to say Wikipedia is self-reenforcing and subtlety is lost.
To me, Wikipedia is a cult - you can keep sending them money, contributing to their belief system, and you can never leave (I'm serious, they have no way to delete an account)
Regardless of whether you view Snowden as a despicable traitor or an honorable whistleblower, it's worth a watch.
I didn't think so.
Oliver criticized Snowden for his complex descriptions of complex issues, and asserted that it's Snowden's job to make the facts easily digestible and relatable for the general public. It's not. In the first place, it's the media's job to do that. That is their raison d'etre. In the second place, distilling issues down to "dick pics" is part of the problem with the modern media. Why fuel that race to the bottom? Idiocracy was supposed to be satire, not prophecy.
[facepalm] Oliver, via his comedy, was simplifying the issue, making a commentary on the media, and the comprehension level of the American people. It was layered and pointed and even managed some balance all wrapped in humour. Brilliant.
"in VLC every Christmas time the cone gets a Santa hat - it's a nice touch that shows they're thinking about the end user."
unless he's muslim, hindu, baha'i, atheist,... then they switch to a non-religious player.
Santa isn't religious - he's actually sacrilegious... the whole idolatry thing. If it was a picture of Jesus or something I'd agree. It's also not shown on Dec. 25th exclusively - it's shown for most of December indicating a season not a Christian holiday.
You miss the point. If the Easter Egg code is poorly programmed it could cause problems. Since the Easter egg code is neither tested or reviewed by anyone other than the programmer it is quite possible it is poorly writen.
Quite possibly. But then again that calls your entire codebase into question. If you're sloppy in one you're likely sloppy elsewhere. That crash could cause someone to actually put eyes on code that person wrote which may have otherwise gone unnoticed. The "many eyes" concept has repeatedly been proven wrong as people tend not to go looking for problems until one appears.
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The index is pathetic on DDG - they need at least 10x the index size to be remotely useful.
It's costing him almost $1 million each. Even if he sells them at cost, it's hard to see how it would be "affordable". Maybe he's not planning on breaking even, but that's pretty crazy to spend that much on a low income home.
Assuming he's selling them. 104 of them are apartments for pensioners.
True that Valve has to police them anyway, but the more they do it out of scammers pockets and less out of users pockets the better ;)
While I've been fortunate to have never received any of that junk, I do see this as a good move... and $5 is really low. Recall it's not $5 on any purchase, but $5 over the lifetime of your account. That's... well. If that's a problem for you, how exactly do you afford to have whatever it is you're running Steam on? I'll give you the internet - maybe public wifi (or stealing it)... but unless you dug the device out of the trash and are also stealing electricity, I think spending $5 at one time or another isn't much to require.
The question really is, does the $5/account cover the costs of policing them if they do pay up.
That's my entire point... any algorithm might be able to show you what you want/need *sometimes* but they can never know what you want/need *now*. Just because you search for, lets say, "batman vs superman" several times does not mean that in this very moment when you search "super bats attack man" that you're looking for batman vs superman.
Just like a personal assistant won't know that today you're feeling like a spiced latte instead of your usual black coffee, neither will any predictive algorithm. If you keep asking your personal assistant for a spiced latte and they keep bringing you black coffee they'd be fired pretty quickly. On the other hand if you ask your assistant for the TSP report and they bring it to you when you really wanted the TPS report you can't really fault them for that now can you?
I have 123 games in my Steam library, less than 1/3rd of them are installed due to lack of space on my 1TB platter drive. 90% of the time they can sit on any format of drive and it won't matter, but the other 10% of the time they need performance and they need it right away. They're too large to be continually deleting and re-downloading, so the ideal is to have them on an SSD so they have the performance when they need it.
That's just games not including video rendering applications, audio manipulation, etc. It took me less than 5 days to fill 1TB when I first got this machine - on a monthly basis I'll churn between 750GB and 1.6TB of data between 2x1TB drives according to my ISP and that's not including local uses of which there are numerous that require both performance and lots of capacity.
So you want a magic ball
They were only bad if you didn't know how to use them. I found them to be infinitely better than what we have now - even Google of 3-4 years ago was better than now.
Why would I want crappy results? I want it to give me what I want, which by definition isn't "crappy".
And you think a system built by man can divine what you and everyone else wants at the moment you type it in? That'll be the day. Until then, assume I know what I want and not your system.
Search for what I type in, not what you think I want
I want a search engine that searches for what I want, not what I type, and not even what I think I want.
I can't tell if that's sarcasm, stupidity, or trolling... you actually want a search engine that when you search it ignores your input (ie: gives top results saying "missing: stormtrooper" from a search specifically for stormtrooper information), ignores what you tell it not to give you (ie: -books will still give Google Books results) and generally give you crappy results (ie: try searching for terms which happen to coincide with a syndicated news story - it's impossible to filter out every news outlet that picks it up)?
oops.. never mind. Blekko is already gone... hrm... maybe Ark? Seems more social than geek though.
If you find a good one let me know. I've tried Bing, DuckDuckGo and a smattering of others - they all seem to have the same results or lack any sort of depth which is highly disappointing. My next to try is Blekko - I like the concept of /topic and more of a command line concept.
What made Google so great when it was still relatively new was the results were more relevant, i.e. they weren't just a bunch of advertisements. With the rise SEO that is less the case now, and looking for something on Google for me now means adding "-buy -purchase -price -shop" automatically.
Google seems to ignore '-term' when it comes to certain sites/terms.
Day to day needs I would want 3x2TB SSDs for laptop use, a 2TB SSD external for games run directly off the drive and the remainder could be platters. That would be my ideal situation if SSDs were cheaper. I can't afford that so I've stuck entirely with platters and limiting speed factor on my system is the drives in them... I'm constantly hitting 100% usage for extended periods keeping the systems hanging.
Search for what I type in, now what you think I want. I'm so sick of having to change every search to "verbatim" because my search terms are being ignored. I'd switch to someone else but they seem to be carbon copies.
More plausibly is that there's an array of antibiotic sources in their diet/cultural medicine that led them to develop a resistance.
I want an SSD for the basic performance increase over platter drives for many reasons but I'm not going to pay 13 times more per GB for an SSD over a platter drive. They'd have to bring the $/GB of SSDs to under $0.15 for them to be worth switching. As is I'm looking at 10TB of storage minimum for home use.
Most blatant slashvertisment I've ever seen.
Problem is as a consumer I could care less about the speed of SSD drives. I would like to care about the speed but they've not addressed the major problem: price. $1/GB is just insane in a $0.03/GB world. I need capacity far more than I need speed.
The "technical reasons" are bunk. It's a computer system, anything is possible if you have the desire to make it so.
shoup is very easy when it's printed on the side of the machine.
To me voting machines are something that should be handled by the open source community. 100% transparent, by the people for the people in every sense, and ultimately supported financially by governments who buy the machines.
...."I think this has proved, beyond a reasonable doubt, that it's not fair to say Wikipedia is 'self-correcting.'"
It's fair to say Wikipedia is self-reenforcing and subtlety is lost.
To me, Wikipedia is a cult - you can keep sending them money, contributing to their belief system, and you can never leave (I'm serious, they have no way to delete an account)
Regardless of whether you view Snowden as a despicable traitor or an honorable whistleblower, it's worth a watch.
I didn't think so.
Oliver criticized Snowden for his complex descriptions of complex issues, and asserted that it's Snowden's job to make the facts easily digestible and relatable for the general public. It's not. In the first place, it's the media's job to do that. That is their raison d'etre. In the second place, distilling issues down to "dick pics" is part of the problem with the modern media. Why fuel that race to the bottom? Idiocracy was supposed to be satire, not prophecy.
[facepalm] Oliver, via his comedy, was simplifying the issue, making a commentary on the media, and the comprehension level of the American people. It was layered and pointed and even managed some balance all wrapped in humour. Brilliant.
"in VLC every Christmas time the cone gets a Santa hat - it's a nice touch that shows they're thinking about the end user."
unless he's muslim, hindu, baha'i, atheist, ... then they switch to a non-religious player.
Santa isn't religious - he's actually sacrilegious... the whole idolatry thing. If it was a picture of Jesus or something I'd agree. It's also not shown on Dec. 25th exclusively - it's shown for most of December indicating a season not a Christian holiday.
If you're not checking that a resource exists before using it, it's sloppy code.
You miss the point. If the Easter Egg code is poorly programmed it could cause problems. Since the Easter egg code is neither tested or reviewed by anyone other than the programmer it is quite possible it is poorly writen.
Quite possibly. But then again that calls your entire codebase into question. If you're sloppy in one you're likely sloppy elsewhere. That crash could cause someone to actually put eyes on code that person wrote which may have otherwise gone unnoticed. The "many eyes" concept has repeatedly been proven wrong as people tend not to go looking for problems until one appears.