Fuse? Who needs that when the entire house is wired with circuit breakers. Fast enough to save your life if you drop the hairdryer into the bathtub. Most new houses have those, and then it doesn't matter if your outlets and plugs are old coat hangers.
1.1.1 -> 1.1.2 - bugfix only, no change in what the end-user sees. 1.1.1 -> 1.2.0 - new features, perhaps a button in the UI has moved. Still fully compatible with the previous version. Documents should be stored identically, network protocols unchanged. 1.1.1 -> 2.0.0 - major release, might very well break functionality, documents may have to be converted from previous versions, UI can change drastically.
In a straight line yes, but with any kind of turns on the road the bike gets owned. I mean, I have a Mazda MX-5, pretty much the cheapest roadster you can get. It has 160 hp on 950 kg, and I've left a bike with 120 hp on 200 kg behind on a very squiggly road. Bikes don't handle. And with a car, if you lose grip you have the possibility of getting back control. Lose control with a bike, and you are an organ donor.
> For my part, I wonder what the engineering expended on a Veyron could have produced if turned toward more widely applicable efforts.
But by building the Veyron, the engineers found problems that they wouldn't have found by building small hatchbacks. Ideas then are refined, and trickles down to normal roadcars.
The local repair shop here uses a USB stick with one of each of most common files (word docs, movies, music, pictures) and uses that for testing.
No need to check My Documents for that.
Though, sometimes there isn't even a need to dig around... I used to do techsupport over phone, with remote desktop software. And there it was, in the middle of the desktop "gay sucking hot cock.mpg"...
Give RIAA time to lobby through some new laws. After that I'd rather get caugh with childporn than MP3's. What is 20 years getting assraped in prison compared to what RIAA wants to do to filesharers?
Okay, so a friend suddenly gives you a large amount of money. Is it okay to accept it? Most probably yes. But, what if he robbed a bank, and you knew it. Is it still okay to accept it? If he lies and says that he didn't rob the bank? You didn't do anything wrong, and he lied to you, does these two facts make it okay to accept stolen money? No.
If someone does something wrong, it is also wrong for you to profit from that. You post to slashdot, you know for a fact that ISPs are lying, yet you cling on to the lie of unlimited bandwidth and try to shift all the responsibility to the ISP.
But, if you know that your ISP is lying about the available bandwidth, which you know for a fact that they are, then you acting on that lie makes you unethical.
You didn't buy _your_ bandwidth, you bought a share in a pool of common bandwidth. You pay 20 bucks for tens of Mb of bandwidth. Lines that are guaranteed to a certain speed can cost up to hundreds of dollars for 10 Mb. You know that you are paying for the cheap, shared connection. You are now going to an all you can eat buffet, and gobbling up as much food as you can, yet as an adult you pay the children's fee. The buffet planned the prices lower for children, because they know that children do not eat as much, and therefore they can have lower prices. Do you then go and complain, "but I paid for unlimited food, and have only eaten 13 pizzas, you can't throw me out"?
Nope, I didn't say that any usage is unethical. Compare this to a party, where the host has provided a piece of cake for everyone. It's not polite to gobble up half the cake when there are lots of people to share. We can of course argue that host (ISP) is not a good host for not providing all the cake (bandwidth) you can eat.
Same with ISPs, they provide enough bandwidth for basic usage, but if you are going to serve out half of Ubuntu's updates, it's polite to pay for a pipe that is designed for actual hosting.
> apt-p2p'ing is ethical whether it's legal or not.
Ooh.. you're making a bold claim there. If you're on a shared connection, which you are if you have residental cable/DSL, your apt-p2p:ing causes harm to your neighbour's bandwidth. Sure, the fault is at the ISP for oversubscribing lines, but when you are aware of that fact, wouldn't your apt-p2p:ing then be unethical?
I know that this is splitting hairs, but you simply can't go claim something is ethical like that without thinking. Now, I haven't really figured out who decides what is ethical or not, but I'm pretty sure it's not you.
I know you're being sarcastic, but the altitude meters in aircrafts works on atmospheric pressure. The exact same pressure that tends to fluctuate in storms.
A few years ago I bought a domain for personal use, and accidentally got the wrong one. I was planning on [mynickname].net, but got [mynickname].org.
When the.org was about to expire I was going to nab the.net one, but at that point some chinese webstore was running on the adress. A year later it expired, and some squatter took it, and wanted several thousand dollars for it. Waited a year more, the squatter expired and I got my precious domain for only the registration fee.
Actually software like SAP requre their own administrative/support staff. SAP is so complex (=administrative nightmare) that a company must have specialists available if they are to purchase it. And purchasing SAP is not because of lack of technical expertise, it's because software in that scale takes years and years to develop and test. Buy it, and it's up and running in a few weeks.
It's not only about the energy it takes to run a fridge. It's the energy costs to dig up iron ore, melt it and mix it to steel, mold a fridge, and transport it from the other side of the world.
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Fuse? Who needs that when the entire house is wired with circuit breakers. Fast enough to save your life if you drop the hairdryer into the bathtub.
Most new houses have those, and then it doesn't matter if your outlets and plugs are old coat hangers.
Because you can whack your system partition and reinstall the OS, without touching the data on the other partition. Basics.
Uh, your mixing up sales tax and VAT.
Read first paragraph: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_added_tax
1.1.1 -> 1.1.2 - bugfix only, no change in what the end-user sees.
1.1.1 -> 1.2.0 - new features, perhaps a button in the UI has moved. Still fully compatible with the previous version. Documents should be stored identically, network protocols unchanged.
1.1.1 -> 2.0.0 - major release, might very well break functionality, documents may have to be converted from previous versions, UI can change drastically.
In a straight line yes, but with any kind of turns on the road the bike gets owned.
I mean, I have a Mazda MX-5, pretty much the cheapest roadster you can get. It has 160 hp on 950 kg, and I've left a bike with 120 hp on 200 kg behind on a very squiggly road. Bikes don't handle. And with a car, if you lose grip you have the possibility of getting back control. Lose control with a bike, and you are an organ donor.
Not really, Porche does own most of VW stock.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7697082.stm
> For my part, I wonder what the engineering expended on a Veyron could have produced if turned toward more widely applicable efforts.
But by building the Veyron, the engineers found problems that they wouldn't have found by building small hatchbacks. Ideas then are refined, and trickles down to normal roadcars.
Put her into a closet with a jar and this: http://p-mate.com/eng/intro.html
Not in all countries. In some countries the light is turned on by flipping the switch down. Gets confusing for the first few weeks.
Try Tiananmen perhaps?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989
What about ferries? A hour long ferry ride would be the perfect use for a TV, but the satnav shuts itself down when the ferry leaves the port.
The local repair shop here uses a USB stick with one of each of most common files (word docs, movies, music, pictures) and uses that for testing.
No need to check My Documents for that.
Though, sometimes there isn't even a need to dig around... I used to do techsupport over phone, with remote desktop software. And there it was, in the middle of the desktop "gay sucking hot cock.mpg"...
Give RIAA time to lobby through some new laws. After that I'd rather get caugh with childporn than MP3's. What is 20 years getting assraped in prison compared to what RIAA wants to do to filesharers?
I'd say it's more like the mechanic would rip open the door or dashboard to find drugs, when he was supposed to replace the brakepads.
Dead guy in the trunk is like putting child porn as the desktop wallpaper.
Okay, so a friend suddenly gives you a large amount of money. Is it okay to accept it? Most probably yes.
But, what if he robbed a bank, and you knew it. Is it still okay to accept it? If he lies and says that he didn't rob the bank?
You didn't do anything wrong, and he lied to you, does these two facts make it okay to accept stolen money? No.
If someone does something wrong, it is also wrong for you to profit from that. You post to slashdot, you know for a fact that ISPs are lying, yet you cling on to the lie of unlimited bandwidth and try to shift all the responsibility to the ISP.
But, if you know that your ISP is lying about the available bandwidth, which you know for a fact that they are, then you acting on that lie makes you unethical.
You didn't buy _your_ bandwidth, you bought a share in a pool of common bandwidth. You pay 20 bucks for tens of Mb of bandwidth. Lines that are guaranteed to a certain speed can cost up to hundreds of dollars for 10 Mb. You know that you are paying for the cheap, shared connection.
You are now going to an all you can eat buffet, and gobbling up as much food as you can, yet as an adult you pay the children's fee. The buffet planned the prices lower for children, because they know that children do not eat as much, and therefore they can have lower prices. Do you then go and complain, "but I paid for unlimited food, and have only eaten 13 pizzas, you can't throw me out"?
Strawman alert!
Nope, I didn't say that any usage is unethical. Compare this to a party, where the host has provided a piece of cake for everyone. It's not polite to gobble up half the cake when there are lots of people to share. We can of course argue that host (ISP) is not a good host for not providing all the cake (bandwidth) you can eat.
Same with ISPs, they provide enough bandwidth for basic usage, but if you are going to serve out half of Ubuntu's updates, it's polite to pay for a pipe that is designed for actual hosting.
> apt-p2p'ing is ethical whether it's legal or not.
Ooh.. you're making a bold claim there. If you're on a shared connection, which you are if you have residental cable/DSL, your apt-p2p:ing causes harm to your neighbour's bandwidth. Sure, the fault is at the ISP for oversubscribing lines, but when you are aware of that fact, wouldn't your apt-p2p:ing then be unethical?
I know that this is splitting hairs, but you simply can't go claim something is ethical like that without thinking. Now, I haven't really figured out who decides what is ethical or not, but I'm pretty sure it's not you.
I know you're being sarcastic, but the altitude meters in aircrafts works on atmospheric pressure. The exact same pressure that tends to fluctuate in storms.
Opera widgets == Firefox extensions. :)
Refer to Qt as a toolkit and not as a widget set to lessen the confusion
A few years ago I bought a domain for personal use, and accidentally got the wrong one. I was planning on [mynickname].net, but got [mynickname].org.
When the .org was about to expire I was going to nab the .net one, but at that point some chinese webstore was running on the adress. A year later it expired, and some squatter took it, and wanted several thousand dollars for it. Waited a year more, the squatter expired and I got my precious domain for only the registration fee.
Actually software like SAP requre their own administrative/support staff. SAP is so complex (=administrative nightmare) that a company must have specialists available if they are to purchase it.
And purchasing SAP is not because of lack of technical expertise, it's because software in that scale takes years and years to develop and test. Buy it, and it's up and running in a few weeks.
New bill the next day?
Compared to that speed, our governments are stuck in a tar pit, and yet there are more laws than we can possibly comprehend.
And how about when 4chan arranges a vote to put goatse on the flag, and will crapflood people to vote yes?
It's not only about the energy it takes to run a fridge. It's the energy costs to dig up iron ore, melt it and mix it to steel, mold a fridge, and transport it from the other side of the world.
Yes, because we all know that terrorists like to do some sightseeing before crashing their plane.
Moron.