Have you seen pictures of the earth taken from space? The earth is obviously flat. You can watch the continents scroll in from the dark side. The earth is a pretty amazing circular conveyor belt.
In fairness to the fool, he is not necessarily a liar. He may just be dumb. He may quite plausibly not be smart enough to understand the difference between the fact of evolution, and the theory of evolution. I'd find that quite plausible based on my experience of the large percentage of not so bright people in this world.
Only 2 or 3 seconds really. But there are on going loads for a while, which I suppose would be sped up, but again, it's just not enough of a problem for me to care about having a hybrid HD to speed it up.
High end drives for non-laptops are up around 70 MB/sec now.
30MB/sec is actually extremely good on a laptop drive. I bought the fastest 7200 rpm laptop drive available a year ago, and it can only sustain 19MB/sec.
Heck, even without hibernation, does anyone care about boot speed anymore? I mean it's like 11 seconds once a day if you shut off your computer at night.
You're assuming there is nothing you can do with packet manipulation that will affect your traffic as it travels over the rest of the internet, which is not true. Not that I know they are doing this, but it is possible.
For example, what happens if you send the ack for a packet you haven't received yet. On a low latency network this is a severe violation of tcp fairness rules, but also an utterly safe trick.
I clarified what I meant in other followups. If you wanted to buy from a reliable vendor, and needed to buy more than ~100 x86 boxes/week, there was no vendor you could choose who did not require you to buy an MS license with every box.
And for smaller purchasers, it was at least very difficult to buy a box without an MS license, and you couldn't buy a box from any of the top 20 vendors.
The person with more wealth is the bigger target when there's less government to protect them. The more you have, the more you have to protect, and the more people will be wanting to take it from you. So there's a multiplicative effect. (assets to protect X number of people targetting those assets).
Progressive tax is the best scheme because it more fairly reflects the disproportionate benefit the higher earners are getting from the non-anarchy. So long as the progression never reaches or exceeds 100%, it can't be considered punitive, because the more you earn, the more you keep.
This is already being done. Some of the lesser cable channels are starting to do this to try to cross advertise their shows. The problem is, I can't imagine how painful it must be for someone without a DVR.
The problem is, (presumably in both countries) the disconnect between expectations:
Businesses want to hire college graduates because they assume they will be better trained to do jobs. Smart students go to college expecting to get trained to do jobs. Colleges try to teach students to think, and don't give them any job skills training. Trade schools get the students who (mostly) can't get in to a college, and try to train them to do jobs.
What businesses really ought to be doing is refusing to hire college grads and sinking their employment dollars into trade school grads, if that's really what they want. Pay good trade school grads more than you pay good college grads, and the smart students will start going to trade schools so they can earn more money in the job market.
Note that no where in the article was it even suggested that the child/children in question had admitted copying music without authorization from the copyright holder. (The clear implication was that he had discovered it, perhaps in monitoring their computer usage like a good parent should).
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Have you seen pictures of the earth taken from space? The earth is obviously flat. You can watch the continents scroll in from the dark side. The earth is a pretty amazing circular conveyor belt.
It makes you a fool and it makes you a liar.
In fairness to the fool, he is not necessarily a liar. He may just be dumb. He may quite plausibly not be smart enough to understand the difference between the fact of evolution, and the theory of evolution. I'd find that quite plausible based on my experience of the large percentage of not so bright people in this world.
Brilliant. If I wasn't banned from moderation, +1.
Ouch, that's really horrible, and post is really not going to be helped at all by the hybrid hard drives.
How the heck is this a troll?
Insightful maybe, but troll?
Moderators on crack?
Only 2 or 3 seconds really. But there are on going loads for a while, which I suppose would be sped up, but again, it's just not enough of a problem for me to care about having a hybrid HD to speed it up.
I use windows xp on a dell laptop and desktop ... post is 3 seconds, 8 more seconds to reach the xp login. The desktop is a little faster.
But if both will last, statistically, through 5 years of continuous use, do you care that much that the hard drive will last to 25? Most people don't.
And the flash will fail non-catstrophically, unlike the likely outcome for your hard drive should it fail.
High end drives for non-laptops are up around 70 MB/sec now.
30MB/sec is actually extremely good on a laptop drive. I bought the fastest 7200 rpm laptop drive available a year ago, and it can only sustain 19MB/sec.
Vista has features at the OS level to take advantage of hybrid drives.
While a hybrid could function in XP with a driver, you can't get the magic (extra fast app and os load) without vista.
Heck, even without hibernation, does anyone care about boot speed anymore? I mean it's like 11 seconds once a day if you shut off your computer at night.
Try it out ... you can do it on the linux tcp stack easily. Works very nicely.
Totally anti-network-fairness though.
For anyone who knows tcp, yes, sprinkle magic fairy dust.
For example: once every window, ack a packet you have not yet received.
You're assuming there is nothing you can do with packet manipulation that will affect your traffic as it travels over the rest of the internet, which is not true. Not that I know they are doing this, but it is possible.
For example, what happens if you send the ack for a packet you haven't received yet. On a low latency network this is a severe violation of tcp fairness rules, but also an utterly safe trick.
I clarified what I meant in other followups. If you wanted to buy from a reliable vendor, and needed to buy more than ~100 x86 boxes/week, there was no vendor you could choose who did not require you to buy an MS license with every box.
And for smaller purchasers, it was at least very difficult to buy a box without an MS license, and you couldn't buy a box from any of the top 20 vendors.
Or possibly a dead parrot.
With the cat. Dead or Alive, the cat is still there.
The person with more wealth is the bigger target when there's less government to protect them. The more you have, the more you have to protect, and the more people will be wanting to take it from you. So there's a multiplicative effect. (assets to protect X number of people targetting those assets).
Progressive tax is the best scheme because it more fairly reflects the disproportionate benefit the higher earners are getting from the non-anarchy.
So long as the progression never reaches or exceeds 100%, it can't be considered punitive, because the more you earn, the more you keep.
Actually, they don't, but since they receive that proportion of the benefit of a civilized society, they should.
http://www.ntu.org/main/page.php?PageID=6
This is already being done. Some of the lesser cable channels are starting to do this to try to cross advertise their shows. The problem is, I can't imagine how painful it must be for someone without a DVR.
The problem is, (presumably in both countries) the disconnect between expectations:
Businesses want to hire college graduates because they assume they will be better trained to do jobs.
Smart students go to college expecting to get trained to do jobs.
Colleges try to teach students to think, and don't give them any job skills training.
Trade schools get the students who (mostly) can't get in to a college, and try to train them to do jobs.
What businesses really ought to be doing is refusing to hire college grads and sinking their employment dollars into trade school grads, if that's really what they want. Pay good trade school grads more than you pay good college grads, and the smart students will start going to trade schools so they can earn more money in the job market.
Sorry, but in the US banks (with a k) are extremely heavily regulated, so you can't get away with this even if your father owns the bank.
but despite this direct admission of guilt
Note that no where in the article was it even suggested that the child/children in question had admitted copying music without authorization from the copyright holder.
(The clear implication was that he had discovered it, perhaps in monitoring their computer usage like a good parent should).