It is likely that reliability will start to go up over the next few years.
I am basing this statement on the idea that people will pay more (overall, per gigabyte, whatever) for a more reliable 1 terabyte drive (or perhaps 500 gigabyte drive) than they will for a less reliable 2 or 4 terabyte drive. Probably not everybody (bigger is better is a huge crowd), but perhaps enough people that it is worth it for manufacturers to compete for their business.
I can't imagine that most people need much more than 500 gigabytes (so, people who think they need to archive tv/movies, people who work with video, and people who take a great deal of high quality photographs are the people I am not talking about...).
Also, it is pretty clear that the enforcement of the TOS was highly selective (i.e., the only time they investigate whether a user provided accurate information is when they are facing a negative public relations event).
If free (And I mean freeware, open source and Free software here) software serves the exact same function as the for-pay software, the other company is benefiting as much as Microsoft is losing.
So that doesn't completely nullify your point, because there is a good chance that the non-pay alternative will be slightly different than the for-pay solution, but it sure does mitigate it.
Actually, you can compile python into an intermediate bytecode, and then distribute that (I imagine this is similar for the other languages you mention). It is relatively trivial to decompile/reverse engineer (the tools come with python), but you don't absolutely have to have the source.
Presumably, you are heating your house/dwelling. 100% of the energy used by the refrigerator contributes to this task. There aren't any energy savings, and unless your heating fuel is extremely cheap and your electricity is extremely expensive, the difference in the energy costs will never make up for the cost of the additional equipment (you will still need a warm air system during the summer).
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Your post thoroughly endorses moral relativism and then closes by saying "be wary of moral relativism".
Do you mean "be aware of" or are you just confused?
Every hear of the boy who cried wolf?
It is likely that reliability will start to go up over the next few years.
I am basing this statement on the idea that people will pay more (overall, per gigabyte, whatever) for a more reliable 1 terabyte drive (or perhaps 500 gigabyte drive) than they will for a less reliable 2 or 4 terabyte drive. Probably not everybody (bigger is better is a huge crowd), but perhaps enough people that it is worth it for manufacturers to compete for their business.
I can't imagine that most people need much more than 500 gigabytes (so, people who think they need to archive tv/movies, people who work with video, and people who take a great deal of high quality photographs are the people I am not talking about...).
Also, it is pretty clear that the enforcement of the TOS was highly selective (i.e., the only time they investigate whether a user provided accurate information is when they are facing a negative public relations event).
Phish is a blight upon the history of mankind that may never be lived down.
Also, it was The Gourds that recorded the cover of Gin and Juice, not Phish. Just so everyone knows.
The more expensive option is clearly better.
I suggest raising your rates.
Who cares? The self discharge rate of most batteries is probably worse than a lot of current laptops.
If free (And I mean freeware, open source and Free software here) software serves the exact same function as the for-pay software, the other company is benefiting as much as Microsoft is losing.
So that doesn't completely nullify your point, because there is a good chance that the non-pay alternative will be slightly different than the for-pay solution, but it sure does mitigate it.
How would a drug that partially compensated for a physiological defect necessarily make someone without the defect smarter?
I would tend to think that it wouldn't.
Have you looked at rapidshare/megaupload/mediafire/megashares/zshares/badongo lately?
Visit Manistee, Michigan sometime. Their landfill reeks.
(In general though, I agree that landfills get a bad rap.)
It sounds like the solution is to leech.
Actually, you can compile python into an intermediate bytecode, and then distribute that (I imagine this is similar for the other languages you mention). It is relatively trivial to decompile/reverse engineer (the tools come with python), but you don't absolutely have to have the source.
How sure are that it would be financially unsound? For starters, that's what the movie industry thought about VHS.
Bad example. Bodman is a competent former scientist.
The trick with online services is to make sure that you know how to get your data out, and to do it on a regular basis.
For reference sake, 100% of 1 core on an Intel Core Duo at 1.66 GHz, with 2 Gig of ram and intel integrated graphics (a not that ancient laptop...).
Electric heat is never produced inefficiently (from a thermodynamic perspective). The only consideration is that it is less economic.
I don't think you are a retard.
That said, are you really sure that your event loop cannot be improved?
It consumes 100% cpu at the opening screen. "It's a physics game" doesn't really work at that point.
And really, instead of imagining it not running, I don't bother running poorly written flash.
Slick. You event loop stinks though (there are plenty of games on Kongregate that actually do nothing when they are doing nothing).
Presumably, you are heating your house/dwelling. 100% of the energy used by the refrigerator contributes to this task. There aren't any energy savings, and unless your heating fuel is extremely cheap and your electricity is extremely expensive, the difference in the energy costs will never make up for the cost of the additional equipment (you will still need a warm air system during the summer).
On XP, on a modest laptop (2 years old), foobar 2000 will build a full playlist of 14,000 tracks in about 20 seconds, with full metadata.
A decent music player shouldn't need any database.
Perhaps he simply consumed 3 grams of caffeine without bothering with the coffee?
Asking someone may not help.