Not to mention, if you've got a disk array that can keep up with 10.2Gbps/seconds of uncompressed video write (or a CPU array that can compress such a stream on the fly), you're probably not sweating the cost of a legitimate copy of Casino Royale.
If you're dedicated enough to an idea, you'll quit your day job. If you're not living on the edge, you'll live the rest of your life dreaming of what could have been.
That would be inspiring if your next sentence wasn't "... and that's why I spent my life savings to found FerretTube."
There is some merit to what Siracusa is saying, at least on gaming and multimedia fronts.
Windows was a hamstrung peformer for graphics until NT 4.0 saw rearchitecture which placed key portions of the OS (including 3rd-party graphics drivers) at a much lower level.
If he couldn't be bothered to clean up blood from his car and to get rid of his books on homicide, how the hell can we trust this guy to free memory on the heap?
The issue the university has a problem with isn't his talent, it's his ethics.
Say what you will about the campus' network security and policies, but the bottom line is that he agreed to abide by the campus network's terms of service and then flouted them... because he wanted to.
What about this fellow's actions suggests that he would be any more trustworthy or rule-abiding as an employee of any company (other than perhaps his own sole proprietorship)?
I see your point about it being annoying, but have you put the machine under 100% load and observed that Thunderbird still consumes the same 5% of CPU?
Until you know that, what performance can you truly say really being "lost" if the machine is otherwise 95% idle?
Are you arguing that it's wasting electric power or wasting performance?
Perhaps it is a bug, or perhaps some task is being scheduled opportunistically when there is nothing else to do.
If the students were armed, as provided for by the 2nd amendment, someone could have dropped that guy early on and saved 30 or more people.
Look, whatever. The issue at hand isn't guns. It's Hypnogenic Ninjitsu.
If the students had been trained as ninjas with the power to hypnotize their attackers, as provided for by Bob's Ninjitsu and Hypnosis College, someone could have done the Stare-of-Freezing to that guy early on and saved 30 or more people. Chalk up another bunch of deaths to the anti-Ninja agenda of American citizens by the mommy government. There will be no correction, though; instead of people going "well duh, I should take Hypnogenic Ninjitsu classes in case some crazy bastard shows up in my face somewhere", they'll just take a bunch more of your martial arts education away at the schools - restrict your hypnosis lessons, require Ninja-study permission slips, make you wear "guns don't kill people, Ninjas do" T-shirts,... and a year or so from now, some crazy will do the same thing again, perhaps slightly more cleverly and with more throwing stars.
That aside, what offends me most is that this thread is this horrific notion that we've devolved to a point where the meaning of the term "American dream" has mutated from 'boundless opportunity in the marketplace and the ability to move out of the economic class you were born into' to 'lifetime employment at Circuit City'.
The American Dream as I understand it is that when you get laid off from a shitty dead-end job you can go out and find or create something better if you have the drive and/or ability for it.
The thing about the American Dream, as I understand it, is that the dream (including where it begins and "dead ends") is wholly subject to the interpretation of the dreamer.
And so it is always "mutating".
So your view, the one that comes part and parcel with condescension to "lesser dreamers", is more aptly named something else.
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Not to mention, if you've got a disk array that can keep up with 10.2Gbps/seconds of uncompressed video write (or a CPU array that can compress such a stream on the fly), you're probably not sweating the cost of a legitimate copy of Casino Royale.
For millions of balding men, there may be a light at the end of the tunnel.
Or in the case of Patrick Stewart, four lights!
That would be inspiring if your next sentence wasn't "... and that's why I spent my life savings to found FerretTube."
That would be a better deal, and with capital like that, you'd be able to both live and work in Fantasyland.
i sort of expected some low ID blowhard to start a karma-be-damned dick-swinging cascade in response to the anonymous pussy
There is some merit to what Siracusa is saying, at least on gaming and multimedia fronts.
Windows was a hamstrung peformer for graphics until NT 4.0 saw rearchitecture which placed key portions of the OS (including 3rd-party graphics drivers) at a much lower level.
If he couldn't be bothered to clean up blood from his car and to get rid of his books on homicide, how the hell can we trust this guy to free memory on the heap?
More importantly, Zima has found a market!
That's not a title. She's a Native American, you insensitive clod.
Say what you will about the campus' network security and policies, but the bottom line is that he agreed to abide by the campus network's terms of service and then flouted them ... because he wanted to.
What about this fellow's actions suggests that he would be any more trustworthy or rule-abiding as an employee of any company (other than perhaps his own sole proprietorship)?
I see your point about it being annoying, but have you put the machine under 100% load and observed that Thunderbird still consumes the same 5% of CPU?
Until you know that, what performance can you truly say really being "lost" if the machine is otherwise 95% idle?
Are you arguing that it's wasting electric power or wasting performance?
Perhaps it is a bug, or perhaps some task is being scheduled opportunistically when there is nothing else to do.
It's not really a waste unless your CPU usage was above 95% to begin with. Why so stingy?
Watch your back, Eudora for Windows 3.1!
Look, whatever. The issue at hand isn't guns. It's Hypnogenic Ninjitsu.
If the students had been trained as ninjas with the power to hypnotize their attackers, as provided for by Bob's Ninjitsu and Hypnosis College, someone could have done the Stare-of-Freezing to that guy early on and saved 30 or more people. Chalk up another bunch of deaths to the anti-Ninja agenda of American citizens by the mommy government. There will be no correction, though; instead of people going "well duh, I should take Hypnogenic Ninjitsu classes in case some crazy bastard shows up in my face somewhere", they'll just take a bunch more of your martial arts education away at the schools - restrict your hypnosis lessons, require Ninja-study permission slips, make you wear "guns don't kill people, Ninjas do" T-shirts, ... and a year or so from now, some crazy will do the same thing again, perhaps slightly more cleverly and with more throwing stars.
It doesn't take much reasoning to show why this must be the case.
So why is Ohm resistant?
Me too, but the real ark departed 15 years ago.
Subtle difference:
October's release was polydimensional, but this one is multivariate.
The forthcoming release, tentatively entitled "Google Website Optimizer", is expected to be panfactorial.
Let's just hope they don't use any O'Reilly publications as textbooks. I mean seriously, is it me or did their quality peak in 1992?
This is intentional and symbolizes the company's value proposition, the Empty Promise (TM).
The thing about the American Dream, as I understand it, is that the dream (including where it begins and "dead ends") is wholly subject to the interpretation of the dreamer.
And so it is always "mutating".
So your view, the one that comes part and parcel with condescension to "lesser dreamers", is more aptly named something else.
Maybe the Skyshadow Dream.
Just because they're not paid for their performance doesn't mean their performance is not evaluated on the basis of sales.
The whole "don't worry, I'm not commission" line that Best Buy made famous is just that, a ploy to comfort the mark.
It all comes down to quality, and at Fjord, quality is job 1.
I did not realize tumors could get tumors.
Come again?