It may be chilling if you are watching a scary movie, but after the lights come up you realize the resemblance of this disaster to a fictional work doesn't add any to the already chilling facts.
How about this: "There is a disaster at the bottom of the sea," which is chilling, considering the events that occurred in 'The Abyss'.
I am going to make a computer with FIVE states! That will be much better than a quantum computer because it has FIVE, you see. And it will be an AI because it has FIVE states, and normal computers only have two.
Actually, I will have EIGHT states just to make sure the competition can't catch up to me.
I will be implementing my EIGHT states as 3 binary bits, but that's not important right now.
1. Slashdot's quote of the day under your post read: "I just ate a whole package of Sweet Tarts and a can of Coke. I think I saw God. -- B. Hathrume Duk"
2. I am actually impressed with the attention to what kids are eating. I've been watching "Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution" which shows school lunches to be practically lethal in their lack of nutrition, and fat/grease/salt/artificial additives (at least in West Virginia).
Since there is no restriction on what foods the parents pack for their kids, as a parent I would be compelled to make a statement by sending my child to school with a large lunchbox filled to the rim with Jolly Ranchers with instructions to sit through detention enjoying them visibly and loudly. I would make sure I spoke with the administration beforehand so they understood I will be doing this.
Without a Monopoly someone will always step in and offer a less expensive product to satisfy that segment of the market. The existence of a higher priced choice does not in any way negate the parent's point.
If I subscribe to cable TV I might follow 5-10 shows, along with my family members following their own favorite shows. Most shows have 20-26 episodes per season. If I instead drop cable TV and purchase my episodes, at $2/episode x 10 shows x 4 family members x 26 episodes x 3 seasons I would be paying $6,240 per year or $520/month for the privilege on the high end, or $1,800 per year or $150/month on the low end.
You are incorrect. A poster above pointed out that I wasn't clear if I follow 5-10 shows per year or per season. I follow about 5 shows per season; So if I do the math: $1/episode x 5 shows x 3 seasons x 4 family members x 20-26 episodes = $1,200/yr - $1,560/yr or $100/mo - $130/mo. That is a lot closer to the cost of a full cable lineup. And realistically, my family doesn't care for TV as much as I do and both my kids watch the same shows, so it would end up costing less than cable TV (although we would be "getting less" for our money than with cable TV, we would be getting what we wanted).
So $1/episode is a better choice than a cable subscription if you don't watch too much TV. Cable TV is a better choice if you watch a lot of TV. That sounds competitive.
If Hulu offers me a choice of $1 ad-free or $0 with ads, I will choose $0 with ads mainly because it's a hassle to register a username and enter a credit card. I don't want hassles. If Hulu only has the choice of $1 ad-free then I will pay the money and watch my show, as I stated I would.
Or perhaps I misunderstood your argument and you are just sticking your tongue out and going "nah-nah I don't believe you", in which case there's not much I can say in reply. I already paid for Play-On to get Hulu to my TV screen so I am confident my wallet isn't cemented shut when it comes to TV entertainment.
Don't be ridiculous. I agree completely that $2/episode is too much, and it has nothing to do with whining about current pricing. It has everything to do with comparing prices with comparable purchases.
If I subscribe to cable TV I might follow 5-10 shows, along with my family members following their own favorite shows. Most shows have 20-26 episodes per season. If I instead drop cable TV and purchase my episodes, at $2/episode x 10 shows x 4 family members x 26 episodes x 3 seasons I would be paying $6,240 per year or $520/month for the privilege on the high end, or $1,800 per year or $150/month on the low end.
That is ridiculous pricing! Clearly they are NOT pricing individual episodes at a competitive price to cable TV.
I have already canceled cable TV in my house and I watch the few shows I follow on Hulu. I would be happy to pay $1 per episode to watch without commercials and to avoid any hassle downloading or getting Hulu onto my TV screen instead of a computer monitor. I will never pay $2 per episode.
Banks are quite eager to accept that all of their customers are infected. That will enable them to throw the blame onto the customers when their accounts get hacked.
Why do you think they call it "identity theft"? My identity hasn't been stolen from me. A vendor's shitty security has given it away.
Spammers will buy 'spam credits' from clean secure users to stay spam-neutral. The overall effect will be a cleaner Internet. I myself will be setting up the clearinghouse / broker for spam credits as a service to the community at large.
I hate them because they silently make changes to MY computer without my permission or knowledge. They are sneaky and untrustworthy.
Why couldn't they just list these patches along with the ones they DID disclose?
It fits right in with the entire design of their operating systems. Hide information from the owner, "for their own good." Time and time again I spend hours or days struggling with problems whos root comes down to Microsoft thought I shouldn't know what is really happening inside my computer. Well, not everything can be fixed by a damn talking paperclip.
Clippy: "Hi, I noticed you were trying to buy one billion shares of Proctor and Gamble even though there are less than a billion in existence. Would you like me to make that a shortcut for you?"
Phwew! Thank you Microsoft. Just yesterday I posted that I usually find a reason to hate Microsoft each day, but yesterday I loved the new Office 10. Thanks for bringing me back to my comfortable place.
Each day I find a new reason to hate Microsoft. Yesterday it was because Outlook hides the true email addresses and substitutes it's best guess of the person's name. So if I correspond with 10 people named "Joe" with 10 different email addresses, Outlook will display "Joe" for all of them. Arhg!
But having said that, I have installed Microsoft Office 2010 Beta and I love it. It works really well and has lots of little features that work really intuitively. For example, I hit control-A and it auto-selects the table around my position CORRECTLY. It figures out where the table boundaries are and it always gets it right (so far). I hit control-A a second time and it selects-all (the whole worksheet). But the killer feature for me is collaboratively working on spreadsheets over the web. I use this feature every day. It's why I installed Office 2010. Excel is worlds better than Google sheets.
So today I love Microsoft.
Don't worry Slashdot, I'm sure I'll find a reason to hate them again tomorrow.
Can I live in your world? It's so clean and simple.
Cop: "Hey Louie, I haven't arrested you in months. Living clean?" Louie: "Yeah, don't bother me. I've been staying outta trouble." Cop: "Look Louie, I think I smell something in your car. I think I have to run you in. Or maybe you can help me out. I need some stuff that's in that house over there."
Just like an employee. I wonder if he gets dental.
Wow, that's a slippery slope. So the police can "encourage" third parties to obtain evidence illegally, then use that evidence. For various definitions of "encourage" which will include pay, bribe, threaten, trade, plea-bargain, extort, harass, intimidate, and some I probably haven't thought of.
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Thank goodness they finally realized the command line is much more efficient than a GUI.
It's a shame they just gave us a ONE LINE command line.
Why is that a big deal?
(defun first (l) (car l))
(defun rest (l) (cdr l))
There. Was that so hard?
(first mylist)
(rest mylist)
"Which is chilling"?
It may be chilling if you are watching a scary movie, but after the lights come up you realize the resemblance of this disaster to a fictional work doesn't add any to the already chilling facts.
How about this:
"There is a disaster at the bottom of the sea," which is chilling, considering the events that occurred in 'The Abyss'.
I am going to make a computer with FIVE states!
That will be much better than a quantum computer because it has FIVE, you see.
And it will be an AI because it has FIVE states, and normal computers only have two.
Actually, I will have EIGHT states just to make sure the competition can't catch up to me.
I will be implementing my EIGHT states as 3 binary bits, but that's not important right now.
1. Slashdot's quote of the day under your post read:
"I just ate a whole package of Sweet Tarts and a can of Coke. I think I saw God. -- B. Hathrume Duk"
2. I am actually impressed with the attention to what kids are eating. I've been watching "Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution" which shows school lunches to be practically lethal in their lack of nutrition, and fat/grease/salt/artificial additives (at least in West Virginia).
Since there is no restriction on what foods the parents pack for their kids, as a parent I would be compelled to make a statement by sending my child to school with a large lunchbox filled to the rim with Jolly Ranchers with instructions to sit through detention enjoying them visibly and loudly. I would make sure I spoke with the administration beforehand so they understood I will be doing this.
Without a Monopoly someone will always step in and offer a less expensive product to satisfy that segment of the market. The existence of a higher priced choice does not in any way negate the parent's point.
If I subscribe to cable TV I might follow 5-10 shows, along with my family members following their own favorite shows. Most shows have 20-26 episodes per season.
If I instead drop cable TV and purchase my episodes, at $2/episode x 10 shows x 4 family members x 26 episodes x 3 seasons I would be paying $6,240 per year or $520/month for the privilege on the high end, or $1,800 per year or $150/month on the low end.
You are incorrect. A poster above pointed out that I wasn't clear if I follow 5-10 shows per year or per season. I follow about 5 shows per season; So if I do the math:
$1/episode x 5 shows x 3 seasons x 4 family members x 20-26 episodes = $1,200/yr - $1,560/yr or $100/mo - $130/mo. That is a lot closer to the cost of a full cable lineup. And realistically, my family doesn't care for TV as much as I do and both my kids watch the same shows, so it would end up costing less than cable TV (although we would be "getting less" for our money than with cable TV, we would be getting what we wanted).
So $1/episode is a better choice than a cable subscription if you don't watch too much TV. Cable TV is a better choice if you watch a lot of TV.
That sounds competitive.
$2/episode is priced to fail.
Your argument makes no sense.
If Hulu offers me a choice of $1 ad-free or $0 with ads, I will choose $0 with ads mainly because it's a hassle to register a username and enter a credit card. I don't want hassles.
If Hulu only has the choice of $1 ad-free then I will pay the money and watch my show, as I stated I would.
Or perhaps I misunderstood your argument and you are just sticking your tongue out and going "nah-nah I don't believe you", in which case there's not much I can say in reply. I already paid for Play-On to get Hulu to my TV screen so I am confident my wallet isn't cemented shut when it comes to TV entertainment.
Don't be ridiculous. I agree completely that $2/episode is too much, and it has nothing to do with whining about current pricing.
It has everything to do with comparing prices with comparable purchases.
If I subscribe to cable TV I might follow 5-10 shows, along with my family members following their own favorite shows. Most shows have 20-26 episodes per season.
If I instead drop cable TV and purchase my episodes, at $2/episode x 10 shows x 4 family members x 26 episodes x 3 seasons I would be paying $6,240 per year or $520/month for the privilege on the high end, or $1,800 per year or $150/month on the low end.
That is ridiculous pricing! Clearly they are NOT pricing individual episodes at a competitive price to cable TV.
I have already canceled cable TV in my house and I watch the few shows I follow on Hulu. I would be happy to pay $1 per episode to watch without commercials and to avoid any hassle downloading or getting Hulu onto my TV screen instead of a computer monitor. I will never pay $2 per episode.
Banks are quite eager to accept that all of their customers are infected. That will enable them to throw the blame onto the customers when their accounts get hacked.
Why do you think they call it "identity theft"? My identity hasn't been stolen from me. A vendor's shitty security has given it away.
Spammers will buy 'spam credits' from clean secure users to stay spam-neutral. The overall effect will be a cleaner Internet.
I myself will be setting up the clearinghouse / broker for spam credits as a service to the community at large.
I hate them because they silently make changes to MY computer without my permission or knowledge.
They are sneaky and untrustworthy.
Why couldn't they just list these patches along with the ones they DID disclose?
It fits right in with the entire design of their operating systems. Hide information from the owner, "for their own good."
Time and time again I spend hours or days struggling with problems whos root comes down to Microsoft thought I shouldn't know what is really happening inside my computer.
Well, not everything can be fixed by a damn talking paperclip.
Clippy: "Hi, I noticed that you are arguing with an anthropomorphic office supply. Would you like to have a debate?"
Clippy: "Hi, I noticed you were trying to buy one billion shares of Proctor and Gamble even though there are less than a billion in existence. Would you like me to make that a shortcut for you?"
Phwew! Thank you Microsoft. Just yesterday I posted that I usually find a reason to hate Microsoft each day, but yesterday I loved the new Office 10. Thanks for bringing me back to my comfortable place.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1641038&cid=32102920&art_pos=1
Each day I find a new reason to hate Microsoft. Yesterday it was because Outlook hides the true email addresses and substitutes it's best guess of the person's name. So if I correspond with 10 people named "Joe" with 10 different email addresses, Outlook will display "Joe" for all of them. Arhg!
But having said that, I have installed Microsoft Office 2010 Beta and I love it. It works really well and has lots of little features that work really intuitively. For example, I hit control-A and it auto-selects the table around my position CORRECTLY. It figures out where the table boundaries are and it always gets it right (so far). I hit control-A a second time and it selects-all (the whole worksheet). But the killer feature for me is collaboratively working on spreadsheets over the web. I use this feature every day. It's why I installed Office 2010. Excel is worlds better than Google sheets.
So today I love Microsoft.
Don't worry Slashdot, I'm sure I'll find a reason to hate them again tomorrow.
Here's a link that explains how the machine is disposable, and why the parent poster felt it was important provide this information.
Buffalo bison whom other Buffalo bison bully, themselves bully Buffalo bison.
Have you tried using tar on a Windows partition? It won't run when you restore it. There is some Microsoft voodoo that tar doesn't do.
Take a look at fsarchiver. All the benefits of a dd image, with many advantages.
It only clones blocks that in use, it compressed the image, and it can restore to a different sized partition.
You heard the judge. It wouldn't be thrown out unless the third party works for law enforcement.
Yeah, right.
Can I live in your world? It's so clean and simple.
Cop: "Hey Louie, I haven't arrested you in months. Living clean?"
Louie: "Yeah, don't bother me. I've been staying outta trouble."
Cop: "Look Louie, I think I smell something in your car. I think I have to run you in. Or maybe you can help me out. I need some stuff that's in that house over there."
Just like an employee.
I wonder if he gets dental.
Wow, that's a slippery slope. So the police can "encourage" third parties to obtain evidence illegally, then use that evidence. For various definitions of "encourage" which will include pay, bribe, threaten, trade, plea-bargain, extort, harass, intimidate, and some I probably haven't thought of.
> "CHARLI H will be a fully functioning robot," said Derek Lahr, a Ph.D. student from Charleston, S.C., who is spearheading the "H" project.
Mmmm I wonder if they mean this in the same way Data meant it.