Rome, Greece, Egypt, and numerous other ancient empires/realms happily blended (and even absorbed) various pagan polytheistic belief systems (Rome was pretty famous for it, as was Ptolemaic Egypt.)
Even in ancient Jerusalem (post-Solomon, during Babylon's occupation, and while the Romans owned the joint) it wasn't uncommon to see smaller pagan temples scattered about town in the shadow of The Temple, and even here, there was a percentage of the local citizenry happily worshiping (or at least paying respects to) a combination of them all. This was common in all ancient cities, but I picked Jerusalem because it's usually considered to have the most devout population.
Ordinary people were pretty copacetic about the the whole thing back then - most strangers or traders who met peacefully got to know each other by trading any pertinent news, then comparing their gods, and then gossiping or speculating about this or that ruler/government/harvest/whatever.
sibling is right... if it's so crappy, then why the need to rent-seek on them? Consider that the majority of the works' creators are dead by now (it's been 56 some-odd years), so it's not like they're directly benefiting from copyright. So who is benefiting? The kids, the corporations, and a whole lot of other people who did approximately bupkis to create these works.
Copyright is about a temporary monopoly on a creative work. It is emphatically not meant to be a perpetual money machine.
But a big desktop will outperform that big laptop, on a much larger screen, for a about a thousand dollars less, and over a permanently wired Ethernet connection that totally smokes your fastest WiFi.
Yep - but getting one past the TSA checkpoint at the airport, let alone asking the stewardess where I should plug it in? Not so useful.:)
Guess I should've been a bit clearer: I travel a lot. The laptop acts as my personal gaming box, CG workstation, on-the-go movie repository, music repository (until they make a 120GB SD card, the phone won't quite hold 'em all), Video conferencing device, VoIP station, portable development platform, VPN&RDP client (for those times when I have to pop into my work desktop for something), portable terminal device (w/ a USB-DB9 converter), and pretty much anything I want or need computer-wise while I'm out.
I still have a desktop sitting around the house, but it acts as a backup station and occasional render-farm slave node. Much more comfy sitting next to the missus on the couch while farting around on a laptop than sitting halfway across the first floor at a desk.
Well... netbooks are dead, so that's out. Not sure if the HP Mini is still around, but that's what I last had and it worked nicely w/ Ubuntu on it.
I think Dell and HP figured out that since consumers make up a tiny portion of their market, and since corporate models doesn't need all that much, well, screw making badassed laptops anymore... If Alienware wasn't so obsessed with size-uber-alles (for gaming), well...
(as per your request, I'll leave out mentioning the MB Air.)
At first I was about to demand your geek card for not using ABP and DoNotTrackMe browser extensions/add-ons. Then I saw the site.
Garish is word entirely insufficient to describe the crap layout of that website. Dunno who thought it would be somehow cool to replicate the Metro interface as a website, but whoever did should be taken out back and beaten senseless with a worn-out SCSI-2 full-height hard disk.
For most ordinary home users who go online to consume content and do brief chats/facebook/such, the answer can be a fairly easy "yes", so long as they're willing to ditch their old programs in exchange for apps. My wife did this in July by swapping to an iPad, and hasn't looked back. I think she used the bluetooth keyboard twice... meanwhile, it's replaced her PMP, camera, gaming console, and she watches movies with it on long road trips.
For crabby old tech types like me the answer is "hell no!" - I have way too much invested in CG/3D hobbyist bits and tools, I need the horsepower to render with, I type way too much, and in my estimation, screen real-estate is king. I'll stick with my MacBook Pro, thanks much.
In-between? Depends on whether or not you primarily consume content or primarily create it; therein lies your answer.
Err, not really. If we're building a *nix ATM, then you can fix it in one go: If the USB port requires elevated privs just to mount/use anything plugged into it (say, a long numbered sequence entered from the ATM keypad, unique to that machine, that would translate to a variation of "sudo/bin/mount"), the whole USB stick trick falls flat.
Not sure if there would even be a feasible analog for that in embedded XP/CE/WE
It's obvious that you are grossly ignorant about Macs.
If the reviews are fully accurate (no reason to believe otherwise), the only thing quieter than the new Mac Pro would be the original Mac Cube (which had no cooling fans at all, so you only heard something if you held your ear reaally close to it...)
Hell, even my old dual 2004-era G5 PowerMac (with, no shit, NINE Fans!) was quieter than most PC-style desktops. You only heard it if you really shoved the CPU cycles (e.g. rendering a highly complex 1080p-sized Bryce scene in a very hot room at full-rez w/ all options cranked to '11' would do it), or if you opened both outer and inner cases while it was running.
Sure, he'd probably eat a assault/battery charge (though getting a conviction off it is not 100% certain), and would have to buy a new pair of the things (which aren't cheap), but the rest is pure speculation. I daresay that once the full extent of what Glass can do is known (or projected) in a courtroom by any competent lawyer, most juries would probably have a hard time awarding anything to the newly Glass-less litigant beyond the replacement cost - no matter how pretty or distraught she may look.
There's a difference between not bothering to opt in and not consenting.
So, what gives you the right to drag them into something they likely know nothing about, let alone have enough information on it to give/deny their consent?
That pretty girl at the bar may not necessarily "opt in" to letting you bed her, and you have no idea whether or not she would consent to the act. If she knew your intentions and the nature of the results, the dynamic changes (ranging from disgust to agreement) - however, it does not give you the right to drag her to your house just to find out.
Just recognizing people on the street is perfectly OK, you do it all the time with your built-in eyes.
Way different concept there - let me put it in similar terms: you only recognize those people who have "opted in" and given you (or more specifically, that database behind your eyes) their personal information. Also note that the information those individuals give you is often incomplete.
GGP has a point, though - a sample of only 1,000 orbits (out of what, 4.5 billion?) isn't even acceptable by statistical standards when you're trying to determine what effect the Sun has on our climate.
It's like interviewing one toddler, then using the results to claim that all of North America really hates the taste of spinach.
In the video, it mentions re-oiling it. Odds are extremely good that they took a wire brush to it before the oil as well.
The parts are thick and rather durable, truth be told - unlike many combat rifles which have at least a few delicate parts (e.g. thin springs), the AK-47's parts are pretty damned beefy by comparison.
I think the only other rifle that can out-last it is the Mosin-Nagants (also Russian). I have an M-44 Carbine that is old enough to have shot at Nazis, and it still works w/o a hitch.
tangent-ville: I doubt it'll be governments who wind up escalating or owning the thing, but corporations. Odds are very good that someone will pull a Heinlein and get it declared an entity separate and distinct from any single nation's control. The only trick is to get the big boys (US, China, Russia) to sign off on it, but since all three are somewhat easily controllable by corporations...
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Rome, Greece, Egypt, and numerous other ancient empires/realms happily blended (and even absorbed) various pagan polytheistic belief systems (Rome was pretty famous for it, as was Ptolemaic Egypt.)
Even in ancient Jerusalem (post-Solomon, during Babylon's occupation, and while the Romans owned the joint) it wasn't uncommon to see smaller pagan temples scattered about town in the shadow of The Temple, and even here, there was a percentage of the local citizenry happily worshiping (or at least paying respects to) a combination of them all. This was common in all ancient cities, but I picked Jerusalem because it's usually considered to have the most devout population.
Ordinary people were pretty copacetic about the the whole thing back then - most strangers or traders who met peacefully got to know each other by trading any pertinent news, then comparing their gods, and then gossiping or speculating about this or that ruler/government/harvest/whatever.
I'm just curious where DOS/Windows fits into this - Scientology?
Ayn Rand is dead, so why the need for continued copyright on the book?
sibling is right... if it's so crappy, then why the need to rent-seek on them? Consider that the majority of the works' creators are dead by now (it's been 56 some-odd years), so it's not like they're directly benefiting from copyright. So who is benefiting? The kids, the corporations, and a whole lot of other people who did approximately bupkis to create these works.
Copyright is about a temporary monopoly on a creative work. It is emphatically not meant to be a perpetual money machine.
But a big desktop will outperform that big laptop, on a much larger screen, for a about a thousand dollars less, and over a permanently wired Ethernet connection that totally smokes your fastest WiFi.
Yep - but getting one past the TSA checkpoint at the airport, let alone asking the stewardess where I should plug it in? Not so useful. :)
Guess I should've been a bit clearer: I travel a lot. The laptop acts as my personal gaming box, CG workstation, on-the-go movie repository, music repository (until they make a 120GB SD card, the phone won't quite hold 'em all), Video conferencing device, VoIP station, portable development platform, VPN&RDP client (for those times when I have to pop into my work desktop for something), portable terminal device (w/ a USB-DB9 converter), and pretty much anything I want or need computer-wise while I'm out.
I still have a desktop sitting around the house, but it acts as a backup station and occasional render-farm slave node. Much more comfy sitting next to the missus on the couch while farting around on a laptop than sitting halfway across the first floor at a desk.
Well... netbooks are dead, so that's out. Not sure if the HP Mini is still around, but that's what I last had and it worked nicely w/ Ubuntu on it.
I think Dell and HP figured out that since consumers make up a tiny portion of their market, and since corporate models doesn't need all that much, well, screw making badassed laptops anymore... If Alienware wasn't so obsessed with size-uber-alles (for gaming), well...
(as per your request, I'll leave out mentioning the MB Air .)
Ye Gods...
At first I was about to demand your geek card for not using ABP and DoNotTrackMe browser extensions/add-ons. Then I saw the site.
Garish is word entirely insufficient to describe the crap layout of that website. Dunno who thought it would be somehow cool to replicate the Metro interface as a website, but whoever did should be taken out back and beaten senseless with a worn-out SCSI-2 full-height hard disk.
MacBook Pro != Mac Pro (or PowerMac for that matter).
Incidentally, my own MacBook Pro (July 2013) is extremely quiet, unless I kick LuxRender on (which will stress any damned laptop in existence.)
For most ordinary home users who go online to consume content and do brief chats/facebook/such, the answer can be a fairly easy "yes", so long as they're willing to ditch their old programs in exchange for apps. My wife did this in July by swapping to an iPad, and hasn't looked back. I think she used the bluetooth keyboard twice... meanwhile, it's replaced her PMP, camera, gaming console, and she watches movies with it on long road trips.
For crabby old tech types like me the answer is "hell no!" - I have way too much invested in CG/3D hobbyist bits and tools, I need the horsepower to render with, I type way too much, and in my estimation, screen real-estate is king. I'll stick with my MacBook Pro, thanks much.
In-between? Depends on whether or not you primarily consume content or primarily create it; therein lies your answer.
You mean the Scott expedition?
I'm waiting for the "First handstand-walk to the South Pole" achievement to be unlocked, myself.
Err, not really. If we're building a *nix ATM, then you can fix it in one go: If the USB port requires elevated privs just to mount/use anything plugged into it (say, a long numbered sequence entered from the ATM keypad, unique to that machine, that would translate to a variation of "sudo /bin/mount"), the whole USB stick trick falls flat.
Not sure if there would even be a feasible analog for that in embedded XP/CE/WE
Hell, show me a blade server with the non-video capabilities that cost less than 2x the MSRP of the new Mac Pro...
(...and Heaven help your bank account if that blade fits into a Cisco UCS chassis...)
It's obvious that you are grossly ignorant about Macs.
If the reviews are fully accurate (no reason to believe otherwise), the only thing quieter than the new Mac Pro would be the original Mac Cube (which had no cooling fans at all, so you only heard something if you held your ear reaally close to it...)
Hell, even my old dual 2004-era G5 PowerMac (with, no shit, NINE Fans!) was quieter than most PC-style desktops. You only heard it if you really shoved the CPU cycles (e.g. rendering a highly complex 1080p-sized Bryce scene in a very hot room at full-rez w/ all options cranked to '11' would do it), or if you opened both outer and inner cases while it was running.
Hrm.... wouldn't a low-tech solution such as one of those pointer lasers get the point across faster and cheaper?
So it'd be a database full of douchebags and teenagers.
Not really a useful cross-section of the economy, but okay...
Likely not as easy as that...
Sure, he'd probably eat a assault/battery charge (though getting a conviction off it is not 100% certain), and would have to buy a new pair of the things (which aren't cheap), but the rest is pure speculation. I daresay that once the full extent of what Glass can do is known (or projected) in a courtroom by any competent lawyer, most juries would probably have a hard time awarding anything to the newly Glass-less litigant beyond the replacement cost - no matter how pretty or distraught she may look.
There's a difference between not bothering to opt in and not consenting.
So, what gives you the right to drag them into something they likely know nothing about, let alone have enough information on it to give/deny their consent?
That pretty girl at the bar may not necessarily "opt in" to letting you bed her, and you have no idea whether or not she would consent to the act. If she knew your intentions and the nature of the results, the dynamic changes (ranging from disgust to agreement) - however, it does not give you the right to drag her to your house just to find out.
Just recognizing people on the street is perfectly OK, you do it all the time with your built-in eyes.
Way different concept there - let me put it in similar terms: you only recognize those people who have "opted in" and given you (or more specifically, that database behind your eyes) their personal information. Also note that the information those individuals give you is often incomplete.
Dude - way to throw a wet blanket on a joke. :/
GGP has a point, though - a sample of only 1,000 orbits (out of what, 4.5 billion?) isn't even acceptable by statistical standards when you're trying to determine what effect the Sun has on our climate.
It's like interviewing one toddler, then using the results to claim that all of North America really hates the taste of spinach.
Gets even better - Mars has no magnetic field to speak of, either.
In the video, it mentions re-oiling it. Odds are extremely good that they took a wire brush to it before the oil as well.
The parts are thick and rather durable, truth be told - unlike many combat rifles which have at least a few delicate parts (e.g. thin springs), the AK-47's parts are pretty damned beefy by comparison.
I think the only other rifle that can out-last it is the Mosin-Nagants (also Russian). I have an M-44 Carbine that is old enough to have shot at Nazis, and it still works w/o a hitch.
So it's somehow Linux' fault that your IT department wasn't competent enough to at least do some research and testing with the users first?
You do realize that a complete OS and app suite change is not as easy as just downloading a distro and installing it everywhere, right?
Sadly, AC is right... the friggin' thing is HUGE - it would take literal millennia upon millennia to mine even 1% of it away at current technology.
tangent-ville: I doubt it'll be governments who wind up escalating or owning the thing, but corporations. Odds are very good that someone will pull a Heinlein and get it declared an entity separate and distinct from any single nation's control. The only trick is to get the big boys (US, China, Russia) to sign off on it, but since all three are somewhat easily controllable by corporations...